Example sentences of "[modal v] be [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man who constantly criticises may be trying to change you into the person he wants you to be , when he should be loving you for the person you are . |
| 2 | But not too many of those who reckoned she should be pitting herself alongside the professionals recognised that she was putting herself through a far tougher ordeal by playing in a junior championship where she had everything to lose , nothing to gain . |
| 3 | We should be asking ourselves about the character of individuals which are being produced by the family forms that we have today and about law 's part in creating the domestic group . |
| 4 | Distillery played with great spirit but Crusaders must be kicking themselves for the chances they threw away . |
| 5 | Whereas in Los Angeles I manipulated costly hot and cold water in appropriate vessels throughout the house , Bali is a network of streams and rivers which , like veins and arteries , must be distinguished one from the other for their various uses . |
| 6 | Chat magazine said : ‘ A lot of people must be doing it in the afternoon . ’ |
| 7 | What might be watching him from the shadows ? |
| 8 | ‘ You 're not stupid , and neither are we , although you might be doubting it at the moment . |
| 9 | It moulded itself about her waist and it felt warm and rather safe , as if it might be armouring her against the evils in here . |
| 10 | A good dancing tune now , or else you might be dancing yourself on the end of a rope . ’ |
| 11 | Michael Middleton has argued that Minton 's search for stimuli in exotic places and his febrile manner of living reflects a longing to escape self-consciousness and to live in the moment : ‘ He was for ever dashing off , afraid he might be missing something round the corner — another party , an evening at the Jazz Club , a drink on the Soho circuit . ’ |
| 12 | All the girls 'll be chasing you down the road . |
| 13 | He 'll be telling them about the pressures of being a superstar living in Hollywood ! |
| 14 | Another minute and I 'll be inviting you into the back of the car . ’ |
| 15 | They 'll be expecting us in the house . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ He can operate as a defender , a sweeper or a midfielder , and I 'll be using him in the midfield role . |
| 17 | I 'll be seeing him before the match . |
| 18 | Well I 'll be contacting them in the next fortnight er if and to make be able to pass on my card , I 'll leave you two cards so that they , they know to expect a phone call from myself . |
| 19 | But I do n't mind telling young Mike here about it seeing he 'll be joining me in the business one day . ’ |
| 20 | I 'll be needing it for the rest of the day , ’ Bishop said . |
| 21 | well if you think you might get some money at the end of the season , he said , you may find that you 'll be paying them at the end of the season ! |
| 22 | They 'll be teasing us in the club mother wo n't they ? |
| 23 | " Step inside and no tricks now , or they 'll be scraping you off the street . " |
| 24 | Because I 'll be doing it for the rest of my life now . |
| 25 | The gulls can see the help and benefit they receive from Iago 's service , but can not see , or conceive , that Iago could be benefiting himself at the same time ; and no one could possibly see that Iago is in fact benefiting himself by destroying them . |
| 26 | While 4 glasses of wine is considered safe , more than that could be taking you into the danger area of getting cirrhosis of the liver . |
| 27 | I could be putting him on the spot . |
| 28 | To get out of the car to peer beneath its bonnet was not going to get her anywhere either , she knew in advance , because with her lack of mechanical knowledge the fault could be staring her in the face and she would never recognise it . |
| 29 | Even if the arrangement within each class was a branching tree , the classes themselves could be set one above the other to form a continuous sequence . |
| 30 | Friends remarked that it was a measure of Branson 's single-minded approach to conversation that you could be regaling him with the most scandalous piece of tittle-tattle in London and he would turn on his heel and walk away , leaving you talking to thin air , while he made yet another telephone call about business . |