Example sentences of "he [modal v] be [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Matthew Burke , who toured Britain with the 1990 Australian Schoolboy team , is a brilliant young player and he may be used at fullback . |
| 2 | An " accommodated " child is not in care and as a general rule he may be removed at any time without prior notice . |
| 3 | At first sight , Weir may look as if he should be jumping at four in an LS Lowry Matchstick XV but the gangling Scot is an awful lot tougher than he appears . |
| 4 | If the boy would not listen to poetry , then he should be forced at least to understand some grammar . |
| 5 | The Scottish bishops of this period were normally consecrated by the archbishop of York , and there was no protest against this practice until 1120 , when Anselm 's disciple Eadmer , having received the bishopric of St Andrews , attempted to insist that he should be consecrated at Canterbury . |
| 6 | Section 29 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 ( P. & C.E. Act ) provides that he should be informed at once that he is under arrest if a decision is taken to prevent him leaving at will . |
| 7 | His face was in darkness , but he must be looking at her . |
| 8 | However , as she walked she felt he must be looking at her back as she walked away . |
| 9 | ‘ He must be working at something good . ’ |
| 10 | He must be chuckling at his new image . |
| 11 | And Rozario looks in trouble at the moment he is just er limping around he 's sunk back to his er hands on his knees again and well look at that he you do n't really need words to describe how he must be feeling at the moment . |
| 12 | Nigel Rolnis found out … and in April he 'll be looking at the other end of the market , £6,000 . |
| 13 | Harvey said , ‘ This is Mr Dempsey , he 's coming to see you tomorrow and he 'll be staying at the Hotel Riga . ’ |
| 14 | If successful there , he 'll be sent at Ireland 's expense to the British championships in Coventry a month later . |
| 15 | If he says his serving-maid he 'll be laughed at ; if he tells the truth — ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He gets old before his time , soon soon he 'll be sitting at home with a |
| 18 | In the meantime he 'll be held at Fairmile secure hospital at Wallingford . |
| 19 | The seminar organizers are Robert Osborne , who 's just crept in , Judy Rainer — I wonder where Judy 's sitting — with the hand Ivor Bertram who has n't arrived yet , he 'll be arriving at lunchtime , and myself . |
| 20 | He 'll be waiting at the station and we ca n't make it now . |
| 21 | ‘ He 'll be waiting at the church for you , every day for an hour between noon … ’ |
| 22 | He might be staying at Southampton , Long Island , with an American newspaper tycoon , or visiting distant American cousins at Newport . |
| 23 | She mused , but without real curiosity , on what he might be doing at this very moment to that unknown cadaver , young or old , male or female . |
| 24 | He has a tutor , a retired teacher who visits the house for mathematics and is following a traditional and largely irrelevant course in it ( such as he might be following at school ) and he is learning quite sufficient about mathematics in context apart from that ( shades of Cockcroft ! ) |
| 25 | After all , he knew Mr Parnham better than she did and he did n't look as if he could be fooled at all . |
| 26 | Although he could be seen at rehearsals of his shows in small English towns , Tiller was an international name now . |
| 27 | ‘ He could be killed at any time . |
| 28 | He could be looking at a device which at any moment could be activated by a radio-operated switch . |
| 29 | If David Cork carries on playing like that , then he could be looking at a new contract instead of being on the transfer list . |
| 30 | They thought he could be used at some time in the future even better internationally than locally . |