Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pers pn] be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To maximise your income — which may mean , for example , exploring the possibility of a part time job , or checking you are getting all the state benefits to which you are entitled . |
| 2 | The four basic steps on the road back to financial health are : To Maximise your income — which may mean , for example , exploring the possibility of a part time job , or checking you are getting all the state benefits to which you are entitled . |
| 3 | Erm , that is kids may express curiosity , kids may even be doing things that imply they 're getting some sort of pleasure out of their bodies y'know they may be , as we used to call it when I was a child , playing with themselves , um they may be erm doing various things that er that give them some sort of bodily pleasure . |
| 4 | With Matthew clutching at her apron , Ann , who was servant as well as mistress in her house , bustled to open the door , while Jill peered cautiously round the kitchen door and Nathan began making those deep crooning noises that indicated he was becoming excited . |
| 5 | cos you know he was that shattered he was falling asleep downstairs before I put him in his cot , so it was a case then of putting him to sleep in his cot |
| 6 | A sergeant with a face which looked as if its owner was more used to giving lumps than receiving them was standing next to her . |
| 7 | The bus stops again at the Kensington Hilton , a hotel so much on the edge of Kensington that had it been built 10 feet to the west , they should have called it the Shepherds Bush Hilton . |
| 8 | Many men become anxious about the lack of spontaneous erection and diminished ejaculation , and fear they are becoming impotent . |
| 9 | What are we going I mean we we 've heard also I 'm changing the subject now because that was the the sort of political answer I 'd expect and er I suppose until I get somebody else come on and say he 's talking absolute whatever er I mean I think it is down to the people who live and work with the school . |
| 10 | What would you do if some man out there in the anonymous darkness of the audience fell under the spell you create so skilfully and believed you were singing those sensuous songs just for him ? ’ |
| 11 | DG claims significant demand for its top-end 4 and 8-way Motorola 88100 servers , and says it is selling one of its CLARiiON RAID disc storage sub-systems with just about every 8-way machine that goes out the door . |
| 12 | If you work if you work on a quarter page at three ninety and cos remember you 're telling all this on the phone . |
| 13 | ( A man 's reaction about small type would have been to point to the scale and demand it be paid extra ! ) |
| 14 | Take the fact , for example , that a quiet residential road is one of the most dangerous since the driver has a perception of being in a wide , open space and feels he is driving slower than he actually is . |
| 15 | Mrs Abigail drove the blue WRVS van , Miss Poraway sat beside her with a list of the names and addresses they were to visit that morning , the diabetics marked with a ‘ D ’ , as were the corresponding dinners in the metal hot-boxes . |
| 16 | Lizzie grumbled and said she was getting thin and doing too much , but then Lizzie would have grumbled if she had done too little . |
| 17 | ‘ He rang me up and said he was feeling lousy and could I look up his chart . |
| 18 | Ah , when you were walking about and said I 'm trying this out I thought it was erm I thought our exercise bike had come . |
| 19 | So erm w if Had he been doing digging graves when he was in Suffolk ? |
| 20 | And have you been taking that for quite a while ? |
| 21 | US officials admit that they knew about the coup plans as early as last Saturday , but say they were given little time to judge its chances of success or to plan any US involvement . |
| 22 | Medics are keeping her under intensive care but say she is making satisfactory progress . |
| 23 | ‘ E shook me 'and then , an' said I was to forget all about 'im . |