Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] be [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ooh I , I mean being in a right mess |
| 2 | I hate being on the Social . |
| 3 | I keep Koi in the main pond and goldfish in the other and like many fishkeepers ( whom I suspect are in the same situation as I ) I felt that I would be happier with some sort of quarantine/treatment facility for use when I purchase new fish . |
| 4 | I recall being in the first class and er a teacher coming to me , as I were n't paying much attention I think , and to this day I shall remember and never forget , she just folded my arms in front of me and says , Percy , you 're not listening , you 'll have to have a rest . |
| 5 | ‘ I suppose being at an emotional low I did actually take heroin there for the first time , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Ferguson senior added : ‘ All I ask is for the United fans to judge him on what he does on the pitch and not as the manager 's son . |
| 7 | One of the Inverkeithing officers , the tide waiter , was ‘ threatened to be removed or broke ’ if he joined Provost Cunningham in the burgh elections , a sad state of affairs , when , as Cunningham complained , ‘ your Lordship knows what I do is from no other view than to serve the D[uke] of A[rgyl]e & your lordship 's interest , and have his grace 's order for doing so ’ . |
| 8 | I love making , I love doing , I love being to the full , I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart . |
| 9 | Something I wrote on Nov. 7th — ‘ I love being to the full , I love everything which is not sitting and watching . ’ |
| 10 | I 'll do this end as well I think be on the safe side . |
| 11 | The rate I require is as a small trader . |
| 12 | Maddison , 22 , has survived four knee operations and he said : ‘ I 've been through the worst time of my career — now , at last , I 'm getting the chance to show what I can do . |
| 13 | It may be a consolation for them to know that I 've been at the receiving end myself . |
| 14 | ‘ But now that I 've been on a regular contract at Brookside for the last two years I can afford a season ticket in the stand ! ’ |
| 15 | Well I , when I come back from Stop Hill when I 've been on a long shift till five o'clock , I 'm whacked because their bungalow is so warm |
| 16 | But I 've been on an immense number of statutory instruments upstairs er and everybody says they 're greatly needed , they usually say they 're greatly needed because they want to go out in three or four minutes and ten thirty comes and ten thirty five they 're out . |
| 17 | I 've been on the other side of things often enough — guitar in hand , waiting for someone behind a mixing desk to give me the word to start playing — but they 'd never actually let me touch anything ! |
| 18 | I 've been on the other end I 've had people come sell it for to me . |
| 19 | ‘ I look as though I 've been on the wrong end of a Gestapo interrogation . |
| 20 | ‘ You 've been making a bloody exception in my case ever since I 've been on the corporate payroll ’ he yelled . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm better than I 've been for a long time . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Ethel turned me into a frog and that 's where I 've been for the last day , and it was her fault . |
| 23 | Oh , I wish I could have continued as I 've been for the last year or so , with no hopes or fears , and no pleasures and no sadness . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Where I 've been for the past 200 years or so , we count ourselves lucky if we still have one . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I took it up as a form of exercise in Germany , where I 've been for the past two years , ’ he said yesterday . |
| 26 | I 've been to a Beamish museum |
| 27 | I said so I 've been to a local firm and he said well if you 'd wanted a job we could 've found you one , so I went to the Co-op and I went in the credit , working in the Co-op credit and er went from there to . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've been to every fuckin' Pogues gig this side of the Atlantic ’ one die-hard protested , ‘ and Shane is the man . |
| 29 | I 've been to the open-air theatre on the island every year since it opened , and I always tell people that you 've never really seen Shakespeare until you 've seen it on Brownsea . |
| 30 | aha and he says I 've been to the nice wee man he says he remembers ah going round all the houses looking for somebody to do in Apple Street and he went and told what 's his name ? |