Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] be [adj] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe if I 'd been able to do some kind of planche , like your painter friend did on your … back , it would have been easy , but what I had to do was first try to get something akin to an erection standing at the copier of a deserted office on a holiday . |
| 2 | Lots of men I know are prepared to take some time ensuring their children 's food is fresh and safe , once they understand the issues . ’ |
| 3 | I remember being unable to connect those grainy breasts and pubic hair with anything in my own life — flesh , for instance — but the image gave me a mysterious frisson which I mistakenly took for sex . |
| 4 | The convenor I think is willing to accept this . |
| 5 | Anyway , I knew what she was going through since I had been obliged to have all my top teeth out just before the storms started because they ached so much . |
| 6 | I had been accustomed to comfort all my life . |
| 7 | It was thus that I had been able to gain some sense of the sort of place Miss Kenton had gone to live her married life . |
| 8 | And since I believe that criticism can not be a substitute for the reading of the novel , I 've been content to sketch some of the general truths which I think lie behind it , and a familiarity with which would I think help to illuminate an eventual reading of À la recherche du temps perdu . |
| 9 | That 's all I 've been able to do all afternoon , sit here like bloody Mariana in the moated grange waiting for the telephone to ring . |
| 10 | ‘ They 've said he 's 100pc , so I 've been able to dispel any fears I had after the accident . ’ |
| 11 | The holy spirit gives us a new prospective on life and it , it , it deepens our relationship with God , we do n't have to try and make , make a success of our new Christian life by ourselves , you know it does n't matter whether you 've been a Christian for a week , for a day , for twenty , for fifty years , if you try to do it one day by yourself you are guaranteed failure , there is no way you can do it , it does n't matter how long you 've been a Christian or how short a period , you can not do it , if the great apostle Paul , he could , he said I can do nothing of myself he said I am not sufficient , for all my learning , for all the wonderful visions I 've had , for the knowledge that God has given to me , that I 've been able to write these great apostle 's , he says that I can not do it myself , I ca n't live this Christian life myself and the tremendous thing that none of us , no matter who we are , we do not have to try to make a success of our Christian life on our own , it 's a partnership and God is the senior partner in it , he does n't expect us to do it by ourselves , listen to what the , the , that , the same apostle Paul says when he 's writing to the , the Gelation Christians , in , in chapter two , verse twenty , listen to what he says there , he says I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me and the life which I know live in the flesh I live by faith in the son of God who loved me and delivered himself for me , he said I do n't do it by myself , why not , very simply cos he ca n't , he did n't know how to , he did n't have the power to do it he says but the life I 'm living , I live by the power of Christ who died for me , who gave himself for me and who now lives in me now by the holy spirit |
| 12 | Second time I 've been able to smell that . |
| 13 | up to a point I have been able to illustrate this theme by drawing attention to contrasts which are likely to be familiar to all my readers , e.g. the difference in modern Western societies between monetary and non-monetary exchanges . |
| 14 | I trust I have been able to dilute any misgivings that my letter may have stirred . |
| 15 | Over the years I have been able to spend many hours with individual singers . |
| 16 | ‘ Juliette and I have been able to help each other . |
| 17 | One or two of these names I have been able to trace such as that used in the Miller family of Upper Halling . |
| 18 | I try to ride last so I can stop now and then to be alone , to look back and be glad that I have been able to come this way , but Tony has the feeling too and has bagged the back spot for the morning run . |
| 19 | This may be so , but in the light of the difficulties inherent in the decision , the very clear decision in Reg. v. Lawrence [ 1972 ] A.C. 626 and the equally clear statement in Reg. v. Morris [ 1984 ] A.C. 320 that the question whether a contract is void or only voidable is irrelevant , I have been unable to reach any other conclusion . |
| 20 | I have been unable to book any more New , new mums groups as our group has recently got quite small as many of our members have returned to work . |
| 21 | He mentions dog 's tooth violets and despite an intensive search , I have been unable to find any . |
| 22 | Despite reference to seed catalogues and gardening books , I have been unable to find any information on its propagation , either from seed or from cuttings . |
| 23 | Both crabs died after about two months , but I have been unable to find any information on them . |
| 24 | The House of Lords alone proposed 569 amendments , and the Secretary of State for Education and Science , Kenneth Baker , said : ‘ I have been unable to find any measure since the war that has been more debated or had more parliamentary time allocated to it ’ . |
| 25 | Unfortunately I have been unable to trace any documents after the survey , and so do not know exactly why the scheme fell through or even whether the bill was ever presented . |
| 26 | Nobody has been able to substantiate that idea and Kitching ( 1977 ) cites instances in Spain and Scotland of enclaves with elongated shells feeding on mussels . |
| 27 | The other bearers took the traditional view that the right thing to do was for Yussuf to get rid of her and find another one ; but for reasons known only to himself Yussuf was reluctant to do this . |
| 28 | Already she has been able to list such exotic places as Mucky Lonnin , Swinsy and Never ‘ Eed Em Blacksmith . |
| 29 | She 'd been lucky to get this flat and at a reasonable price , for accommodation in Branchester was n't easy to find . |
| 30 | But maybe she 'd been wrong to accept this job , wrong to come . |