Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are perhaps owe something to the tabloid newspapers and colour supplements , as these have emerged in the post-war years , with their high illustrative content and minimal text . |
| 2 | Rulers who argue that a country has to be well-off before it can afford to be politically decent to its people are generally providing themselves with an excuse for continuing in their bad old ways . |
| 3 | The owners of the 124 foot Silver Cloud are tonight towing her off the bank ready to tackle the famous Symonds Yatt Rapids on Friday . |
| 4 | ‘ Details are just reaching us of a major breakthrough in the Martian revolution , ’ Derek Carlisle announced . |
| 5 | Well this is alright , but we 're only doing it for the beneficiaries int you ? |
| 6 | and they 're only saying it for the sake of keeping going . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's odd kissing someone you do n't want to kiss but you 're just creating something as an actor for your audience , ’ she explains , admitting there are still times when she feels awkward . |
| 8 | Other negatives were Gareth Burnells 's ‘ No , mate , I do n't think there 's any particular dispute over this stretch of the Derwent , ’ and Neil Newton Taylor 's ‘ No , we 're just taking them for a walk' ’ on a picture postcard of Cauldron Snout . |
| 9 | I 'd like to do that , but you 're just giving one to the Conservatives . |
| 10 | I mean , I mean they are , they 're , they really are you know , we 're so complacent in this country , Mr Cameron , I , I do n't know , do you know , they 're just hitting us in every direction , my goodness me , you , you know , you 'll be afraid to breathe without they 'll want to target that . |
| 11 | And they 're just doing it as a matter of course over there . |
| 12 | Charlie Chaplin 's silent black and white movies captivated the world in the early part of the century … and they 're still doing it for a new generation coming through . |
| 13 | Okay , just about it now Okay , gon na ask each group what marks they 've given and why , now it 's not for the other team to justify it because it 's all a subjective thing but the thing is we 're hopefully marking them against the same criteria as everybody else because we 've all been in the same place and listened to the same things and read the same things , however , now we know obviously it does n't necessarily mean that everybody 's taken in the same things . |
| 14 | They 're always ask me about the horses . " |
| 15 | no hope we do n't lose it on that Tim , it 's got all my money in at the moment , it 's a really good one is n't it , we 're really enjoying it at the moment does n't what number it is but we just , what do we do with this ? |
| 16 | By a combination of Impressionist vision , imagination , a magical mastery of language , Proust uses À la recherche to explore often banal objects , often apparently dull people , often apparently trivial episodes , in such a way that he recreates them with a freshness , erm a power of conviction , that persuade us we 're actually seeing them with a privileged insight , or perhaps even seeing them for the first time . |
| 17 | Of course while they may be imagining that they are bending my ear and creating a good impression , they are also providing me with the kind of evidence I am looking for about the gendered and generational aspects of this kind of racism . |
| 18 | This is unavoidable , but it means that you may get the impression that they are also used one at a time . |
| 19 | By asserting it , however , we are also committing ourselves to a general conditional proposition of a standard kind . |
| 20 | TWO-TIMING men with neatly trimmed pencil moustaches who like to drink as hard as they work are unwittingly modelling themselves upon a style that is at least 4,500 years old , archaeologists have discovered . |
| 21 | The accused had been sexually abused himself as a child and now bitterly regretted the harm he had caused his daughters . |
| 22 | Well I 'm just getting it on the |
| 23 | I 'm not watching it I 'm just getting it at the beginning . |
| 24 | How many voted to put , smack the Conservatives , and do n't worry about politics I 'm just using it as an example , in the face . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm just helping you into the canoe . |
| 26 | I 'm just having one with no weapons |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm just presenting you with the facts . |
| 28 | I 'm just doing something at the moment |
| 29 | You now , he , he 's had , I 'm just keeping him on the straight and narrow while he 's on remission . |
| 30 | Well I 'm still getting myself in a tangle , like I was when I came . |