Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be that you are not giving yourself enough challenge in the learning goals you set yourself , and that you are attaining them without any stretching of your ability . |
| 2 | They 're already made you just have to prepare them . |
| 3 | They 're just to show we still like each other . |
| 4 | You can stand , and if you 're not elected you simply go back to your old job . |
| 5 | We 're not doing anyone any harm . ’ |
| 6 | But there 's a moral argument that at some point you 're not paying them enough to live on . |
| 7 | ‘ But Melanie , sweetums — ’ the little-girl-lost voice again — ‘ you 're always telling us never to talk to strange men . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Although fewer and fewer are now attending we still meet once a month and we find great strength from discussing problems and traumas . |
| 9 | This is something I really believe , but I 'm not forcing anyone else to believe it too . |
| 10 | Well I 'm just saying I just said that we 're not likely to get it here . |
| 11 | Well , yeah er we we had a fair amount of chemical er troubles erm mainly spillages , bad packaging , erm a few accidents erm , and very little information in those early days erm there was a lot of nasty chemicals going around which erm very little information followed it and people were being quite seriously injured , firemen included , policemen and others were getting involved with these things , and I got myself involved quite a lot with the various bodies that deal with chemicals , like the Chemical Industry Association , and people of that kind , trying to make things a bit safer , and taking up cases where spillages had occurred and , and accidents had happened er to try to get to the bottom of it and try to improve the situation and er I was n't alone , most Chief Officers were working that way and certainly the London Fire Brigade did it , did no end of work with producing , what is now commonly known as the coding and , and a system of , of erm er marking containers of chemicals so that people can understand how to deal with them , so that that was quite an interesting area which , even now I 'm now retired I still have a little hand in that with er chemicals er in my few moments I have spare I , I get involved with that side , which I enjoy . |
| 12 | For I am at such an inn because it is all I can afford — and you would not be here had you better means . ’ |
| 13 | The break lasted twenty minutes ; but it was not a complete break for the horseman for he was still in charge of the horses ; and as they were not feeding they sometimes got restless , especially in the summer-time when the flies worried them and sometimes caused a horse to get his foot over a trace . |
| 14 | Describing London as ‘ a city of illusions , subject every now and then to a series of harsh awakenings ’ , The Echo ( 11 August 1898 ) believed that while some of the stones were undoubtedly exaggerated they nevertheless served a purpose : ‘ We steadily shut our eyes to the submerged lawlessness of less fortunate districts until a series of Whitechapel outrages , or Hooligan exploits , make us not only aware of what is going on , but actually afraid of our lives . ’ |
| 15 | Erm the work that I became , as it happened , mostly concerned with was the erm granting of major scholarships as they were then called which subsequently became called County Awards and er which were attainable in those days only at universities |
| 16 | It is widely believed he already has a short two per cent stake although Allied has not detected his presence on its share register . |
| 17 | It 's only take you probably take you about twenty minutes , to do , Y equals log X , just use your calculator . |
| 18 | The judges must have forgotten their watches.Truth is , the battle is so absorbing it always extends until an obvious champion is emerges ; the last lonely Rokkaku deserves its 6 points as it descends unscathed . |
| 19 | This is not to condone what either did . |
| 20 | This is not to say we never punish a horse : sometimes we must . |
| 21 | He said : ‘ It is there — but the fact is it is not doing anyone any harm . |
| 22 | With Siouxsie singing it , it 's just like we always thought , is n't it ? |
| 23 | it 's just to tell you just to show you how efficient that er our callers would be in a fire . |
| 24 | But I 'll tell you the name that is used , or was used afterwards , but I do n't know if that name is still used I certainly have n't seen it in a text book in years ! |
| 25 | Howard 's always found him slightly unsettling , it 's true . |
| 26 | I suppose Mum should know , as she 's always saying it only seems like yesterday that she was young . |
| 27 | Phonelink is also developing Tel-me further to handle data from a whole range of information providers . |
| 28 | 3 The learner is now enjoying his newly found ability in the target language , but makes numerous errors . |
| 29 | Erm then It is though let me just say quickly It is a recognized fact for weddings that you do sell through the magazines . |
| 30 | You probably figured out by now that I 'm part of the team that made the game and to prove it is n't bugged I only have to quote some of Ian Osborne 's words : |