Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 've been slowly starving us to death , ’ they said . |
| 2 | Er I think that advertising has a lot to answer for , er we have this er , you know on cigarette 's there are so many notices and yet we get all this hype in television ads about cars , well cars are basically to get you from A to B and er there should be restrictions in advertising and try and get away from this macho image that the car has , its in , its a necessity of life its not something which alters your ego . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't have a lot of money when I come home and my parents , who are both on income support , are basically keeping me during holidays . ’ |
| 4 | But time is running out and I am suddenly discovering lots of subjects for my sketchpad . |
| 5 | His admirers are already comparing him with Chips Channon , Harold Nicolson , Richard Crossman , even Samuel Pepys . |
| 6 | The Open Software Foundation and Unix International as well as Sun Microsystems Inc are already using it as base technology . |
| 7 | The authorities are already threatening me with letters claiming the derelict houses are a public danger . ’ |
| 8 | To persuade their clients of the merits of the extension , the DLC salon is holding monthly wig parties , and punters are already swamping them with demands for afros and bouffant , bum-length Dolly Parton styles . |
| 9 | Oh them , no they 're , they 're just leave them in son . |
| 10 | Yeah and you wo n't if , do you , wo n't have to tell 'em what you 're getting for doing it , you 're just , you 're just doing it for interest so to speak |
| 11 | ‘ We 're still developing it for use with seedlings and delicate plants , ’ says Stuart , ‘ but we 're certain it has tremendous potential . ’ |
| 12 | it 's not as if you 're like selling them at cost and making a few pence because |
| 13 | ‘ Anyway , you ca n't commit suicide with a twelve bore , although they 're always doing it in books . |
| 14 | Whe when they 're actually describing something like homework oh that 's cool , they do n't really mean it as good , or do they ? |
| 15 | ‘ People are always asking me about God , ’ remarks Stephen Hawking , as if surprised by their readiness to associate the origin of the universe with a creator . |
| 16 | Now the tory party are forever lecturing us about choice are they not . |
| 17 | Gordon , who runs the American Heartbeat clothes shop , Whessoe Road , said : ‘ We have had a great turn-out and are still collecting lots of cans . |
| 18 | ‘ We are still investigating them at present and have not ruled them out . ’ |
| 19 | By now you are probably receiving lots of Christmas cards . |
| 20 | Confirming that the dead boy was James Bulger , who disappeared while out shopping with his mother on Friday , a police spokesman said a post-mortem examination had established the cause of death , but would give no details other than to say : ‘ We are now treating it as murder . ’ |
| 21 | Having bought it back from him , they are now offering it for £1.6 million . |
| 22 | He wanted it to be a surprise for you , and I 'm only telling you in advance in case — in case you should think it might have been me . " |
| 23 | No I 'm , but I 'm only buying them in pairs ! |
| 24 | I do n't want to be morbid , my lovely , or for you to think that I 'm just seducing you with promises in order to take what I want . |
| 25 | And to be fair to you I 'm again going to give you a few minutes to talk about that , not quite as long as the other time , then I 'll ask you to jot a couple of things down as well as , so I 'm just telling you in advance . |
| 26 | I keep doing it wrong so I gave up and I 'm just covering it with purple . |
| 27 | I 'm forever putting him on diets but he just runs straight round to the local kebab shop and puts away three large doners and a rum baba . |
| 28 | Then they continue , they hand you the tape , you ask them a few questions , like what the band 's called , how long you 've been working together , and bla bla bla , and then erm , I think I I 'm actually doing it with Kent and James and they 're not thick . |
| 29 | ‘ Briefly , counsellor , I am here to keep you in business . ’ |
| 30 | However , although at this stage the inner reaches of PCF life , the practical realities of daily party cultural work , were slowly revealing themselves to Nizan , his intellectual and ideological development was still very much dominated by sectarian rhetoric and abstract , idealised images of a better future destined to arise from the overthrow of capitalism . |