Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] be [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally I am addressing this letter particularly to those of you — the majority — who resisted all temptations and ‘ pressure selling ’ techniques to which you were exposed , and stayed with us ! |
| 2 | Erm so I 'm making some progress there . |
| 3 | But you see , the Reverend has a distant relative whom he means to put in my place and so I was granted sick leave over the holiday in order that his dear Jonathan could come and assist him with the Christmas services . |
| 4 | So I was having little joy with the fine slub yarns in different colours . |
| 5 | Its a , during the course of the time of the crucifixion , Jesus is on the cross and its says there , there were two others also who were criminals , were being lead away to be put to death with Jesus and they came to the place called The Skull , there they crucified him and the criminals one on the right and the other on the left , but Jesus was saying father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing , and they cast locks divided up his garments among themselves and the people stood by and looking on and even the rulers was sneering at him excuse me , and even the rulers were sneering at him saying he saved others , let him save himself if this is the Christ of god , his chosen one , and the soldiers also mocked him , coming up to him offering sour wine and saying if your the king of the Jews save yourself now there was also an inscription above him , this is the kind of the Jews , and one of the criminals who was hanged there was hurling abut at him and saying you are not the Christ , save yourself and us , but the other answered and rebuking him said do you not even fear god , since you are under the same sentence of condemnation and we indeed justly for we are receiving what we deserve for our deeds , but this man has done nothing wrong and he was say , and he was saying Jesus remember me when you come in your kingdom , Jesus said to him truly I say to you today you shall be with me in paradise I wonder if you 've ever been in that awful position of facing of what you thought was certain death perhaps you were seriously ill and er , there seemed little hope of your recovery , perhaps you were facing some danger , some , some risk and it seemed almost certain that short of a miracle you were gon na die , I wonder what sort of thoughts would have been going through your mind , maybe w , may well be that you were with other people , I wonder what sort of things if you were in a condition of speaking , what sort of things you would of been saying to them . |
| 6 | Perhaps you were facing some danger , some , some risk and it seemed almost certain that short of a miracle you were gon na die . |
| 7 | So you s you s you 're saying so you 're saying some kind of actual |
| 8 | So you 're spotting that pattern . |
| 9 | So we 're watching that programme , Is this Your Last Cigarette ? or whatever it were called last Sunday on the telly and I thought I 'm stupid cos in six month 's time I shall say I could have packed up six months ago . |
| 10 | P C Q so we 're measuring this angle here . |
| 11 | Erm , the particular one I 'm focusing on here is sort of the , the vision screening part of it cos the assessment of work stations is gon na be a longer term thing , we 're going back to pre where they 've actually sort of ticked the various boxes on the sheets and said this is like that and so we are collating that information currently . |
| 12 | So we were doing this music which was away from the pop stuff that was around . |
| 13 | Whose arms went out first they would never know , but suddenly they were holding each other tightly , their mouths hungry for each other . |
| 14 | In that square place that was over there , it was a pantry , some of them were so fused together they were holding each other . |
| 15 | But apparently it was stolen last week . |
| 16 | Of all the men in Chung Kuo , only he was allowed this richness , this lifelong measure of perfection . |
| 17 | This may have been for meals during the day while living elsewhere , or perhaps it was to make existing accommodation there more adequate for his use . |
| 18 | But erm I need to get some rope cos I 'm doing , finally I 'm doing that act for my cousin 's birthday who 's nearly two |
| 19 | And already we are making heartening progress . |
| 20 | Soon we were making more money than the car company was losing . |
| 21 | Anyway they were born one place and moved one place and then they come to after I were born . |
| 22 | Jed drove north to begin with , his wrist a rectangle of heat and all that numbness just behind his eyes , but after two days the roads drew him inland , over high mountains , and soon he was heading due west . |
| 23 | The campaign 's just starting , and already it 's generating much attention … proof say De Montfort University authorities that it 's money well spent |
| 24 | As far as he knows Women in Love has not been adapted for the stage before , but already it is causing much interest from other theatres and companies . |
| 25 | It is still in its infancy , still drifting clumsily about in its primeval soup , but already it is achieving evolutionary change at a rate that leaves the old gene panting far behind . |
| 26 | I mean presumably you was born this side of the river ? |
| 27 | All at once she was wishing that Desmond was with her . |
| 28 | IBM Corp 's personal computer business was around the break-even level or may have been profitable in the first three months of this year , the president of IBM Personal Computer Co Robert Corrigan told the New York Times : he says he thinks ‘ people will be surprised at how quickly we 're bringing this business back , ’ and that it should be solidly profitable before year-end ; problem is that its closest rivals , Compaq Computer Corp and Dell Computer Corp , which both faced the same problems as IBM , adjusted to the change in the market much more quickly , and rushed appropriate machines out while IBM procrastinated , so that they are already strongly profitable while IBM is still having to build up momentum . |
| 29 | say like we 're moving some equipment from one place to another |
| 30 | At Club LaSanta , the sporting holiday resort where he trains in Lanzarote , the other guests are clearly getting a little fillip from the rangy , easy presence of their imagistic icon , but still he was cornered one night in the bar by a posse of English girls to be accused : ‘ Oh , we hear you 're really arrogant . ’ |