Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prisoners at Gloucester , some of whom are allowed out to work each day , say life inside is reasonable . |
| 2 | Erm prejudices come from all sorts of things , some of them are historical , some of them are generated out of things like football and arguments in the evening about good teams . |
| 3 | ‘ Some of them are holding up signs with names on them . ’ |
| 4 | She said most of them are lived in anyway so you can go anytime it suits . |
| 5 | May I inform him , as he has not answered my question , that the same careers service says that nothing has changed and that the same number of young people will not get YTS places , that many of them are fed up with turning up , only to be told that nothing is available and that the continued recession and closures mean that hundreds of them will have nothing to do ? |
| 6 | The actual DNA molecules I received from my parents are not passed to my children : replicas of them are passed on . |
| 7 | For convenience the most important of them are set out below . |
| 8 | The only mercy is that most of them are put out of their misery before they 've lived a tenth of their natural lifespan . |
| 9 | I had a close look at that table , obviously a matter of some interest and that 's the reason I return to this , as I read the table , there is a very substantial amount of double counting within it , for this reason , that all outstanding er planning permissions are included once , and there are then separate categories of allowance for all types of sites , namely large windfalls , conversions , small sites , and allocated sites , those are all put in , er or most of them are put in at thirteen years worth , that being the remainder of the plan period to two thousand and six , it will not have escaped you that if you include thirteen years worth all the existing commissions are part of that thirteen years , and so simplest approach to correct that table would simply to discount the outstanding commitments , because they 're all counted again as part of the thirteen years , I do have a secondary point that the allowance for conversions is very much higher than what seems to be happening , and in what is in the tables that er Mr Thomas drew it to your attention from the York City er appendix eight , so that er on on two counts , but mainly the double counting one there is a great deal of er erm optimism , if I can call it that , in that table . |
| 10 | The three of them are sitting round a low table with three cups of coffee , and Paul is trying to entertain the visitor . |
| 11 | Well yeah , I do n't think any of them are going up one this time . |
| 12 | A lot of them are going out of the area , but I think er I 'd imagine that a large majority or a a large proportion certainly would wish to stay in . |
| 13 | I been beaten up by hoods , framed on a murder rap , beaten up by cops , sent up the river , beaten up by prison bulls , got a last-minute reprieve from the governor , and been beaten up by my girl . ’ |
| 14 | I been coming down here watering most nights . ’ |
| 15 | Husband or wife do get excluded for instance because the marriage has not been a particularly happy one erm and there would therefore be no particular one why the deceased would leave anything to spouses erm but it 's worth saying so if that 's the case , to prevent an action coming along and saying Oi why am I not being there , why have I been left out ? |
| 16 | How long had I been driving about ? |
| 17 | They actually think that when Matt and I are dressed up as Jesuits we actually are Jesuits ! |
| 18 | Dixie and I are dressed up for the Island . |
| 19 | Lisa and I are getting back together . ’ |
| 20 | If that 's the way you 're going , Izzie and I are clearing off . ’ |
| 21 | Hamish and I are going over to the Island to see her next weekend . |
| 22 | Hi , After lengthy negotiations in private , Gav & I are going along to the Sunderland game together on Wednesday . |
| 23 | She thought : But tomorrow Jasper and I are going out together , and then it would be a whole evening of this fine racing thrilling excitement . |
| 24 | When Cousteau comes back with the divers and equipment , Van Gelder and I are going down with them to have a look at this plane . |
| 25 | ‘ Suzi and I are going back to her dance studio and she 's going to put me through the dance routine again . ’ |
| 26 | Having reluctantly cleared me of the charge of indulging in orgies with my entire sales force , you seem to have got it into your head that Lexy and I are carrying on some kind of affair . |
| 27 | But I am thinking back to the days before the war — the ‘ 39–45 war in Europe , that is — when a reporter was actually expected to know the place he was writing about . |
| 28 | In all this discussion , whether I am moving round talking to pairs of students at work or talking to the whole group , I see my role as provoking thought and reflection , not as telling students what to think or do . |
| 29 | And this gentleman in West Yorkshire would certainly have the blessing of many if he carried out his idea : ‘ Having taken early retirement , I am casting about for some way to supplement my pension . |
| 30 | ‘ Do you still think I am holding back on Surere ? ’ |