Example sentences of "[vb base] be [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You need to put a lot of energy into your work and career at the beginning of June , Virgo , when all you really want is to create a secure home environment for yourself ! |
| 2 | ‘ But right now , all I want is to lead a normal life . ’ |
| 3 | The last thing you want is to start an involved conversation because when you come to do it for real , it can all seem a bit stale . |
| 4 | Mrs Gojkovic said later : ‘ What I now want is to get a middle-of-the-range hotel to cater for the tourist trade in London … this is going to enable me to do this . ’ |
| 5 | There 's nothing to suggest the crimes are connected at this stage but wqe are keeping an open mind . |
| 6 | And backs away , with what I believe is called a shiteating grin . |
| 7 | ‘ There was the ubiquitous confidentiality clause which we understand was to hide a two year rent free period . |
| 8 | Even those they later reject are found a loving home with a member of the Force . |
| 9 | The road that they have created I think is having a damaging effect on the team and is making it more difficult for us to get the results . |
| 10 | Again , yo you , the figure staying the same , all you do is to move a decimal point two places . |
| 11 | What they do is to introduce a new element into the concept of responsibility which involves more than free will and reason ; now a third party is present and is an active participant in the language game in which responsibility has a role . |
| 12 | I head south after what I think 's called a hearty breakfast and an even heartier cough . |
| 13 | Even those that survive are given a severe check and often produce poor growth . |
| 14 | Legal moves have begun to evict thousands of travellers who 've been holding an illegal festival at a beauty spot for the past five days . |
| 15 | Incidentally , I 've been using a better copy of PagePlus 2 ( due to be launched in March ) and I have to say I 'm very impressed . |
| 16 | As a project engineer , I 've been using a similar document for about the last six months . |
| 17 | ‘ They 've been gone a good while . ’ |
| 18 | Well but I mean , Brian was saying himself you know he ca n't remember at least he 's says he 's been working down London when he has n't been earning a hundred pound a day you know , it 's something , we just accepted it , he said over the years I 've been earning a hundred pound a day he says , and that was it you know yo yo just do . |
| 19 | I 've been dating a wonderful chick for two years now but she 's just too frigid , sex is out of the question so one night I masturbated and pulled too hard on the sensitive part of my penis , now the tissues around the foreskin are swollen and septic but I 'm too distressed and embarrassed to see a doctor and my f girlfriend wants nothing to do with me , I find it hard to urinate what can I do ? |
| 20 | They 've been given a better education , a longer and healthier life and higher expectations , but no future . |
| 21 | Besides being allowed to play mistress of this house for years , you 've been given a good allowance . |
| 22 | When you 've been given a fine brain like I have , you 've got to use it . |
| 23 | Kernaghan , who has actually won schoolboy caps for Northern Ireland added : ‘ I 've been given a big chance now to book my ticket for the World Cup finals in America and I 'll do everything I can to take it . ’ |
| 24 | And because they 've been given a tantalising series of glimpses of a fuller life , they 're aware and starving . |
| 25 | Now they 've been given a derelict school building , gutted by fire , for their new community association . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've been hearing a few things about this boy that s come to live at Beech Place . |
| 27 | We 've been getting a wee bit of light in now in the mornings , eh ? |
| 28 | ‘ You 've been making a bloody exception in my case ever since I 've been on the corporate payroll ’ he yelled . |
| 29 | ‘ Sounds as if you 've been making a few plans , Mr Calder ! ’ |
| 30 | Actually I 've been doing a few things this year when no one has recognised me and nobody knew . |