Example sentences of "you [modal v] be [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you MUST fix somewhere to stay before you arrive or you may be bounced back under their vagrancy laws . |
| 2 | If you are n't smiling , you may be cut out for economics . |
| 3 | You may be written off as a malingerer or a neurotic or , perhaps even worse , as someone who must be gently humoured back to health . |
| 4 | And when you do finally get to bed , you ca n't lock yourself in and you may be woken up at any time of the night on any pretext . |
| 5 | Some of you may be pissed off that the game was n't on R5 , but you ca n't be as pissed off as me . |
| 6 | ‘ You must be tired out , ’ she said at last , forgetting her own thwarted career in her concern for her sister . |
| 7 | ‘ We decided that you must be brought up apart from one another . |
| 8 | So next weekend when you come back off the induction you should be fired up , let's see what we 're really gon na to do here yeah . |
| 9 | Women as tempting as you should be kept out of the sight of mortal men . ’ |
| 10 | You should be turned round , that would help us . |
| 11 | Perhaps that was what mothers meant when they insisted you should change your underwear daily for fear you should be run over . |
| 12 | The Spanish laws against drug use in those days were exceptionally severe , and I was terrified in case you should be found out by the police or the drug squad . |
| 13 | Anyway , in a few months ’ time you might be called up . ’ |
| 14 | You might be locked up for a long time , or you might be given a fine , which is taken out of your weekly allowance . |
| 15 | Even in these supposedly progressive times , you might be passed over for promotion or unkindly treated because of your sex or racial origins . |
| 16 | ‘ It occurred to General Schellenberg that you might be caught out by the weather . ’ |
| 17 | You 'll be trampled on by everybody if you do n't look out . |
| 18 | If you 're stupid enough to try , you 'll be eaten up in five seconds . ’ |
| 19 | That , that 's a rational law , okay , it 's nothing to do with a taboo , there 's not some strange supernatural principle which says , in Savoy Street you drive on the other side , and if you do n't you 'll be struck down with a fever or ill luck or something like that . |
| 20 | You 'll be fed up then having me at home . |
| 21 | You 'll be tied down , and very sharp arrows will be shot into your eyes . |
| 22 | He says you have to be devoted or you 'll be kicked out ! |
| 23 | You 'll be whacked out on Sunday and in need of complete rest and masses of undisturbed peace and quiet so cancel plans . |
| 24 | Now remember Benny , the more you struggle the sooner you 'll be swallowed up , ’ she said to herself . |
| 25 | ‘ You behave or you 'll be locked up . |
| 26 | ‘ Or you 'll be laid up . |
| 27 | ‘ You 'll be allowed out on Saturday night , ’ said the corporal . |
| 28 | And then you 'll be finished off in the sculleries . |
| 29 | ‘ You 'll be snapped up in no time . ’ |
| 30 | If you should ever telephone the University , there 's a pretty fair chance that you 'll be put through to Jenny . |