Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [be] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By now I must be five years clear of her , and she said she 'd kill me if I ever told anyone her age . |
| 2 | I know , I should be eight foot six , but , I 'm working on it |
| 3 | How odd that I should be nine cents adrift |
| 4 | I sha n't let her do a thing , cause I 'll be two steps afront of her all the time . ’ |
| 5 | I 'll be about two mi I 'll be two seconds |
| 6 | ‘ Fine , I 'll be one minute . ’ |
| 7 | I 'll be five minutes . ’ |
| 8 | I 'll be five minutes . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I could be three seconds out , ’ said the Thing . |
| 10 | And so the first memories is in the meadows of Nottingham , going to infant school about the age do n't remember starting , but perhaps I 'd be six years of age , and it was a little church school and they were all lady teachers and most of them Mrs and not the Miss which is nowadays er more common . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd be ten years , about . |
| 12 | Back then , I naturally never thought I would be one day joining them as the support act . |
| 13 | ‘ Next year I shall be fifty years old . |
| 14 | ‘ In August , ’ she said suddenly , without changing the direction of her gaze , ‘ next August , I shall be ninety years old . ’ |
| 15 | A : I will be three months on November 8 . |
| 16 | I 've also heard Dr wishing to move a new five , Dr I think yours will be five B , and I call first of all on Mr . |
| 17 | Some of them might be sixty year old , John . |
| 18 | ‘ Bloody hell , ’ he breathed in admiration , ‘ you must be fifty pounds if you 're an ounce . ’ |
| 19 | he was greatly concerned , too , with getting the correct scale of things , emphasising that the eye can only see at one glance an object which in size is one-third of the distance between the object and that eye ; in other words if you are painting a man six feet high you should be 18 feet away from him . |
| 20 | And if you are medium-framed you should be 8 st 13 lb. |
| 21 | Well you could never , you could never rely on shipment , cos one time you 'd get a lot of shipment and the next time you might be six weeks and get no shipment , so who 's gon na pay them their money ? |
| 22 | Well one of you on cleaning fruit , getting all the stalks and stones out of the fruit , we used to have a sieve , not a riddle , a sieve with round , the wires were round in the sieve and you rub it , and the stalks would drop through and then you 'd put them out onto an iron baking sheet and sort out all the stones that and little bits that were in the fruit and you 'd be on cleaning fruit you might be one day , the other whichever one was the you 'd be cleaning and greasing baking tins , ready for the baker to put the cakes in or what have you , and then at night we used to grease all the bread tins ready for men to be allowed to drop the dough into the bread tins , and er stuff like that and cleaning up scrubbing down and |
| 23 | So in approximately one year you might be fourteen months or fifteen months ? |
| 24 | Understand your eating habits and you 'll be one step on the way to changing them . |
| 25 | She would be ten minutes . |
| 26 | Mindful of the stable-room boiler and the bucket , she gave him a brilliant smile as she stepped down and then she said , ‘ Twenty minutes , Murphy , ’ and he grimaced faintly again , as if to say he knew perfectly well she would be twenty minutes , ladies calling always were . |
| 27 | If we were to put you on a slimming diet providing you with 1,500 calories a day , you would be 500 calories short of your requirement and these would have to be taken from your body fat . |
| 28 | But if the actual pressure is , say , 990 mbs you would be 700 ft lower ( one millibar equals 30 ft ) . |
| 29 | She pulls over on to the hard shoulder , gets out , opens the boot , gets out the spare tyre and the jack , jacks up the car , takes off the old wheel , puts on the new one , lets the jack down , puts it and the wheel back in the boot , closes it , gets back in the car and drives on , knowing that she will be fifteen minutes late . |
| 30 | Maybe you will be one day , after you get rich prospecting the asteroids . ’ |