Example sentences of "be [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , she says , because if your light ha had n't of been on she were going straight home . |
| 2 | The chances of the grouping being accidental are effectively nil ; we are dealing with a true star-cluster . |
| 3 | We are effectively their warehouse in this country . |
| 4 | So what do we do about those pieces of music which are effectively our own property-which are so adolescent or tuneless or rebarbative or just mediocre that we ca n't justify wasting anyone else 's time with them — but which are important to us ? |
| 5 | The wishes and feelings of the old person are properly our first consideration , though , even if there is no risk to others , one can not necessarily in all circumstances make them paramount . |
| 6 | That is how it has been in the past , we have never been friends , and perhaps it has been altogether my fault . |
| 7 | Avoid " role modelling " for the successful models are rarely what they appear . |
| 8 | Part of the trick of a successful television documentary is to make each comment delivered within it sound spontaneous : they are rarely anything of the sort . |
| 9 | In one revolution , whatever number of cones are on there there 's a feeder for , so if there 's a hundred feeders in one revolution it knits a hundred courses . |
| 10 | Now that the lights are on I do n't suspect that she drove him to suicide . |
| 11 | Erm and er the colours for men by tradition are much I think they 're much subtler Hm . |
| 12 | There had been only him , only her , and she had wondered . |
| 13 | Although not infrequently recorded in the 19th century , when it was possibly a fairly regular winter visitor , only six were recorded between 1900 and 1929 , and there has been only one since , at Selsey Bill on 30 July 1961 . |
| 14 | Anyway after about a week , all men as been worked in the pits , By the way I 'd been down I 'd been to the . |
| 15 | I mean , this 'll have been down I , oh , wo n't be able to get as much wear |
| 16 | but , then the next morning of course when Wendy got home she 'd been down my nephew 's looking after the kids for them and erm , and said we 've come to arrest you , and no , oh Rachael said oh mum there 's a police car pulled up outside , so she said , oh my god do n't tell me they 're wrong and it is Tracey , cos Tracey 's left home , she 's gone to live with her friend and erm , anyway , when Wendy got to the stairs she could n't go in , she could n't go any further and she said erm , when , when the policeman said Mrs I 've come to arrest you , she just about said Christ she said what have I done ? |
| 17 | it 's been all what 's er named . |
| 18 | An accomplished 165 may have helped set up Northamptonshire 's comprehensive thwacking of Glamorgan , but the vice-captain 's overall form had not been all he would have wished , a reflection , perhaps , of a disenchanted soul . |
| 19 | It was established that individual pathetic character once and forever by tying one end of his pocket handkerchief to a hook on , in the wall and attaching himself to the other to the performance , to , to the performance of this feat however the pocket handkerchief inside had been all he , he only cried bitterly all day and when the longest nights came on he spread his little hand before his eyes to shut out the darkness and crouching in the corner tried to sleep , everyone drawing himself closer and closer to the wall |
| 20 | But when I asked him where he had been all he said was , ‘ Go back to sleep . ’ |
| 21 | It had been all she could do , as she wrote to Ellen : |
| 22 | So that way the technology but the machines are basically what they had |
| 23 | The core material would be highway ‘ planings ’ , which are basically what is scraped off a road before it is re-surfaced . |
| 24 | Erm and these are the fairly brief er Chairman I think , I am sorry for disappointing Mr because because erm I main properties but erm we are basically I think sort of more or less agreed parties that we actually want this . |
| 25 | ‘ Um , but here I am inside it ? ’ |
| 26 | When Chris and I are together we have some lovely happy times . ’ |
| 27 | She 's twenty-nine and on the other hand I have another friend who is in her forties ( 'A' ) and when those two are together it 's difficult to keep one awake . |
| 28 | Moreover , it has been argued that whenever two or more people are together it is impossible not to communicate . |
| 29 | ‘ And as she and Steve are together it 's not unlikely for him to pick up the phone if it rang . ’ |
| 30 | Whenever I wake up in his arms when we are together I feel surprised because he is so beautiful |