Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During his stay in Istanbul he was treated with the greatest respect by his former students , among whom are mentioned three important muderrises of the city , two from the Sahn and one from the Murad Pasa medrese . |
| 2 | Some of them are missing six years and their families do not know if they are alive . ’ |
| 3 | At last I am holding six beautiful tickets , three for reservations , all meticulously written on . |
| 4 | If I am to take four ferrets with me , my preference is for one box with one partition and two ferrets in each compartment . |
| 5 | I am using two 80W mercury vapour lights , from when my tank was planted . |
| 6 | I am using two 36″ tubes . |
| 7 | But my contacts in the trade — I am using three , all very discreet and understanding men — tell me the number of stones involved is very substantial . |
| 8 | If , on the other hand , I am taking six ferrets then I need two boxes — one for four as already described and another for the remaining two animals . |
| 9 | ‘ I am taking four days off to spend with my wife and young baby , ’ he said . |
| 10 | I am taking one final bit of advice before I bat it back to Noel Wilson in the Computing Service , and I imagine we will have reached some conclusion to the game before the end of June . |
| 11 | Or else — more generously — I am buying one shirt for myself and two for my son . |
| 12 | I feel that I should face up to this problem , now that I am nearing 40 and can no longer hope to ‘ grow out of it ’ . |
| 13 | By leaving him a half share in the house , I feel I am achieving two objects . |
| 14 | Now two months later I am teaching six classes a week , three movement and three breathing movement , and could n't be happier . |
| 15 | ‘ I am sending fifteen thousand instructions per second . ’ |
| 16 | That is despite the fact that I am paying hundreds of pounds a year for the privilege of a so-called collection service . |
| 17 | ‘ I am celebrating 10 years in management today and I am struggling to think of a worse away performance . ’ |
| 18 | Certainly , the idea that when I look at my spectacles and think ‘ So that 's where I put them ’ I am having thousands of other little thoughts at the same time is a silly idea , and some would say that the doctrine of the holism of the mental is just a silly idea . |
| 19 | ( What justifies me in writing 20,002 after 20,000 when I am adding 2 ? |
| 20 | I am following two women , heavy bundles on their backs . |
| 21 | And think of a life ahead sitting at a machine tapping out : ‘ Dear Sir , At your request I am forwarding twenty barrels of salted herring to your wife 's boudoir . |
| 22 | Provided I am focused 100 per cent , I will win it . |
| 23 | Every minute , say , I am delivered one of these standard electrons . |
| 24 | If so , I 'm meeting two girls at a cop-shop on the corner of Green Street and there 's a pub next to it called the Wagon & Horses . |
| 25 | I 'm seeking two British agents who were last heard of months ago . ’ |
| 26 | Maggie was stabbing her finger at the different plates on the table , and her aunt wagged her head and pursed her lips before she said , flatly , ‘ I 'm courting one of the airmen ; he comes to Donald 's farm . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ And this week [ early September ] I 'm brewing 40 barrels . |
| 28 | I always wore thirty five , thirty five and a half , thirty six , now I 'm wearing thirty seven . |
| 29 | Do you want to know why I 'm wearing two pairs of knickers because |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm turned fifteen , Daddy ’ — her voice trembling now — ‘ I 'm not a child any longer . |