Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [verb] [det] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am considering all the things now that I was then and may try to qualify for the US Senior Tour in November . |
| 2 | I was looking at it the other day and I was thinking all the bits that are out now . |
| 3 | There was a short hiatus , then he said unconvincingly , ‘ I was checking all the rooms for food . |
| 4 | I realised I was missing half the jokes , so I mugged up from a textbook — and here I am , ready for more ! ’ |
| 5 | The flight engineer , who had been at Halton as all apprentice with me and had left and later returned to the Air Force , complained bitterly as I was making all the preparations for take-off , but I ignored him . |
| 6 | ‘ I can not believe you were here , in Roma , while I was employing half the detectives in New York to find you ! ’ |
| 7 | I would also suggest that one multivitamin tablet be taken daily to make doubly sure that you are getting all the vitamins you need . |
| 8 | When you drink orange juice you are getting all the calories which are present in the orange in the form of sugar , but with none of the fibre filling power . |
| 9 | When you 're doing your annual burn out when you 're burning all the weeds and you might think oh I 'll get rid of this . |
| 10 | The total of 188 cases of sexual assault means that , if you were reading all the newspapers in the study , you would have at least one new case of sexual assault , usually by an unknown assailant , to read about every other day . |
| 11 | Sue says she 's beaten all the players above her in the world rankings and will have to work harder to make up the difference . |
| 12 | She 's outdone all the others , |
| 13 | It is n't easy for any of us today to be sure that we are getting all the vitamins that we need . |
| 14 | Right , so we 're using all the others are we ? |
| 15 | ‘ The French are in Frasnes , and we 're holding all the farms beyond the stream . |
| 16 | Tell him we 're putting all the files in one place , or some such shit . |
| 17 | We were to meet him at the airport , and when we were making all the arrangements with him on the phone , he said , ‘ Are you sure you 'll be able to recognize me ? ’ |
| 18 | They went over all , while they were doing this work and he gave us a sheet last week , we were doing all the questions this week and he went over all the questions with us ! |
| 19 | They are getting all the profits from us keeping them entertained . ’ |
| 20 | Membership of the Party increased dramatically to , to two million people and then the masses under leadership again saying there was , they 're , they 're looking at about ten million , and they 're saying half the peasants in the are organized , that these are , are people who are , who , who are at the forefront of the , of the movement , involvement is , is very high . |
| 21 | ‘ The teachers do n't teach , the priests do n't bother , and they 're releasing all the lunatics into the community so they do n't get looked after and they 'll either pass out from exposure or starvation or kill people because they 're mad , and then they 'll be slung into prison to add to the overcrowding , and all in all it does n't make a lot of sense . |
| 22 | They were discussing all the subjects usually kept under the pillow . |
| 23 | But , like he says , they were refurbishing all the places there . |
| 24 | It 's meant all the locks have had to be replaced and the family is left with a feeling of uncertainty . |
| 25 | It 's expected all the redundancies will be achieved voluntarily . |
| 26 | It 's not just doing it right it 's covering all the angles . |
| 27 | It 's almost mesmeric as well is n't it , this repetition of now , now , now between between the but as as you were saying , it 's sketching all the details in so you , if you were sketching a fox , you know you begin somewhere and say you begin with the nose you 've just got a little detail the nose and the eyes but eventually you 've got to put the whole sketch in . |
| 28 | But of course the minute you put a , slap a cover on this information , it begins to , to change and people die and new governments are elected and whatever , er so yes , we are , we have in our employ someone who 's sole job it is to read all the newspapers , er watch the T V , all the media and keep all the information up to date , so the , that 's a full time job really and they 're working on the data base day and night |
| 29 | This analysis must however be extended if it is to cover all the uses of the infinitive since there are also cases in which the latter is not in relation with another verb , as in the following exclamations : ( 1 ) Oh to be in England now that April 's there ! |
| 30 | ‘ But he 's followed all the rules since he was given political asylum and I think he should be allowed to compete as an individual . ’ |