Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The deictic elements and terms are constantly helping us to sort from possible contexts , helping us to move from symbolic meaning to some kind of reconstructed indexical meaning . |
| 2 | I am thus asking you to step outside this door and see for yourself . ’ |
| 3 | On the continent , political movements are already emerging which thrive on the flow of refugees and exploit naked nationalism . |
| 4 | The Government must recognise that there needs to be a positive approach to young offenders if we are not to encourage them to grow into hardened and repetitive offenders . |
| 5 | Yes , it had not been easy knowing what to do for the best . |
| 6 | Well the first few levels are just to get you used to the game , but , the other 100 levels will test you to your limit with the addition of elevators , boiling acid , lasers , lava acid and anti-grav . |
| 7 | you 're just inviting me to walk into your house ? |
| 8 | They may say , Oh wow no we 're just having something done at the surgery rebuilt . |
| 9 | ‘ We 're not asking them to stay with Queen 's for the rest of their lives , just take the opportunity to represent the university when they are studying here . |
| 10 | we 've got the fencing well no , no you ca n't Jane because you 're not insured you see until |
| 11 | ‘ You 're not saying he came to the salon just for conversation ? ’ |
| 12 | But while you 're here leave it covered like this and it 's a bit . |
| 13 | If we keep giving him pyjamas and dressing-gowns , we 're simply encouraging him to stay in bed all day long , do n't you see ? ’ |
| 14 | I do n't even like you ; you 're virtually blackmailing me to work for you , and now you want me to pretend to be your girlfriend ? ’ |
| 15 | The jokers in the pack , Swansea 's Pooh Sticks are always claiming they record in exotic places for some reason best known to themselves . |
| 16 | Coping strategies are unthinkingly deployed which tend at the least to be ineffective , and which often produce unintended , unwanted side-effects that breach the same or other injunctions . |
| 17 | We are often asked what happens to the left-over books . |
| 18 | Managers are often shrieking you know about what 's happening next rather than you know , all their players are jumping with joy all over each other and you think and they 're saying get in your positions . |
| 19 | ( People are now inviting me to play in all manner of matches to boost the takings which is one way of getting a game as wicky ) . |
| 20 | Three general changes are now modifying what has until recently been described as a ‘ binary ’ system of higher education . |
| 21 | If an objective is to be effectively measured it needs to be very clearly defined . |
| 22 | I 'm not expecting you to invest in new technology to take advantage of this architecture . |
| 23 | Erm and and I know you I 'm not expecting you to comment on your colleagues , but let me quote something else that Peter Lilley said , The massive expansion of the welfare state since the war , has not been accompanied by any diminution of social problems . |
| 24 | And if you work on that presumption , and I 'm not suggesting you creep around frightened of your own shadow going at a slow speed , just wor working with deliberation and making sure you move through the situation competently , but do n't take anything for granted . |
| 25 | I 'm not saying they have to be any particular shape , not conventionally beautiful in any sense . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm not saying it happened on this occasion , but it is not unknown for a private company to take a loss on government contracts to get a foot in the door . ’ |
| 27 | I 'm not having them stay at my house , it 's not big enough anyway |
| 28 | I 'm not having owt to do with this ! |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm not having you acting like a kid this evening . |
| 30 | " Well , I 'm not having anything to do with it . |