Example sentences of "she [modal v] be on " in BNC.
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| 1 | She must be on the game , all right . |
| 2 | Born in 1930 , so she must be on the verge of retirement now . |
| 3 | This lady we 're on about now she 's she must be on forty , fifty a day . |
| 4 | I said well it 's funny how a friend of mine gets it , she says well she must be on Income Support with an underlying something like an , a different pension on top of her Income Support , which she is is n't she ? |
| 5 | He thought she might be on the point of offering him a nip of whisky but she did not go that far . |
| 6 | Yeah because Jenny might , she might be on a late . |
| 7 | she ai n't mate , she might be on the outside but she really ai n't , cos Penny 's such a lovely girl and I thought , and I thought , I 've seen Penny butter up |
| 8 | She 'll be on a bed somewhere , out of her skull . ’ |
| 9 | She 'll be on duty tomorrow . ’ |
| 10 | And she 'll be on a more restricted diet . |
| 11 | And she 'll be on a more restricted diet . |
| 12 | ‘ She could be on another floor . ’ |
| 13 | Put like that , it seemed a simple enough equation , and at least now , she thought , she could be on her guard , would not let anything get in the way of level-headed logic . |
| 14 | This only ought to take a couple of minutes , then she could be on her way to find out more about the attic . |
| 15 | ‘ She could be on leave , ’ he suggested evasively . |
| 16 | She looked as if she could be on the cover of a fashion magazine . |
| 17 | Suddenly too , as a kind of tension caught at her , she knew that while , because of her love for Ven , she could be on very shaky ground here , she must be brave , and stay no matter what , and hear him out . |
| 18 | and all of a sudden I developed she 'd be on the phone going , I 've just eaten mussels with vinegar in them . |
| 19 | I thought she 'd be on that one five minutes I 'll see what |
| 20 | And as soon as I went to get sprouts off a garden , she 'd be on there , wo n't she , would ? |
| 21 | Well she 'd be on a form , yes . |
| 22 | and every night she 'd be on it ! |
| 23 | If she took her problem to Rachel , Rachel would listen and she would be on Maggie 's side . |
| 24 | She would be on her way back from a reading at the weekend and passing through London . |
| 25 | When she pointed out this might mean she would be on her own yet again throughout another summer he shrugged and said it could not be helped and he had no choice . |
| 26 | Not that he wished any harm to Rose , and it was n't as if she would be on her own because , being the wife of Peter , and he the stable man , she was well set in their cottage . |
| 27 | Although Ruth now knew that she would be on the moor throughout the coming winter , and perhaps if she was lucky see the first , early signs of spring , she knew she was now taking her farewell of its chief beauty . |
| 28 | Emily smiled , her aunt could be a holy terror but tonight she would be on her best behaviour because the élite of the Swansea gentry would be at the Race Ball and Aunt Sophie had not found herself invited into the social circles lately , not since Craig 's arrest . |
| 29 | He had warned her that she would be on her own , with only the butler for company , until Saturday when he returned . |
| 30 | Nenna had no more than an animal 's sense of direction and distance , but it seemed to her that the right thing to do would be to try to reach the City , then , once she got to Blackfriars , she knew where the river was , and though that would be Lambeth Reach or King 's Reach , a long way downstream of the boats , still , once she had got to the river she would be on the way home . |