Example sentences of "be [prep] [verb] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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1 | At present the beer is bottom-fermenting in the lager style but Bitburger are considering turning it into a top-fermenting beer . |
2 | It was n't left there and I ca n't think what the chances are of finding it in a place this size . |
3 | She was so out of it that it would have been like making it with a corpse . |
4 | bloody blue moon and you may not be worth putting on your and calling every six weeks Mandy , but , it might be worth asking it in a more open way . |
5 | Foolishly she had imagined it would be like inviting herself into a trap , because the trapped feeling was still there . |
6 | You may wish to have a different choice of fish , but the set up should still be the same if you were to chose something like a couple of Siamese Tiger fish ( Datnoides microlepsis ) for the upper swimming layers ( see July 1992 issue of PFK ) . |
7 | I do n't know whether it 's worth putting it as a separate |
8 | It is through changing them in a more fundamental way that the drugs cause addiction . |
9 | Everything is spelt out to them , it is like getting it on a silver platter , so they can go off into another world for half and hour and get lost in this pretend world , ’ said Kylie . |
10 | Yet before it does so it destroys much else , and the devastation at the end of King Lear is a sufficient proof of the destructiveness of hypocrisy , once it is believed , Trusting hypocrites such as these is like offering oneself as a test-bed for the cultivation of some deadly bacillus . |
11 | The usual way in which his power is circumscribed is by limiting it to a right to break for certain specified purposes . |
12 | ‘ The first was for saving you from a fate worse than death with Doreen — but what was the second reason ? ’ |