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Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.

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1	Although the user thinks that they are deleting the material they are only really removing them from the current display list — all the text and graphics are still being held in the file .
2	Though the former England winger yesterday insisted he was content to remain with Leicester City , the club he joined from Darlington last summer , it is understood that moves are already underway to install him in the vacant Roker job .
3	I mean there 's carnage on these roads of ours , and people are just not doing anything about it or taking it seriously enough .
4	‘ They 're all right to take me to the pictures , ’ she said .
5	You 're best just putting it on a table Margaret .
6	You 're surely not connecting her with Dominic 's death ? ’
7	They 're certainly not doing it with other men ( only 3.6 per cent claim to have had homosexual intercourse ) , so can we presume yet again that men just like to say they do it more often .
8	But there 's people that you know are still now spending them at Christmas .
9	In many areas they are now however finding themselves in direct competition with Tertiary Colleges which operate under F.E. regulations and which are not constrained by school regulations .
10	Is stripping and restoring the diffs a reasonable proposition given the number of special tools required , or would I be better off replacing them as a whole ?
11	Ah , well you 'll have to take it up there then , you 'd be better off joining it at the back if you 're gon na join it
12	Linda knows what it is , but I 'm just not saying anything about it .
13	It seemed that once people met him they decided they were better off having him as a friend than an enemy .
14	In fact , he was already discussing it in his office when he discovered that Paramount were in the middle of a feud with Redford and were just about to serve him with a writ .
15	‘ And we 've got it with us , and we were just about to show it to Jacqui when you arrived . ’
16	‘ Well , they would be , would n't they ? ’ she interrupted sarcastically , ‘ seeing as they were just about to send you on a spying mission ! ’
17	But since she is rather ostentatiously concealing it with her arm as she talks I imagine that it is in fact not homework at all , but a contribution to her mother 's Festschrift .
18	He 's only just lent it to me to use during this week .
19	‘ That 's all very well , but Chamberlain 's only just told us on the wireless that the war 's begun . ’
20	These are waters which do not , as a rule , produce big bream , for with so many mouths to share the available food there is only enough to maintain them at a low body weight .
21	He is once more distancing himself from the people of Scotland .
22	The Brigadier 's always out to catch him at it .
23	But there 's still enough to make it worth their while doing it .
24	Well he 's probably just caught him on the back of on the back of the calf but er I thought it was as you say I thought it was a nice sharp incisive tackle .
25	‘ But , for your information , Doreen is no longer reminding me of my mother .
26	They 're chewing up the lawn but Carl there 's nowhere else to put them at the moment .
27	I am therefore today asking you for her hand , for no one else is capable of making me happy nor more fitted to wear a crown .
28	Not that he breathed a word of this to any of the others ; it was enough just to drink it in himself , sharing his secret with the old farmer .
29	So I did — my mother had that drawing for many years — and then Mr Moore rang my mother and said that it was so nice having me in his class because I was so interested and keen , but there was n't really a lot of point , and would n't it be better if I played the piano ?
30	It was only when telling someone about the finale , weeks later , that I realized the unconscious pun of ‘ Sayer Little Prayer ’ and he washed over me all over again .