Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [be] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it is right that everyone should be given the freedom to choose whether or not they want to work in a smoking or non-smoking office and separate areas created to cater for both factions . |
| 2 | ‘ I may be leaving the show . ’ |
| 3 | PS : If anyone thinks that I may be overstating the Hart boy 's case then listen to his blindingly good solo album , ‘ Intolerance ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ The Syrians and ourselves should be fighting the Zionists together . |
| 5 | If he does , someone should be facing the axe at the end of this season . |
| 6 | ‘ But surely someone should be carrying the can for everything that 's gone on . ’ |
| 7 | In the interest of fairness and the protection of fellow reviewers , I must be allowed the right of reply to Martin Collins ' extraordinary outburst ( Mail , Sept ) in response to my review of his book Classic Walks in the Peak District . |
| 8 | I was wrapped up to the eyes when I went u down to put my walking boots on as well because they 're comfortable and there were people going going round in their shellsuits and you know I must be feeling the cold more now . |
| 9 | Right now I should be putting the frighteners on the lot of them — by flinging Rainbow back behind the wheel , and sending the taxi southwards down the northbound carriageway at a speed so fast that all the aunties ' lives flash in a whizzing 360-degree pan before their eyes , or by rendering the whole equipage airborne while the driver uses the remnants of her chopped-chicken-liver-on-rye to strafe the unsuspecting Anglicans of Wherwell , Winchester and Nether Wallop . |
| 10 | I think I should be making the tea or I 'll fall asleep in the bloody chair |
| 11 | Yeah , but Jeff I might be getting the real thing tonight , er , ah , you 'll be |
| 12 | Conceivably I might be misreporting the whole situation . |
| 13 | But I 'll be sending the boys with Freely , one of my temporary people . |
| 14 | A television play or four weeks away in repertory was OK , but I finally lost my agent when I turned down an interview for a job in June , ‘ because I 'll be picking the gooseberries ’ . |
| 15 | I 'll be telling the others in the morning . |
| 16 | I 'll be taking the Metro mum 's . |
| 17 | I 'm not very interested in that and in any case I would n't be able to look at it , I 'll be getting the dinner |
| 18 | ‘ I 'll be watching the seasons change out of my dressing-room window : I 'm doing it to test my patience , ’ says Gordon , disappointed only that her love of travel must be momentarily put on hold . |
| 19 | I 'll be helping the Imperium a little , wo n't I ? ’ |
| 20 | As he landed heavily on the linoleum , the doctor called to him : ‘ Tell her I 'll be paying the ten shillings or she wo n't come . ’ |
| 21 | I 'll be casing the area where she 's supposed to meet this guy . |
| 22 | ‘ Hopefully , I 'll be doing the next Lemonheads album , ’ he says , with exactly the right amount of carelessness , ‘ but I really have to go and do my own thing as well . |
| 23 | Will it be me and Dave that are doing the interviews then , cos he 'll be doing the what is it the race relations side and no doubt I 'll be doing the |
| 24 | Yes , and I 've broken it up into parts , I 'll be doing the same with Bernard and Tony , incidentally . |
| 25 | I 'll be running the other way you 'd think there 'd be loads of people going to pubs and stuff would n't you ? |
| 26 | I 'll be investigating the privatisation of canal-side assets by British Waterways . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's either that or I 'll be spending the next million years in a coal measure . |
| 28 | And given the fact do n't forget , it 's always worth remembering this and I 've I 've made , I 'll be making the point later on . |
| 29 | I 'll be laughing the other side . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'll be leading the first bird-watching tour in just four days . |