Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] be [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may be proved wrong , but I think they will be surprised at the change in the pace and intensity of international rugby since they 've been away . |
| 2 | I 'll be kept alive until then . |
| 3 | I 'll be left alone ! ’ |
| 4 | The case for Solaris on Intel , however , does not appear a strong one for Stuart at present , ‘ although I could be proven wrong ’ , he said . |
| 5 | ‘ When it came to the birth I wanted to feel I could be left alone but have supportive people around me . |
| 6 | If you think I 'd be seen dead in that you must be mad . |
| 7 | When Rose saw the table already set for morning , she said , ‘ If you were around for too long I 'd be spoiled rotten . |
| 8 | Then he 'd pinch my lines which , of course , I could n't repeat , so I 'd be left speechless . ’ |
| 9 | After travelling ‘ with knitting ’ for many years , I knew that I would be made welcome when I arrived . |
| 10 | Mummy , you must be mad if you think I would be seen dead in a yellow frock ! |
| 11 | At last it was decided that , as I had behaved so well up to now , I would be kept alive . |
| 12 | It might at any moment be lifted away from me utterly and I would be left exposed . |
| 13 | Now , nightly , when Leon had finished playing and had closed his door again , I would be left sleepless , confused by the force of my neglected senses . |
| 14 | I remember I would be told infantile stories , altogether appropriate to my infantile station . |
| 15 | His body was rich with the smell of sweat and kahlua and he sent me sprawling and hyper with untold hormones upon the bathroom tiles , but one day , suddenly , actually it was night , parked atop Mulholland Drive with the car windows steamed and the upright stick shift pressing painfully against my lower back and my head banging against the passenger door , I was paralysed by the heaving horny heaviness of him and my climax was full and first — first time ever — but followed by a limpness in my body , dull as the shade of putrid beige , and later I dreamed he had invaded me in sleep and crushed me with his broadness and with pillows , though Crilly it was not suffocation I feared , no , it was something more abstract , more bodily and carnivorous , something akin to nameless reptiles , and it was not so very different from the gun and the windbreaker blowing large and puffy about a stranger 's gut like a tent in my car at Pico Boulevard , and I so sure I would be found dismembered and crotchless and gory and absurd , strewn from limb to limb across the green tweed upholstery , unrecognisable in death , and again the windows steamed , the windows steamed with that hot clenched nameless fist inside me and the glide of cool metal against my neck , and then there were no thoughts , no words in my head , nothing . |
| 16 | Moreover , as soon as the English think I know the name of their traitor , I will be kept safe . ’ |
| 17 | Perhaps I will be thought outspoken , but so often it is those people who have moved into the country that complain . |
| 18 | When the last trump sounds and I stand before the Lord our God and am judged I will be found wanting and know not what to do . |
| 19 | Now I can be constipatied constipated and I can be the other way . |
| 20 | Now I can be constipatied constipated and I can be the other way . |
| 21 | So the group at Shepherd 's Bush has a way to go before some of them might be deemed fit to audition there or at other vocational schools . |
| 22 | 'E must be got warm . ’ |
| 23 | You may be granted Legal Aid subject to the payment of a financial contribution , usually payable by instalments . |
| 24 | Many dictate that you must give up your smelly , messy , untrained child-eater ( their opinion , not ours ) before you may be considered lucky enough to be offered lodgings . |
| 25 | In the days of the Raj , British passengers on the Rajputana State Railway received enviable attention : this handbook is a personalized itinerary for Miss Baring and warns her that she may be kept awake by one train driver 's ‘ unpleasant whistle ’ . |
| 26 | She may have become an international superstar , wined and dined with kings and presidents , prima ballerinas , film idols , pop legends and sporting heroes ; she may be ferried around in motorcades and private yachts and planes ; and she may be given priceless jewels to wear . |
| 27 | Alternatively , she may be allocated specific wards where she is responsible for all learners who work there . |
| 28 | One day she may be left alone and weeping in a cold grey city with people who do not care . ’ |
| 29 | He said that , you 're just , he , he , he said that it 's available to housewives but only if they erm , will be going back to work prior to the claim , but you must be employed prior to the claim . |
| 30 | I appreciate that Guitarist can not be held responsible for the extremely low quality of these tapes , but I feel that you should be made aware of the fact . |