Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] [prep] [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He often says unkind things to me , blaming me for the break-up of our marriage and accusing me of being a useless wife . |
| 2 | Jamie has no demons like you and defies you with being a skunk Repulsive to humanity and most of the animal kingdom , but irresistible to another skunk ! |
| 3 | On closer inspection the bundle of rags rose and revealed itself to be a woman , filthy dirty , her skin so grimy she was almost invisible in the gloom . |
| 4 | Yeah and she 's totally focused , she 's er , I think she 's got two children erm her husbands works , she 's got two children she 's brought up and developed herself to be a branch manager or assistant branch manager er she 's got a degree h now do n't listen to this Lorraine , who it said mid thirties |
| 5 | Geoffrey Fisher went from Repton to be Bishop of Chester and invited him to be an examining chaplain ; which he accepted — it would mean two or three visits a year — and was surprised to find how friendly Fisher was when they were not in the relation of boy and headmaster . |
| 6 | He can simply state in evidence that he examined the licence and found it to be a current provisional . |
| 7 | The man took a couple of steps back as they headed for him ; but then they stopped , as if they 'd sensed his fury and found it to be a wall that they hesitated to scale . |
| 8 | Changing direction , she hurried towards the place , and found it to be a large open space , surrounded by little shops , their shutters closed now , but by the legends she could just see painted above their doors they were given over to trade . |
| 9 | They would not be there unless they shared the European ideal and believed themselves to be an integral part of the process of European unity . |
| 10 | All she knew of Travis was that he despised her and believed her to be a thief . |
| 11 | He reported diligent perusal of the Dictionary and Figures and believed them to be the ‘ compleatest work of that kind extant ’ , but expressed his regret that many American plants had been omitted : he hoped to remedy this by sending specimens of growing plants within the next few years . |
| 12 | And , just over the hill at North Stainmore , at Dummah Hill , Great-Uncle Isaac Bayles was looking after Daddy , and training him to be a farmer . |
| 13 | In the debate on a proposed Z$40,000,000 ( about US$8,500,000 ) allocation for the ministry , members of the House denounced it as a " completely useless " department and declared it to be the Ministry of Political Affairs ( which had been headed by Mutasa until its closure in June — ibid. ) under a different name . |
| 14 | In 797 Alcuin wrote to Cenwulf praising his goodness and nobility and exhorting him to be a model Christian king . |
| 15 | She could see Alison 's roses and felt them to be a rebuke . |
| 16 | In fact , Theda thought it a beautiful old building , and felt it to be a pity that it should have been allowed to go to rack . |
| 17 | Distress smote Theda as she took in his condition and knew herself to be the cause of it . |
| 18 | Ramsey thought this an injustice ; he decided that his bishop was vague and naïve in his theology , someone who took up new ideas with enthusiasm and with very little precision of thought ; and yet he saw that the bishop disliked controversy and was hurt by it , and thought him to be a friend and a man of prayer . |
| 19 | George made five journeys to the United States , both as an amateur and as a professional , and proved himself to be the world 's greatest middle-distance runner , so starting a British tradition which was continued by Wooderson , ( Sir ) Roger Bannister , Derek Ibbotson , Steve Ovett , Sebastian Coe , and Steve Cram . |
| 20 | For a moment she was taken aback , realising for the first time that she had n't explained herself very well , then , gathering her wits together , she retorted briskly , ‘ If you had n't assaulted me and accused me of being a burglar I would have told you that the Svend I 'm looking for is a student who met my sister at the Roskilde music festival and afterwards entertained her and her friends here in this apartment for several nights . ’ |
| 21 | Kiwi captain Martin Crowe said Aqib had sworn at umpire Brian Aldridge and accused him of being a cheat . |
| 22 | It introduces a wonderful idea , that strangers from afar find the Christ and discover him to be the Saviour of the world . |
| 23 | It had a tarnished brass knocker showing a pixie cobbling shoes and declaring itself to be a present from Cornwall . |
| 24 | He had encountered most of these in the early days of political socialism in this country and considered them to be a thoroughly unreliable lot . |
| 25 | Multiple Configurations — you may remember we reviewed EasyBoot in the December issue of PPC , and considered it to be a great boon . |
| 26 | He came upon Mary and anointed her to be the mother of the Lord . |