Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] be [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I now come to a very controversial point on which I may be in a minority , but I think there is far too much written material with classical CDs . |
| 2 | Even though I may be in a minority , I feel quite strongly that the job of the record companies is to issue recordings of music at prices the music loving public can afford — not to enhance that price by paying for learned disquisitions seeking to explain what ought to need no explanation . |
| 3 | I may be in a murderous place , but I am in a sensible country . |
| 4 | I am not looking for money , just a deep involvement and I must be worth a telephone call . |
| 5 | Goodness , I must be in a state of trauma to have forgotten that none of them had drunk either at lunch-time or in the afternoon . ’ |
| 6 | I should be on a golf course really ! |
| 7 | So hopefully by the erm , I should be in a position by the next Council meeting , to report that we should be in a position to be up and running on the seventeenth of January . |
| 8 | Only a little tiddy bit , I might be on a diet you try and get rid of it ? |
| 9 | Erm I bore people , I might be at a dinner , I say look , what about irony and sarcasm ? |
| 10 | Mrs Webster said that she came into my bedroom several times , fearing I might be in a coma ! |
| 11 | And in a year or two perhaps I might be in a position to take you up on it . " |
| 12 | Assuming this to be true , I thought that Brian and I might be in a better position . |
| 13 | If I want to but I wo n't cos I 'll be on a hundred and fifty a month anyway . |
| 14 | Er — I ca n't come on the Saturday night — I 've promised Ricci I 'll be at a charity for — er — er — for Dressings for — er — wounded people in remote areas of er — Olympia . ’ |
| 15 | If Ember 'll teach me how to sort this God-blasted bluelight out , I 'll be in a better position . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'll be in a little late this morning , ’ she said . |
| 17 | I 'll be in a position tonight , perhaps after some discussion , to make a recommendation one way or the other . |
| 18 | I might write a book , I could be in a movie , I could become a photographer , I might sing … ‘ |
| 19 | And once I got my A.S.O. I 'd be on a scientific grade and could work myself up . |
| 20 | I could n't know I 'd be on a murder case . " |
| 21 | I did n't realize you 'd o you had n't said that I 'd be off a couple |
| 22 | As for me , I had to wait the whole summer and into the late autumn for rehearsals of The Jungle Book to begin , so I went back to South London , happy in the knowledge that soon I 'd be in a professional production and there 'd be someone in the cast for me to fall in love with . |
| 23 | I 'd be in a club till 2 o'clock in the morning and then come home , sit down and be bored until the morning started and then I 'd be walking round , taking the dog for a walk in the park . |
| 24 | " I always knew I 'd be in a book one day , " she said , reaching once more for Debonair , " and now , John , that dream has been realized . " |
| 25 | Then I got myself dressed so that I 'd be in a fit state when the ambulance men arrived . |
| 26 | I 'd be in a right state without it . ’ |
| 27 | I would n't dare eat them I 'd be in a terrible state . |
| 28 | As the campaign proceeded , I kept quiet as I began to have a vision of some grisly post-polling day ceremony in which I would be on a platform like a performance artist from the sixties , vomiting and gagging while attempting to ingest yet another page : ‘ You 're doing okay . |
| 29 | Let's say a former Salford student or even faculty member wanted to visit the States for three weeks , maybe I would be in a position to provide some ( rental ) accommodation for a fraction of the cost of a hotel or package deal . |
| 30 | I asked because I wanted to know if I would be in a job if Sharon was in a position to employ me . |