Example sentences of "he [vb mod] be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he 's on P O A and he should be on net list , we need to change it , if he 's on |
| 2 | So he should be in high spirits now ; he 'll be in three airports before the day 's over . |
| 3 | Jim Martin looks like he should be in Thin Lizzy . |
| 4 | He must be past thirty now , but she would never have believed he could have grown to make such a gross figure of a man . |
| 5 | He said , ‘ There 's absolutely nothing to see and it 's awfully full of nettles ’ ; at the same moment Jean Powers was saying noisily that not a solitary soul had been into the Britches in years and the village wondered what Edward got up to in there — ha ha ! — some people said he must be into black magic , or maybe he was growing cannabis . |
| 6 | He must be near nine inches long . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ He must be in one of the containers down there . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Oh Christ , he must be in one of the paddocks or the garden . ’ |
| 9 | That is rather a ponderous way of saying that no one in his right mind doubts the truth of my assertion about the states in which Bill will be found , because there are two of them and he must be in one or the other . |
| 10 | He must be in one of the Coptic parts of the city . ’ |
| 11 | He must be inside that tarted-up colony camp . |
| 12 | Vologsky took over control again , knowing that he must be within twenty miles of the outer warning ring around Alma-Ata . |
| 13 | He 'll be by later . ’ |
| 14 | Hello seven three one eight , no Roger 's off duty at the moment it 's Chris here erm , he should be , hang on I 'll just have to look at the watch roster and check up on precisely what his movements are , erm just look through tomorrow and I can find the right page in the roster here , er , two thir yeah , he 'll be on tower , so he 'll be in first thing tomorrow from about seven , seven o'clock onwards . |
| 15 | And if your victim happens to be conveniently close to the edge of a tall cliff , by the time he 's bounced down a couple of hundred metres on to the rocks , he 'll be in such a mess that the injury from the blow stands a good chance of being overlooked . |
| 16 | He 's out at the moment but he 'll be in later and he 'll phone either tonight or in the morning . ’ |
| 17 | I do n't think he 'll be in any fit condition to do it every morning anyway . |
| 18 | So he should be in high spirits now ; he 'll be in three airports before the day 's over . |
| 19 | ‘ Good luck , ’ he murmured , and then suggested that he might be of further help to her . |
| 20 | Attractive he might be to some people , but he was out of her league and anyway , she was n't interested . |
| 21 | ACROSS 1 Give bad reviews to dumb show — he might be in this ( 9 ) 6 Old-time US lawyer and rocker ( 5 ) 9 Reversing of French vehicle went quickly ( 5 ) 10 Dynamic object contains fungus ( 9 ) 11 Main entrance where he went Up the third time ? ( 3,5 ) 12 Baldwin shortly takes on church position ( 6 ) 14 The man himself ( 7,6 ) 16 New sandpit from E. Europe used to treat shoes ( 4,3,6 ) 21 Gauges placing a thousand rows ( 6 ) 22 Seller hears another way to say in other words ( 8 ) 25 Phone round Esquire readers with article on things observed ( 9 ) 26 One lady posed as the one with tattoos ( 5 ) 27 Equipment in ship for sketches he 's appeared in ( 5 ) 28 One put her away immediately ( 9 ) |
| 22 | Gregson glanced at the clock on the dashboard and estimated that he could be at New Scotland Yard in less than thirty minutes , traffic permitting . |
| 23 | The fearsome riots that swept the inner cities in 1981 , in Brixton first , then Toxteth and Hansworth , Moss Side and Bristol , came as no surprise , and convinced Charles that this was the area where he could be of some use . |
| 24 | He had found milk at the ā gri 's house and the old man had come back with him to see if he could be of any use . |
| 25 | He could be in two , or three , places at the same time . |
| 26 | He could be in one place , and his voice could come from another place . |
| 27 | He 'd be with some woman , no doubt , a man like that . |
| 28 | Whether or not he 'd be of similar help in the present case , Lewis did n't know , of course . |
| 29 | Lee ( ’ if he was a footballer he 'd be worth millions ’ says Watkins ) skates in Italy next month with club members and British dance champions David Samson and Adele Warner . |
| 30 | It made her feel she had to stay there or else he 'd be in worse trouble . ’ |