Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only can we point to the success of such a tax abroad , but at no stage in recent negotiations or since have we been told that a local income tax would not work . |
| 2 | Patients were not embarrassed in seeing their doctor and most thought they were treated sympathetically . |
| 3 | 1 comb ( for moment when you look into a magnificent eighteenth-century 18′ x 18′ mirror and suddenly realise you 're letting the whole place down with your unkempt hair ) |
| 4 | Judith Hurwitz , now head of the Hurwitz Consulting Group , says the whole tone of SCO Forum was different this year and obviously indicates they are jockeying to go public — even though they 'll need a couple more quarters at least to get the kind of track record they need to do it . |
| 5 | But even this , Wemmick decides to keep to his life at Walworth and not let it be mentioned in Little Britain which even though it seems odd , stays within the boundaries of his character which Dickens has been building on . |
| 6 | In the words of one politician , ‘ given that the major public utilities are under constant political attack , it is in the interests of the chairmen to have the minister broadly defending the industry and not letting it be known in the ways the minister has at his disposal that he basically agrees with the critics ’ ( fieldnotes ) . |
| 7 | And just pretend we 're going far away . |
| 8 | The doctor had misread the message and clearly imagined she was wearing it to entice . |
| 9 | And this means that they are more confident about their work and really feel they are making progress . |
| 10 | British Telecommunications Plc 's Customer Systems division — ‘ the largest UK systems house that no-one 's ever heard of ’ — has spent the past three years restructuring and now reckons it is set to take the world by storm . |
| 11 | He was clearly upset and simply said he was making a video . |
| 12 | And please let them be hanging on to their gossip and porter . |
| 13 | If you do n't get your children immunised against measles and whopping cough you are putting them at risk . |
| 14 | Well they asked for you , and your name , and I said no you were n't in , and then said we 're looking for Joanne . |
| 15 | I noticed on your card she called him Daniel David and then behold he 's going to be just Daniel . |
| 16 | What he did wish was to emasculate his opponents , and then to pretend they were coming together as equals . |
| 17 | In either case the officer must have reasonable grounds for believing that it is necessary to seize the evidence there and then to prevent it being destroyed . |
| 18 | I think you 've got to be careful how you word the letter on that because what I do n't want you to do is to say yes okay and then find you 're blocked on an industrial tribunal application . |
| 19 | erm to make the most of the holiday , and then found she was working in the sh in the middle . |
| 20 | Leaflets giving details of the Alumni Foundation 's work and how to support it are enclosed with this magazine or can be obtained from the Alumni Foundation Office in Senate House . |
| 21 | ‘ And how have I been spending this summer ? |
| 22 | More details of these charts and how to complete them are given in ILO ( 1979 ) . |
| 23 | And however attracted they were to direct democracy and peasant self-government , they were increasingly concerned to take power into their own hands . |
| 24 | What was the purpose of this " series of conferences " and why had they been called ? |
| 25 | In other words , for a man to talk lowgrade nonsense , at any time , much less constantly , and never know he was doing it … ? |
| 26 | Remember all these things at an interview and never let it be said that you are ‘ just a mother ’ ! |
| 27 | the income arising to the trust has a foreign source and therefore had it been received by the beneficiary he would not have borne tax on it ; and 2. the benefit — the payment out by the trustees to the individual — is not received in the United Kingdom . |
| 28 | Perhaps my problem is the way I perceived the first news of the crumbling of the old Europe ; sitting in hospital and festooned in drip feeds and stoned out of my mind on pethidine as I came round from an anaesthetic , I muzzily watched the news on the TV in the corner of my room and truly believed I was hallucinating as I saw kitchen choppers taking down the Berlin Wall ; after such a beginning to the thaw , how can I believe that as well as East Germany 's arrival in the West , Czechoslovakia is almost herself again . |
| 29 | She was a Scots Presbyterian from Edinburgh and knew nothing about the theatre , but just knew I was going to do it . |
| 30 | Some people prefer to think of blue or golden light ; others may not think of a colour at all but just feel they are centred within a sphere . |