Example sentences of "[coord] be [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 He drove through the backstreets , and the quieter residential boulevards , where people had either ignored the date and retired to sleep , or were celebrating it in the privacy of their homes .
2 If you are under 60 but your husband has reached 65 and is retired , he may be able to claim a dependency addition of £32.55 for you , provided he pays it to you or is maintaining you to an equivalent amount .
3 I do not know whether that means that he has changed his policy or is distancing himself from the official line of the Labour party on unemployment issues .
4 Let me now assume that you are being considered by a prospective principal and are seeing him for the first time .
5 Send them to your boss 's secretary , stating in writing that you are starting on the preparation of the report , as instructed , and are basing it on the enclosed terms of reference .
6 Now Amsterdam seem to be willing to take him on despite the scandal , and are presenting him as an exciting and controversial figure , while many of his former colleagues in The Hague admire him , as do the public ; he is seen as decisive , inspiring and provocative .
7 So there is a shortage of hard information in some areas , er , it is a changing situation , and it is one where the Committee is under very clear instruction to extend the alternative care options that it gives to clients , and therefore that again is a complexity in terms of your ability to ensure you 've got adequate funding and are directing it in the right areas in , in order to meet , not only the needs of people out there , but the changing needs and what is , Mike has already referred to as being the preferred solutions erm , many of which have not been available to people in the past .
8 However , I am doing as the Daily Mirror suggested , and am contacting you in the hope that you can give me the answer .
9 Alyssia hesitantly walked in , and almost immediately saw her friend by the cash register , looking with interest at a couple of oldish women who had put on some very garish dresses and were inspecting themselves in the mirror .
10 They had taken the area from the rebels and were defending it on the orders of General Kopyion .
11 At the front , though , they had taken them through the gate and were playing them on the windows of Hilda Machin 's sitting-room .
12 Mr Kelly has made a formal complaint against the police and is to lodge one against the ambulance service .
13 She sounds an emotional mess , and is using you as a substitute for her lost love .
14 The appeal runs until the end of this year and is asking everyone in the country to take part in a sponsored swim .
15 With no qualifications and precious little experience , she has taken on the job of Princess of Wales and is turning it into a significant career — and at the same time has brought up two small boys .
16 Now she has refined those skills with the help of judo and is putting them at the service of her country .
17 The benefit of this will be apparent when a force ten westerly has sent your brolly to Holland and is pummelling you in the face .
18 Inglewood , California-based Locus Computing Corp is attempting to raise its European profile , and is re-positioning itself as a specialist distributed computing consultancy , design , development and services outfit .
19 The Three Choirs vineyard is making an English equivalant of Beaujolais Nouveau , and is launching it on the French market .
20 Nour had taken me by the shoulders and was pushing me towards the pool .
21 Her eyes were adjusting to the darkness , and now she could see that he had folded his arms over the enticing broadness of his chest and was watching her with a challenging glitter in his eyes .
22 She 'd washed her hair and was drying it on the hessian towel .
23 Dad wasted no words and said that it was his bird in the box whereupon C … tried to brazen out the situation by saying he had found the cockbird in the garden and was taking it to the market in the morning .
24 It was all she was capable of saying for quite some time , for he had captured her lips again and was kissing her with a deeper intensity .
25 At luncheon , Bradbury 's Alsatian dog was found to have retrieved a boot of a German airman and was chewing it under the table .
26 Flavia Sherman had elected to spend the day shopping on the Rue Catinat and was to join them for the first hunt next morning .
27 Then , with a nod in the direction of the railwaymen — ‘ Thanks for your assistance , and for holding up the train' — he had grabbed Shiona unceremoniously by the wrist and was dragging her towards the door .
28 Raynor had fetched wine from a corner cupboard , and was heating it with a thin iron rod which had been resting in the fire 's embers .
29 She returned to the sitting room and struck Tam , who had knocked the bowl of biscuits from the table and was wolfing them off the carpet .
30 A uniformed policeman had stepped out from the kerb up ahead and was waving them into a side road .
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