Example sentences of "she [modal v] [adv] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in fact , he or she may well be in a privileged position . |
| 2 | ‘ She may still be at lunch , ’ she said . |
| 3 | She was sold in Middlesex ( Southall area ) on Wed 21st August , and I believe she may still be in the Middx , Berks or Bucks area . |
| 4 | If a woman is to be taken seriously she must either be past the menopause or very plain , preferably both . |
| 5 | You know that , ’ she replied , and discovered that Travis , more interested in his love-life than hers , wanted to talk about Rosemary and how much he missed seeing her and the fact that he had been so lonesome for her that he 'd phoned her flat several times yesterday evening and , receiving no reply , had realised she must still be at her parents ' home . |
| 6 | Dawn 's words re-echoed in her mind , in spite of the fact that Robert had derided them so vehemently , and she felt that she must always be on her guard . |
| 7 | She should also be at school , and Noreen threatened to send her back to Uncle Michael who would take her to school every day , if she did n't stop going on about coming to the theatre . |
| 8 | If there was a space she might even be on time . |
| 9 | She might even be like Miss Lavant . |
| 10 | ‘ Is this because of Doreen — because she 'll soon be with you ? ’ |
| 11 | Yeah probably I think she 'll always be like it though , cos her mum 's just the same , she 's just like her mum , you know her mum got in a strop every day because she could n't go round , down the |
| 12 | Given the prospect that that her father is actually the father of this child do you that she 'll still be at home ? |
| 13 | She 'll still be in Manchester . |
| 14 | At that rate she 'd soon be through the wood and gone . |
| 15 | Yo , you 'd only got to tell mother and she 'd soon be after him ! |
| 16 | But the notion , once born , firmly took root , refusing to let her settle , and as she wandered aimlessly about the living-room she realised she 'd soon be in danger of going stir-crazy if she had to look at the same four walls much longer . |
| 17 | If the champagne bottle had survived she 'd probably be in that state anyway , and it would at least postpone the inevitable for a while ; she did n't feel up to coping with the consequences of her behaviour just yet . |
| 18 | I should have known that she 'd still be with you . ’ |
| 19 | She 'd still be in there , under the kitchen table , and number seven — Mother of God , that was hers ! |
| 20 | No , she 'd still be in that place , being handled by those young louts . |
| 21 | On a particularly difficult issue she had a habit of canvassing everyone privately , except the person directly involved , so that when the matter was finally aired she would already be in command of all views . |
| 22 | They shook hands and Rufus wished her a pleasant journey home to Sevenoaks , she would just be in time to avoid the rush . |
| 23 | The yellow steps rose in steep flights but now it was clear that when she reached the top she would also be at the bottom , starting out . |
| 24 | She would probably be on the loo reading the paper , he thought to himself . |
| 25 | Even though I knew she would soon be in England , I also knew that she was n't going to live with us but with my cousins in Nottingham , and I guess I was sad about that . |
| 26 | She could think only that she would rather be in Paris . |
| 27 | Even the enthusiasm of a Maury Temerlin ( 1976 ) does not tempt him to attribute this level of sophistication to Ameslan Lucy ; in part , for the obvious reason , that she would then be at risk to what is on the other side of this coin — moral guilt . |
| 28 | If she had told him then , or even when the man had reappeared in her life at Helmsley she would now be on firmer ground . |
| 29 | Reminding her that she would still be in full control at all times , I asked her whether it was not worth trying the technique to see what happened . |
| 30 | The result was that when Bollaert finally made his speech on 10 September it was obvious that , for all the rhetoric and for all the idealization of the French Union , if it was independence that France was offering , it was so heavily circumscribed as to make it obvious that France had , at most , transferred the Jacobin concept of ‘ the nation one and indivisible ’ to a French Union in which she would still be in a commanding position . |