Example sentences of "he [modal v] be by " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'll be by later . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ He is n't fit now but he could be by Sunday , ’ added Wilkinson . |
| 3 | Queen 's student Donnelly excelled at Lurgan and won his first Northern Ireland Cross Country title a few weeks ago , but is still not fully fit , although he could be by the time of the Belfast race . |
| 4 | While those who had gone back to Braithwaite 's mill had been picked out of the crowd by wild little Oliver Rattrie , the eldest Rattrie boy — nineteen or twenty she supposed he 'd be by now — the twisted , crook-shouldered lad who had done more talking of pikes and pistols and bloody revolution than anybody else at the meetings in her back-yard . |
| 5 | Moreover where the issue really does raise a question of esoteric university ‘ lore ’ the courts are unlikely to override the decision of the visitor , informed as he will be by the university authorities . |