Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] five " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm counting , I 'm counting five is n't it silly they put on there one point five quarts ? |
| 2 | I thought she said well I 'm allowed five bags . |
| 3 | MY WORST and only health problem developed after I was mugged five years ago outside the Embassy Club in Manchester , which I 've run for 32 years . |
| 4 | For considerable amounts of time , I was paying five or six salaries . |
| 5 | , ah no , but you , but you were n't aware of that because you were on the floor , as I was saying five minutes ago . |
| 6 | In the old days , which is to say five years ago or so , the phrase you would most often hear issuing from the yet-to-be father was , ‘ Yes , of course we 'll have children . |
| 7 | I mean you 're taking five percent of your money when you first go into the fund , and , and that 's an exceptional er amount of money that you wo n't get back , but if i if they 're saying well we 'll invest the whole lot for you , but you 've got to keep with us , w then y you 've got the option . |
| 8 | you 're getting five pound not three-pound-fifty . |
| 9 | They 're all great ; one star is completely acceptable ; you 're comparing five of the best dinghy sailing centres in the Mediterranean ! |
| 10 | well I thought well if it checks me another six months at least when they say have you got any experience , but as I say I 'm still in touch with Mencap and I 'm still in touch with mine and I 've also er put in for , what they call them mobility insistence for the Princess Marina which again an education and you just go in and be , be a friend to somebody and you take them out for an hour , er a couple of hours , you , and you 're paid five pounds eighty for a two hour session |
| 11 | So I mean you you 're talking five hundred pound are n't you ? |
| 12 | The Lofthouse and Middlesmoor Prize Band played a selection of music ; a note in the feast programme remarked on the fact that the band comes from the upper end of Nidderdale , from which dale hailed the Netherdale Singers , who were paid five shillings — according to the church accounts — for appearing at Burnsall Feast in 1740 . |
| 13 | but if you were to spend five years learning weird codes |
| 14 | you were allowed five . |
| 15 | I mean seven years continual dredging for seven years apart from a month they in dock and you were taking out eight hundred tonne every hopper load and some days you were doing five loads and sometimes four loads , was a lot of mud we dumped so much mud out at erm near the Cork Lightship , now you would think they would level theirself off would n't you and if they did n't that up . |
| 16 | you were doing five hundred mile an hour . |
| 17 | Futch , who 's trained five world champions and who originally rejected Bowe , says : ‘ I was in my late 70s after Bowe 's Olympic defeat and I did n't want to waste a minute of my time on someone who was n't 100 per cent dedicated . ’ |
| 18 | A police helicopter has been called in to search for an armed robber who 's raided five petrol stations in three weeks . |
| 19 | Who is feeding five thousand kids |
| 20 | She was given five pints on admission . |
| 21 | She was diagnosed five years ago , about the time David Markham went out of her life . ’ |
| 22 | She was followed five minutes later by an angry Carole , suitcase in hand , who was to find that she was unable to quit the hotel until midnight . |
| 23 | She was arrested five years ago by a Cairo narcotics squad who found £3m worth of heroin hidden in a concealed compartment of an ornamental wooden elephant she was carrying through the capital 's airport . |
| 24 | As it is , we are given five pages which briefly outline the genesis and original publication of the seven essays and only the briefest contextualisation of the pieces within a broader historical framework . |
| 25 | ‘ We are switching five instrument and five electrical technicians from days to the five shifts , ’ said Ian Mincher . |
| 26 | Thank you Mr chairman , just one point Mr , we 're not voting ourselves five percent more , we 're taking five percent off next year 's allowance and putting it to this one so it 's a negative rollover , so we 're actually spending some of next year 's money this year . |
| 27 | We 're getting five veg , five fruit , twelve timber and what 's it seven |
| 28 | We 're talking five thousand revs here . |
| 29 | Scottish Nuclear 's ‘ Follow That Dog ’ sweatshirt are about to set a new trend in Scottish fashion — and we 're giving five away in our special Bulletin competition . |
| 30 | We 're spending five million , if you look , er , on services for people with learning disabilities . |