Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] be [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have been taking a lot of coal out these last few days , everyone has been putting the hours in . |
| 2 | The number of images per second needed to make them merge is called the flicker fusion frequency . |
| 3 | What I advocate is exuding an aura of femaleness . |
| 4 | See I 've been getting a kind of rash on my face |
| 5 | The part of the convent in which I lived was called the noviceship . |
| 6 | If a pet cat has access to the garage where someone has been filling the car 's radiator system with antifreeze at the onset of winter , the animal may see a small puddle on the garage floor , where some has spilled . |
| 7 | ‘ The figures mean that someone has been defrauding the company and it was n't Craig Grenfell because if you look at the dates you 'll see that the fiddling went on even when Craig was in prison . ’ |
| 8 | What I propose is to examine the impact of notions of racial hierarchy , racial exclusion , and racial vulnerability and availability on non-blacks who held , resisted , explored , or altered those notions . |
| 9 | He bragged to friends : ‘ All I want is to kill a copper . |
| 10 | Nicholas Vernage told a friend : ‘ All I want is to kill a copper ’ , an Old Bailey jury heard . |
| 11 | Mr Nutting added : ‘ Grenfell admitted that in his presence Vernage had often said ‘ All I want is to kill a copper ’ . |
| 12 | Chilling words of knife maniac : All I want is to kill a cop |
| 13 | All I want is to show the world that Charles was not hallucinating . ’ |
| 14 | Lewis said yesterday : ‘ The last thing I want is to get the title outside the ring . |
| 15 | I 'd been made a lance-corporal just before we left and had been put in charge of a group of boys . |
| 16 | I had n't been thinking of stress or shock , I 'd been nursing a hangover . |
| 17 | Only to wish that I 'd been born a boy . ’ |
| 18 | In the end , just to save myself from socking him one , I had to pretend I 'd been using the term ironically . |
| 19 | I 'd been given a date for the baby to arrive but that came and went , but then I woke up in the early hours of the following Friday . |
| 20 | I 'd been given a pair of lime green webbed gloves as a wedding present by Roger , my surfing guru in Newquay . |
| 21 | I do n't think I could have handled it if I 'd been given a sentence . |
| 22 | I 'd been given a hint that something like this could be on the cards when I was first approached . ’ |
| 23 | He throws me out anyway , a bad influence , a bad example , coming from the kind of home I did , I should know better , I 'd been given every chance . |
| 24 | if I 'd been given the choice , erm you know if they 'd said you know okay you 're next , you going I 'd have said no thanks , send somebody else , but er |
| 25 | I 'd been taking a bucket of slack to the washhouse where all the women were gathered gossiping . |
| 26 | So I do n't You know whilst I would have normally if I 'd been teaching a class done about five or six examples of that , that 's all you 're gon na get . |
| 27 | Everything in bilingual Canada was written in both English and French and I realized that since my arrival I 'd been reading the French quite easily . |
| 28 | ‘ But then you discovered how , for two years , I 'd been concealing the knowledge of your son from you , ’ Ashley broke in harshly , ‘ and telling me went out of the window . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'd been to have a bun and a squint at Mrs Y 's telly , or , to put it another way , Inspector , doing a pastoral visit to a sick member of the congregation . ’ |
| 30 | I 'd been widowed a year when we met . |