Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [be] press " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hate being pressed for choices . |
| 2 | The simplest but most useful WordStar tip that I know is to press ESC @ to insert todays date into a document . |
| 3 | And , faith , since we married I 've been pressed into service as one more brother to him , a father , too , since his own father died when the boy was barely thirteen . |
| 4 | You might remember I 've been pressing for this for about eighteen bloody months . |
| 5 | The 1967 Criminal Justice Act had added the suspended sentence which had been pressed on the Home Secretary by an enthusiastic judiciary . |
| 6 | But Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown , who has been pressing for CUTS in interest rates , said the rise was ‘ disastrous . ’ |
| 7 | What we decided to do , because I thought that 's what you 'd been pressing for , was to show that as the equivalent affect of , okay , you think you 're making these profits but you 're actually enjoying services that you 're not paying for . |
| 8 | About all the exercise you get is pressing the button on your automatic gear change . |
| 9 | I mean if you just want the teletext all you do is press your mute and then you 'll just have your teletext without the sound . |
| 10 | Captain Charles Campbell , the Government agent in the burgh of Stirling in 1734 , wrote to Lord Milton to desire the freedom of a Stirling man named Kier who had been pressed by Captain Oliphant of the Terrible , a cruiser stationed in the Forth . |
| 11 | The Dept of Health says ’ we are aware of the problem and we 've been pressing the medical profession to do something about it for some time . |
| 12 | That is why we have been pressing within the EC for full liberalisation of services . |
| 13 | That has brought a great deal of success , because the French Government are now taking the tough measures that we have been pressing on them for 10 years . |
| 14 | The hon. Gentleman may already have guessed that we have been pressing others to play their part in the important work in which the United Nations is engaged . |
| 15 | They 've not said a word on the rest of the industry and in fact wo n't say it and they 've been pressed very very hard on what the future entails for the rest of the coal field . |
| 16 | Leaves are much hardier and will stand any amount of bad treatment , but having said that do n't try pressing damaged or nibbled leaves in the hope that they will look better once they have been pressed because they wo n't ! |
| 17 | Young elder tree and ash tree leaves can also turn black sometimes once they have been pressed . |
| 18 | For this reason , it is often much more effective to press the different parts of the spray individually and then reconstruct them once they have been pressed . |
| 19 | They have been pressing allies to corroborate their findings . |
| 20 | They have been pressing the president to appeal to regional leaders for support , offering them more local powers under the new constitution . |
| 21 | He has been pressing her to move for some time . |
| 22 | Mr Beacham said he has been pressing the British Legion to put Stephen 's name on the role of honour . |
| 23 | For instance , you can build up a design that looks as though it has been pressed as a single spray ( see pp. 98–9 ) , although in fact each flower and leaf should be positioned with care to give a natural effect . |
| 24 | I used a small spray of birds-foot trefoil , and although in the finished picture it seems as though it has been pressed just as it was picked , in fact the majority of the piece was dismantled for pressing and reassembled for the picture . |
| 25 | For such cream cheeses moulds are not strictly necessary , although the cheese looks more presentable if it has been pressed in a muslin-lined basket , a heart-shaped mould , a cake tin pierced with holes , even an expendable carton or a flower pot — always provided that the essential lining is not forgotten . |
| 26 | He 'd been pressing me to come down here for a long time . |
| 27 | Labour attempted to pre-empt any jobs package by stressing yesterday that it had been pressing for such measures since before Christmas . |
| 28 | The director of policy of the Consumers ' Association , Stephen Locke , said it had been pressing the Government to introduce the measures for some time . |
| 29 | Cunliffe admitted that his knowledge of Germany was inadequate and that his figure was ‘ little more than a shot in the dark as he had been pressed to arrive at it between a Saturday and a Monday ’ . |
| 30 | He had been pressing for the opportunity to abandon himself , free of dogma , and here it was . |