Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is used mainly where tantrums are severe and where it is felt that stopping them altogether is too big a first step . |
| 2 | In the 1990s the tasks are far more complex and conflictual and the social workers who must take them on are already part of the system that has to change . |
| 3 | Even at the age of about 13 I 'd be guided only by people who I thought knew something about the game , and who were not thing to stitch me up-I was always thinking people were trying to stitch me up for some reason . |
| 4 | Greenaway 's obsessively elaborating and allusive aesthetics have always been strangely at odds with his reductive philosophy , but the insistent paranoid patterns — lists , correspondences , arcane games — which in earlier films served to bind them together are much less in evidence in the new film . |
| 5 | But the formula which brought them together was widely , and justifiably , condemned as unwieldy and tedious . |
| 6 | I do n't know what sort of a pistol he held to their heads , but I personally was quite happy and had never been looked after so well in my life . |
| 7 | Many of the routine social situations we find ourselves in are clearly rule-governed , but it is often extremely difficult to specify exactly what the rules are or what are the potential breaches of the rules . |
| 8 | One can not really believe that the whole of the world is going to go on maximizing production of agricultural produce , when — I much is already destined to end up as mountains of grain , or butter , or meat — or lakes of wine or olive oil . |
| 9 | What made me finally decide to insist on this was when I realized that had you been a man , Miranda , or had I not been personally involved with you , I would n't have hesitated to ask for these shares . ’ |
| 10 | I know this because after my machine arrived , the salesman whose job it would have been to persuade me to buy it , had I not been too quick for him , came to see me anyway . |
| 11 | Will I not be awful heavy ? ’ |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | My not being there is hardly likely to lose us the account if Ru — ’ She stopped herself just in time . |
| 14 | I told her I just was just going to take photographs . |
| 15 | , by the time I get my Best is so late on in the , in the sort of time , see I wo n't get that one until Sunday . |
| 16 | Nor have I ever been more sorely tried . |
| 17 | I do n't think I ever been so happy . |
| 18 | Most importantly , I 'm infinitely happier now than I ever was before . |
| 19 | After a while she shrugged her shoulders and said , ‘ You know , I do n't think I ever was really committed to Christianity . ’ |
| 20 | She was still trying to cope with what she was beginning to realise was her over-reaction , though she could n't have said quite why she should feel so alarmed , when he told her coolly , ‘ You misunderstand me , Miss Everett , ’ and was on his feet too as , looking arrogantly down at her , he stated bluntly , ‘ Should I ever be so lucky as you suggest , then , be sure of it , I 'd throw away my rabbit 's foot , ’ and having forthrightly left her under no illusion but that should he ever get saddled with her then he would consider his luck had run out , he went on toughly , ‘ I already know the answer , but , for the record , I want to hear it from you — are you just playing around with Travis for the pure hell of it — or , ’ his voice had taken on a grim edge , ‘ are you in love with him ? ’ |
| 21 | I always was rather patronizing towards Anne . |
| 22 | I probably was actually . |
| 23 | Which meant I probably was like awake to start with , because I , although I got up at seven , I still was n't ready to go to bed at eleven , cos it was still too early , and usually I go to bed about two . |
| 24 | Nearly was yours nearly was nearly got it I 'm supposed to remember when I put these tapes on , half past seven till quarter past eight twenty past eight to when God this is gon na be awful , I shall never start , no leave that . |
| 25 | Where , however , the settlor is not domiciled or not resident or not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom in any year of assessment the term does not include income arising under a settlement in that year in respect of which the settlor , if he were actually entitled thereto , would not be chargeable to income tax by deduction or otherwise by reason of his now being so domiciled , resident or ordinarily resident . |
| 26 | ‘ Look , Donald , ’ he said , ‘ I really am incredibly sorry about all of this . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ And I really am most grateful for your errand . ’ |
| 28 | I do n't want to get over-emotional about this but I really am massively proud of the things that The Smiths have done and achieved and from that point of view , of course , it 's all really sad … |
| 29 | ‘ I really am all right now , ’ Isabel insisted quietly , keeping her face lowered . |
| 30 | Remembering the turtle soup , Alexandra said in confusion , ‘ I 'm — so sorry but — but I really am dreadfully hungry . ’ |