Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [prep] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This man and me are after slaughtering a few trees out there . ’ |
| 2 | I am considering installing a second hand one I purchased on my 1981 SWB 2.25 , 5-bearing petrol engine . |
| 3 | For the boys in the band , it was becoming like they were frozen fish fingers , waiting to be thawed out for the next meal , because I was off doing a mini series or whatever . |
| 4 | If you are considering buying a new outfit for the occasion Carita House always has a supply of Medau Blue garments . |
| 5 | She 's in piling a bloody list ! |
| 6 | We would also suggest customers consult their local dealer if they 're considering buying a used Ford . |
| 7 | But shortly after the trial the twin 's parents announced that they were considering pursuing a civil case for damages . |
| 8 | In a separate development , British Aerospace and Thomson CSF of France confirmed they were considering making a joint offer for Ferranti . |
| 9 | They was on making a good living and still do I think . |
| 10 | What must it be like to have a substantial body of work behind you and yet have the creeping sense that you are being remembered only as a bore in Under the Volcano , as the inventor of a word about Greene , and as the friend of Lowry , of Orwell , of Patrick Hamilton ( himself , something of a forgotten figure ) ? |
| 11 | In other words it 's about buttonholing a large crowd , together , instead of chasing them individually . |
| 12 | It 's worth hiring a heavyduty cutting jig if you have a lot of quarries to cut ; ordinary cutters are n't strong enough for the job . |
| 13 | wrong with it , it 's worth buying a new one . |
| 14 | Well if they 're doing that then we s we 're looking to make this a dual carriageway on the Richard principle that if it 's a trunk road it 's worth building a dual , a dual carriageway . |
| 15 | For attractive flowering and fruiting plants , it 's worth potting a few rooted strawberry runners this summer . |
| 16 | For joining wood : Talking of hammers , it 's worth adding a small pin hammer to your tool kit , for driving small nails , glazing sprigs and the like . |
| 17 | This is an important area for wildfowl during the winter months , and if the tide is coming in it 's worth finding a comfy place to sit and watch the geese , ducks and waders feeding at the water 's edge , gradually being pushed closer by the tide . |
| 18 | As a general principle , every so often it 's worth spending a little time relating words to their root , either the immediate derivation ( fanciful — fancy , variety — vary , especially — special ) , or etymologically ( hippopotamus , fee , salary , window ) . |
| 19 | If the problem you 're confronted with is a ten thousand pound bit of influence , then it 's worth spending a few hundred pounds in a preparation . |
| 20 | If a shop 's good enough , it 's worth making a little effort to get to . |
| 21 | Perhaps it 's worth having a separate print run for that is n't it ? |
| 22 | It 's like watching a proper programme . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've almost forgotten what it 's like to live a normal life , ’ she said drily . |
| 24 | Forget what it 's like learning a long part . |
| 25 | It 's such a want when they have been there so long , that it 's like losing a human being . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's like grasping a slippery fish or a greasy pole . |
| 27 | It 's like putting a blind man in a fast car and telling him to drive where and how he likes . |
| 28 | ‘ I like to hear the sound of voices in my house ’ and ‘ It 's like having a good chat ’ were the kinds of response given to audience surveys of radio and TV in the 1970s . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's like having a real thing , ’ chimes in another . |
| 30 | It 's like having a perpetual Christmas Day and not even having to thank Santa Claus . |