Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [adv] [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ACT-UP is the organisation I should most like to be part of . |
| 2 | If that is support for an industry , I should not like to be part of an industry that the Government were against . |
| 3 | He said I had probably done all I could ( little did he know ) , but that no one was omnipotent and I should not try to be for Jean-Claude what Maman had been — and still was , to some extent . |
| 4 | It 's a bad time , admitted , there 's truth in that , but I should n't choose to be out of it . |
| 5 | ‘ I should n't like to be able to do that . ’ |
| 6 | The thing is that I should so like to be the first to know , officially … ’ |
| 7 | Theoretically he does not intend to go back into practice as an accountant , but , he concedes pragmatically , ‘ at the end of the day , with a family , I might just have to be one , whether I like it or not ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's frustrating but I 'll just have to be patient . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 'll never get to be a good cook . |
| 10 | I thought we 'd been getting on pretty well but as Father 's Day approached , Joe made it clear that I could n't hope to be any more than just second best |
| 11 | I could n't bear to be married if I had n't … ‘ |
| 12 | ‘ In the end I could n't bear to be anywhere else , ’ she said , and added that if such practices had been going on in the islands as were alleged , everyone would have known about them . |
| 13 | At the time I could n't bear to be parted from my new little owl . |
| 14 | I could n't bear to be in its thrall for another day . |
| 15 | He just nodded as if he did n't want to speak , and then at the bottom ( it was vanity , I could n't bear to be lumped with Caroline ) I said , I 'm sorry my aunt said that at Kenwood . |
| 16 | How could I have possibly explained without hurting you that I could n't bear to be near you , because you no longer felt like my mother ? |
| 17 | ‘ I could n't bear to be separated from Jeff for three weeks . |
| 18 | And I could n't bear to be with women I did like because it reminded me forcibly that they did n't turn me on . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I could n't stand to be there . |
| 20 | ‘ I could n't fail to be , could I ? ’ |
| 21 | I could n't wait to be fourteen and be free of the place . |
| 22 | I could n't wait to be issued with a uniform as I stood out in my civilian clothes , which were much nicer than anybody else 's . |
| 23 | He maddened me , yet I could n't wait to be with him . ’ |
| 24 | I could n't seem to be bothered to move . |
| 25 | Mortal , I could not bear to be the one who slays the light . |
| 26 | But I could not bear to be supplanted in a view that lay next to my heart by an old acquaintance . |
| 27 | I could not bear to be in France a moment longer : my friends confirmed my impulse . |
| 28 | But I could only attain to be thrilled and enchanted , as by the sound of a strain of music dying away . |
| 29 | ‘ True , ’ said Phoebe , ‘ but I 'd probably get to be a Union Official immediately , owing to the lack of competition in the Bayswater Chapel , and then Graham would have to give me endless paid hours off to attend to Union Business . ’ |
| 30 | Sometimes I think I 'd just love to be alone with a nice book to read and a carol service on the wireless ! |