Example sentences of "[adv] he [modal v] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he has to talk about his dog , before long he 'll be deadpanning his way through an entire history of his dog 's cousin Spot 's last tail operation . |
| 2 | Perhaps he would be speaking the truth and this small scene was repeated the length of the Nile . |
| 3 | Perhaps he 'll be sitting at home in Brighton next month not remembering a thing about it , perhaps in a year or two Sony or Akai will be marketing a small black box the size of a cigarette packet that cuts and scratches at the touch of a button . |
| 4 | Perhaps he will be taking up where Naas Botha , the South African outside-half , left off in American football next . |
| 5 | We have to put a shelf mark on the books so that we can shelve the book , but that tells us quite a lot about the subject , and if you start putting those three things together the librarian , as manager of his library , can start to put all this information together — in fact , the computer digests it for him — to give him an overview of how effective his operation is , when he should be buying extra copies , when perhaps he should be thinking of not buying quite so much , or being a little more selective . |
| 6 | In fact the computer digests it for him to give him and overview of how effective his operation is , when he should be buying extra copies , when perhaps he should be thinking of not buying quite so much , or being a little more selective . |
| 7 | So he 'll be joining |
| 8 | so he must be doing good work . |
| 9 | So he must be doing well must n't he ? |
| 10 | So he must be going , of gone in it |
| 11 | ‘ For if he did so he 'd be proving my word worthless . |
| 12 | Psychology expert John Street said : ‘ Outwardly , Prince William may look as though he 's coping , but inside he will be finding it very difficult . |
| 13 | You could only really believe it if the fire behind him was about 100 yards away he 'd be frying ! ’ |
| 14 | Billy Crystal has a perfect wife and beautiful daughter but feels rattrapped trying to support them , Daniel Stern is having an affair with a teenage supermarket assistant and has been reduced to pretending to sleep at social gatherings in order to avoid his nagging wife , and womanising Bruno Kirby has finally tied the knot with a glamorous bimbo half his age ( ‘ soon he 'll be dating sperm ’ , observes Crystal ) and agonises over whether he can stay faithful to her . |
| 15 | Soon he 'll be tugging his forelock . |
| 16 | But soon he 'll be trying out the shale and sand of Germany . |
| 17 | He gets old before his time , soon soon he 'll be sitting at home with a |
| 18 | The garden was very still , the bird-table empty , the room where the dying man lay as quiet and tranquil as the grave to which so soon he would be departing . |
| 19 | Soon he would be going out to start a new life . |
| 20 | He was unsure about whether he 'd be able to do this , and was also uncomfortable knowing that soon he 'd be performing merely to provide entertainment for Mandru and his guests . |
| 21 | Very soon he will be outfacing the all-powerful Darryl Zanuck and spurning a millionaire 's bribe while privately scheming to join that six-zero club . |
| 22 | The TV licensing authority in Bristol confirmed Mr Smart had been told that technically he 'd be breaking the law if he watched TV before receiving the new licence . |
| 23 | Thereafter he would be testing his hypothesis . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm staying at Dalian Atkinson 's house tonight and I might just have a little drink or two — hopefully he will be paying . |
| 25 | Reid has had a memorable season and as the big autumn events loom up he must be relishing a crack at races like the Prix de l'arc de Triomphe and the Champion Stakes . |
| 26 | ‘ That 's the worst part of it — now he 'll be showing us how to take corner kicks and how to score goals ! ’ |
| 27 | Any minute now he would be arriving , and she 'd promised her mother she 'd let her meet him . |
| 28 | Ten minutes from now he would be climbing the stairs in the dark . |
| 29 | Now he must be wondering how he is going to get through the week . |
| 30 | Where 's Ben only if he 's locked out he 'll be going hell like mad in a minute . |