Example sentences of "be [conj] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could have been that someone forced him down , and held his face under . |
| 2 | In the end , I 'd say , ‘ Yes , you are but I love you anyway , ' ’ In truth the experience had a dreadful effect on her marriage and on her relationship with her brothers and sisters , who fell out with her . |
| 3 | yeah , well I was gon na say those new five P's are but you see you just get the new five P's and low and behold they will produce something else |
| 4 | Could it be that someone took him up on the extravagant wagers he offered constantly during the election and that he 's been forced to three ball his monkey suit to meet his gambling debts ? and then there was the letter in Saturday 's Darlington and Stockton Times from stop-at-home Nick ThorneWallis , Labour chairman of Darlington council 's transport committee . |
| 5 | I can leave it on the stove or take if off , and either way it wo n't be the same as it would be if we ate it now . ’ |
| 6 | And these are just sort of piling up together well they they can all be if we choose it right we can make it usually make it one . |
| 7 | My parents and I saw her in the school play and they thought she was so wonderful that they invited her to lunch — to make me see what I could be if I did it right . |
| 8 | Might be but I doubt it so no it 's not John Major but it was a good thought Terry . |
| 9 | It must be because it gets me out of the tent in the middle of the night to stand and contemplate the untroubled majesty of The Plough . |
| 10 | But if you do , even though the evidence seems stacked against me , it can only be because you love me too , for that 's the only thing that could overcome a mistrust as deeply rooted as yours . ’ |
| 11 | He wondered how long it would be before he saw them again , returning from space a rich man . |
| 12 | Er ploughmen and horsemen were the elite of farm workers and the sons would could only aspire to do what they did and And er eventually I suspect it got to be a little more organized and er they had these little games of of ploughing matches , maybe in a rudimentary farm to begin with , but it eventually came to be as we see it today , over a long period of time . |
| 13 | Being as you want them out . |
| 14 | It 's not the buying them that 's cunning , it 's just that I ca n't help being grateful ( I did n't actually say I was grateful , but I was n't sharp ) , it 's that he presents them so humbly , with such an air of please-don't-thank-me and I-deserve-it-all . |
| 15 | The terrible thing about the modern attitude to death is that we pass it on to our children . |
| 16 | Yes , I mean my view is that we put it out for members we see what the uptake is and then we can always look at the list and ring certain other people |
| 17 | I mean I one of the things that I 've always sort of had in mind is that we put it down in the reception area . |
| 18 | I mean , maybe what I 'm hearing from the committee is that we take it back and look at the criteria and the ground rules . |
| 19 | The proof of the pudding is in the eating , and the proof of people skills is that they make it as likely as possible that we achieve our objectives with people . |
| 20 | The only problem with the guides is that they tell you little of the quality of the goods in the shop . |
| 21 | The problem for the media is that they find it very difficult to secure agreement across the political spectrum as to what would be accepted as impartially presented news . |
| 22 | The importance of these articles is that they remind us forcibly of the false dawn which often surrounds new treatments . |
| 23 | What does worry me though , is that I think he still thought it was a ‘ female sex aid device ’ ! |
| 24 | ‘ What I require , Rasputin , is that you let me out of here and let me see Elaine . ’ |
| 25 | Erm , my proposal is that you keep them separately . |
| 26 | Cara had made it sound so easy when she 'd said ‘ All I 'm asking is that you bring me back relevant facts and answers ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ Alcohol did me the greatest favour , which is that it brought me down to earth . |
| 28 | The advantage of this self-imposed discipline is that it forces you deliberately to do all that is involved in learning from experience and at the same time markedly increases the lessons learned from your various activities . |
| 29 | Properly speaking , the force ( and also the weakness ) of a personal testimony is that it tells us as much about the person who believes as about the content of what he believes . |
| 30 | The play 's strength is that it draws on Eliot 's earlier work and makes that earlier work transferable to the West End , a triumph in itself ; its weakness , like that of most of the plays , is that it offers us little we can not find more concisely and intensely expressed in the poetry . |