Example sentences of "[modal v] be [verb] [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he should be giving you a million to three . |
| 2 | ‘ I might be asking you the same thing , my lord . ’ |
| 3 | I honestly do not think my child is encouraged in any way , possibly because his life is short … to take charge of his life and I think this might be giving him an unspoken message that you do n't count . |
| 4 | Next thing you 'll be telling me the little cow 's summoned up the ‘ forces of Evil ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ They 'll be makin' you a bleedin' colonel before you 've finished , ’ said Tommy . |
| 6 | In fact we 'll be sending you a small sum this time , for the difference . " |
| 7 | David Tait had arrived in New York in March , with the instructions to ‘ set up an airline ; we 'll be sending you a 747 a day in three months time ’ . |
| 8 | I take it you 'll be staying her a few days ? ’ |
| 9 | So — I 'll be writing you a boring letter about business matters , but ca n't we meet ? |
| 10 | So , in five minutes , I 'll be asking you the fifth and final question , which could result in you 're going out next month with Dougie Down Under , thanks to QUANTAS , Australia 's national airline . |
| 11 | By moving out of the way , we 'll be giving them a clear run . |
| 12 | And obviously Janet , you 'll be giving me the other one , so if you can take the time to look at it . |
| 13 | Naturally I do n't want to risk a recurrence of the trouble , but equally , I hate missing any Ireland match and I 'll be giving it a full blast in the final training session to make sure I 'm 100 per cent . |
| 14 | ‘ But you do realise that you 'll be doing it the hard way ? |
| 15 | If a thief steals it , you could be giving him an open invitation to your home ! |
| 16 | Her father 's loving- ( or lying- ) competition , designed though it may be to give her the best part of England ( which he is also giving himself , of course , since he intends to live in retirement with her ) , and revealing , in a way , his love for her , is nevertheless so constructed that she would have to compete with hypocrisy in order to win . |
| 17 | But this quality is balanced by the paradoxical notion that Bellay may be giving us a clearer view of what things are actually like , as though reality were an infinitely accessible enigma . |
| 18 | To make the assumption that JustText was only capable of producing text would be to do it a grave disservice . |
| 19 | A long-term , good investment would be to give him a separate building in which to tell the tale of twentieth-century art before the twentieth century is quite at an end . |
| 20 | They confirmed that Laura 's best hope of life would be to give her a new bowel , stomach , pancreas , liver and kidneys . |
| 21 | Nobody would be calling it an isolated or random act . |
| 22 | The ‘ opposition ’ governors imagine themselves to be more important than they really are ; they have state , not federal , responsibilities ; their comments on federal matters should therefore not be regarded as of primary importance ; and , if they were reported fully at all times , this would be giving them a greater prominence in national affairs than they deserve . |
| 23 | But I think I would be giving you the wrong impression if I suggested that most of the evaluation studies with which I 've been concerned have involved this kind of conclusion , or this kind of result . |
| 24 | I , I would totally support the move that you 're suggesting Mr Chairman , if we are asked to provide another one percent or whatever can be done , erm , I would suggest that the obvious way to get that money would be to offer them the ten thousand that we agreed to spend this morning . |
| 25 | Next Sunday we shall be bringing you the last Ideas in Action programme before Christmas . |
| 26 | ‘ My reward will be to give them the final yellow jersey in Manchester . ’ |
| 27 | The guitars were both made by Matthew at Chandler Guitars in London , amid some secrecy , and hopefully we will be bringing you the full story of their genesis soon . |
| 28 | And if racing round the world was n't enough , these half million pound yachts will be tackling it the wrong way — against the winds and currents , to commemorate the first time it was done 21 years ago by British sailor Chay Blyth . |
| 29 | well — we are sixth from bottom and I guess Pool will be giving us a hard time at Anfield after loosing against Spurs . |
| 30 | Diane is a DesignaKnit dealer and she will be demonstrating it a various events , including the Webbington Show at the end of October . |