Example sentences of "that i [modal v] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er and she said he enjoys it and he goes to playgroup I think he must go to Dennington playgroup cos he 's going to Dennington school , and he enjoys sitting down and being , likes looking at books and he 's started writing and she said actually she said I 'm really panicking because I 'm frightened that I might be teaching him wrong and that I 'm I said well why do n't you pop in and have a word at the school ? |
| 2 | I HAVE recently become a vegetarian but am worried because I 'm told that I might be missing out on iron in my diet ? |
| 3 | But the whole incident has depressed me and for the first time since being diagnosed it occurs to me that I might be dying . |
| 4 | Yet , despite the desperate fatigue and the fear that I might be making a fool of myself , I was seized with a curious elation that kept me going . |
| 5 | I waved Maureen off the next day , telling her I could n't wait to see her again , that I would be counting the days till her return . |
| 6 | When the girl at the reception desk discovered that I would be leaving early in the morning , she insisted on refunding £2 , since I would be on the road before she arrived to cook breakfast . |
| 7 | Friends who were not knitters had been amazed that I had never met any of the people that I would be staying with . |
| 8 | I told the housekeeper that I would be staying for several days , and then went straight to my aunt 's room . |
| 9 | ‘ He may not be your favourite person at the moment , but Adam did invite me and it is his home that I would be wandering about in . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Dad , ’ she accused , ‘ you never told me that I would be sharing the house with some carpenter . ’ |
| 11 | When I graduated in Economic and Social History from Bristol in 1982 I had no idea that I would be earning my living as a thatcher , one of the few women working in that field , some eight years later . |
| 12 | ‘ You did n't convince Burun to let me lead it by telling him that I would be looking for machines , ’ he said finally . |
| 13 | Probably five eight rather than cos yeah I erm okay see erm right right right erm , so the thing that I would be looking for , if I could find this , would be what 's doing the colouring and how , how does that work ? |
| 14 | ‘ If someone had told me five years ago that I would be living amongst murderers , I would not have believed it . |
| 15 | In addition to that you get depreciation of one thousand one hundred and forty four pound per year which , by my reckoning is ninety five pound a month in addition to that , as a Methodist Minister you get a standing charge of five hundred and twenty eight pound per year which is forty four pound pe er , per month and then you also through i in the year if you have a major repair needed on your car you get a hundred and eight pound now , if in fact , I had , I have a Vauxhall Nova , and let me take these figures as you are at twenty four P a mile , or twenty four point five P a mile and if that 's all we are recommended , recommending , in other words , there 's no lump sum at all er , that would mean that I would be getting forty nine pound but Methodist , this colleague in Llandudno if he did |
| 16 | ‘ It was n't until the national squad session the following day that Ian McGeechan announced that I would be playing against England . |
| 17 | The adjoining suite of offices where I reported was inadequately sound-proofed , so that I felt myself both surrounded and shot through by the very processes that I would be attempting to market . |
| 18 | There were no decent men on my own horizons and I already feared that I would be spending my life alone . |
| 19 | As a headteacher of a state primary school I was immediately aware that I would be asking the staff who worked with me to take on new responsibilities . |
| 20 | I think I told you some months ago that I would be asking you to consider that |
| 21 | I was beginning to think that I would be going home fishless when I found myself singing , ‘ He shall feed his flock ’ ; and fell to musing upon how well I would be able to feed five , let alone five thousand , given the reluctance of the fish to show even a snout above the surface . |
| 22 | ‘ I had no doubt that I would be going back to the university , ’ he says from his home in Princeton , New Jersey . |
| 23 | He glanced up at the sky and remarked : ‘ There 's nowhere to go at this time of night ’ , at which I said that I would be going home , and moved off to the right . |
| 24 | Is it something that I would be walking about with , or ? |
| 25 | Knowing that I would be visiting Australia on a project which did not actually take me to Sydney , yet sensing the need for images for general library use , I talked the matter over with my agent . |
| 26 | Knowing that I would be visiting Australia on a project which did not actually take me to Sydney , yet sensing the need for images for general library use . |
| 27 | I was doing things I knew that I would be doing properly in a few years . |
| 28 | Eric , I reported to the C E C on Saturday night when presenting the , the Health Service Conference report , that I would be making a detailed report to the next er , meeting of the Public Services Section Committee on resources er , on what I see in the first five month of my er , ten year of office er , what , what we need to do , to play our part in the public service , to extend ourselves within the er , the Health Service . |
| 29 | My father taught me that there is only one thing more boring in life than listening to other people 's dreams and that is listening to stories about their operations ; and I only tell mine now because those I had during the early 1980s are as good an example as any of how modern medicine has helped to prolong life ; without them it is unlikely that I would be sitting here writing this . |
| 30 | It might strengthen my case to appeal to apparently neutral , non-political standards but I do not suppose that I would be saying anything useful about the nature of cognition . |