Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] now [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | Perhaps because I said that even if I returned I should now be shot for desertion . |
2 | I was terrified that , while he had taken a branch off the piste towards the town , I might now be heading towards Mali , a waterless eight hundred miles away . |
3 | If it were so , I would now be scratching the lumps and bumps on a very delicate area . ’ |
4 | Chris Patten Without the Winter of Discontent , I would now be running my third government . |
5 | With the same 14 mm bait I will now be using a size 4 and possibly a size 2 . |
6 | But if it had not been for Hillary Clinton 's TV performance and George Bush 's Japanese collapse , neither of them might now be ordering the removal vans . |
7 | You may now be thinking about what sorts of jobs you could do if you score high in any of the areas that we 've mentioned . |
8 | I hope that you may now be encouraged to experiment with weaving , and it may help you to use up those oddments of hand knitting yarn which you do n't have time to knit . |
9 | I have also enclosed an article to add to the considerable amount of reference material you should now be holding on this subject . |
10 | You should now be looking significantly slimmer and will no doubt be attracting some comments — hopefully , complimentary ones . |
11 | You should now be left with two acetate page markers , and everything else should be away in one of the binders , apart possibly from the dates . |
12 | It screwed me up thinking how the invalid 's hopes must have soared at the sound of my entry , and how she must now be falling into deeper and deeper misery because of the silence and the nothing happening . |
13 | Had it not been for the critical response to her work at the time , she might now be recorded differently in our history books . |
14 | If she had , she might now be wearing the crown of England instead of being holed up in Gloucester Castle , her supporters scattered and dwindling , and what little popularity she had once possessed destroyed by her own hand . |
15 | Had she not known Félix so well , Alice thought , touching the necklace at her throat , she might now be feeling as if there were some kind of trap closing slowly about her . |
16 | Maybe if she had she would now be planning her escape from Sardinia . |
17 | If he had n't posted bail for her she would now be preparing for her first night in jail . |
18 | If you had done as I said , and given the keys to the princess , you would now be dressed in silk , sitting at her left hand . |
19 | She will now be based in the Oxford branch and will report to branch manager Peter Caswell . |
20 | If you want to open a National Savings Investment or Ordinary Account at a post office , you will now be asked to give proof of your identity . |
21 | You will now be passing the garden wall on your right . |
22 | You will now be looking at the actual design which is to be etched into the copper foil . |
23 | You will now be feeling the psychological as well as the aerobic benefits of regular walking . |
24 | She can now be seen on general release in the Neil Jordan film The Crying Game , cast as an IRA terrorist . |
25 | We may now be seeing something of a revival of the reformative approach . |
26 | The question of er P P G thirteen and transportation I think is vitally important , York will come into the position that Chester er where I was just at a transportation enquiry recently , it 's a very similar sort of city , it 's not quite the same as Cambridge , where Cambridge is leaping ahead on quite , some would say draconian transportation measures , York in the forceable future will have to look at specialist transportation measures , that 's important in terms of the planning policy guidance that is out , it 's also in the white paper , it may be in draft P P G thirteen , it 's also in I think it 's P P G twenty two , renewable energy , that we should now be looking at developments which is closer to work , that links then to the question of sustainability and viability of a new settlement , I am not aware , and and I put it guardedly in those terms , of any significant employment existing or proposed in any of the new settlement proposals . |
27 | If , say , measles had shown such an increase , we should now be talking about a major epidemic . |
28 | The logical conclusion of all this is that there can no longer be a justification for the massive nuclear arsenals held by both sides , that only the absolute minimum of nuclear defence is required and that , because President Yeltsin , too , now has his finger on the nuclear button , we should now be doing business with him on this issue as on so many others . |
29 | Imagine our horror at the thought that we might now be held legally responsible for the tragic results of an inadequate diet . |
30 | As I say , we 're now , we shall now be working on the er , on a financial strategy , so that we 've got more detailed costings er , available to us , erm , but I think members will be interested to know that erm , within the next few months there will , we shall be taking part , er , as part of a wider national exercise , in an exercise undertaken by the District Audit Commission , on Children 's Services , so that we , I think we shall be in good stead , to have this as a base as a working document for that erm , Audit Commission exercise . |