Example sentences of "[vb base] be [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " All I want is to see her in a place where she 'll be cared for . |
| 2 | Erm Eric in , in Manchester from where he comes is extremely well known obviously within the G M B but his record he 's one of the individuals in the trade union movement that I think are becoming somewhat of a rarity these days I know that many of us when we first started in the movement were very easily able , and , and very relaxed about combining trade union and political activities together but of course as time goes on and , you do tend to become more involved in the one and the other , because of course it 's all time-consuming but I can honestly say that in Eric 's case he 's never deviated one iota from his commitment both to the trade union , this union in particular , and to the Party never deviated at all . |
| 3 | So erm I do n't whether or not I s I still do n't think they were ultimately revolutionary , I think they were just erm people who they think were exploiting them at the time sort of erm you know in a certain situation |
| 4 | I think we 're losing track of what this actually is Paul , there are , you 're trying to do two things at once what you 're trying to do , I think is use it as a learning process for children but this is an annual report for parents and I think that part of it a at least surely must be a report by the sa member of staff , by the department on how the child has done , by the member staff . |
| 5 | Mind , it is from er , what they do is send them through the post , just check 'em , make sure everything 's alright , ai n't it . |
| 6 | So it helps first of all when you 're setting up the spreadsheet I suppose you can create one formula then copy it instead of having to edit each one individually , erm but later on you might accidentally or maybe deliberately in some cases overtype a cell and er if you have to put it back again and what you probably do is copy it from the adjacent cell and then you have to study the formula to try and understand it , and then edit it if it was n't the copyable formula and , er it may take a little time to edit it but it could take you a lot longer to understand it . |
| 7 | The very first thing which they do is to destroy something on the island , which shows their masculinity . |
| 8 | All you do is apply it to a cleansed bare face and give it a few hours to work . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been watching you over the past few days . ’ |
| 10 | You 've put me down for holidays in September and I 've been telling you about the cruise in October for months . |
| 11 | Well kids stay all the time but they 've been using it as a doss house , you know , |
| 12 | It 's when you 've been flying them for a few days consecutively that it ( pardon the pun ) dawns on them that they could escape and find out what 's over the next hill . |
| 13 | Jimmy Page 's best guitar solo The one from Since I 've Been Loving You on the third album . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been chewing them for the past twenty minutes ! ’ |
| 15 | Except for it 's dead hot still if you 're not careful , if you 've been cooking it in the over or something |
| 16 | He said , ‘ No , I have statements , I have witnesses and we 've been surveying you for the last four months . ’ |
| 17 | Living is very important to me as I 've been doing it for a fair few years now . |
| 18 | A good A&R Manager can earn sixty or seventy grand , whilst successful A&R Directors can earn upwards of a hundred grand and considerably more if they 've been doing it for a while . ’ |
| 19 | Oh I 've been doing it for a long time have n't I ? |
| 20 | Well I 've been doing it for a |
| 21 | So it takes all the pain out of coming up with annual appraisals because you 've been doing it on an incremental basis . |
| 22 | I 'm actually , I am actually , I 've been party , they 've been circulating me with the correspondence of the residents ' association and I am very worried about this but do n't feel , until invited by the residents ' association , that we should do any more . |
| 23 | I 've been treating it as a wart . |
| 24 | so I 've been putting them in the washing machine so maybe |
| 25 | The stuff they 've been giving me in the ward was like a milk soup . |
| 26 | ‘ I have been expecting you for a week , ’ he said . |
| 27 | I have been telling them about the different sensitivity which Asian women have to their babies and the fact that you ca n't just go up to an Asian woman with the diet leaflet and say you should be giving your baby Cod Liver Oil , because 90 per cent of Asians in Wandsworth are vegetarians . |
| 28 | Detectives have been hunting him since the discovery of a bomb factory in a London flat shortly before last Christmas . |
| 29 | I gathered from the locals here that Leeds have been given something around the 2,500 mark so I expect they will go quite quickly . |
| 30 | I gathered from the locals here that Leeds have been given something around the 2,500 mark so I expect they will go quite quickly . |