Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Losing at home four two to Swindon , their arch rivals after being two in front , but I 'd just like to make one point clear ; do n't blame manager Brian Horton because all of Oxford 's matches that they 've lost this season has been through their own fault : lack of character out there on the pitch , there 's nothing Brian can do sat on the bench . |
| 2 | I 've been , I 've been through them all and er there 's only one or two that I 've not actually had any contact with actually one way or another . |
| 3 | But what if at the moment of birth the whole of one 's life to come were to flash before one 's eyes and then to be immediately wiped away , forgotten , while we laboriously go through all the pleasures and sorrows , all the hopes and frustrations that make up a life , meeting people and parting from them , listening to them and speaking to them , to go through tasting all we taste in the course of our long lives , seeing all we see , every leaf at every moment and every cloud at every moment , and hearing all we hear , the hooting of every car and the singing of every bird and every performance of the Brandenburg concertos , go through all that , in time , very slowly , though we had already been through it all , every moment of it , leaf , cloud , concerto , in one brief but intense instant , everything perfectly formed but over in less than a second ? |
| 4 | I 've been through it all . |
| 5 | But Mr Bond has been through it all before . |
| 6 | Then , stretching a point , he declared : ‘ Now I 've been through it all , I have to admit I had a ball . ’ |
| 7 | Having just returned from Scotland 's weekend squad sessions at St. Andrews , two tough dollops of over three hours each , he was feeling the effects , but clearly revels in his involvement : ‘ National sessions are at a higher intensity than those at club and district level in that you are working with very good and experienced players but it is just so enjoyable setting hard challenges whilst you are learning so much from players who have been through it all so often before ’ . |
| 8 | She has been through it all with such tremendous courage and coolness . ’ |
| 9 | Larry has been through it all . |
| 10 | Advice , prospectuses , fact sheets , helplines , career and benefits experts , course counsellors , businesswomen , and mature returners and learners , who had been through it all and come out stronger , were all there to persuade women learning is for life and it 's never too late or too hard to start . |
| 11 | He 's been through it all , has ol' Slow Hand — alcoholism and drug addiction , and most recently the tragic death of his only child — but as this record amply demonstrates , he 's still capable of mixing it when called upon to do so . |
| 12 | We 've been through it all together |
| 13 | ‘ We 've been through it all together , And we 've had our ups and downs … ’ and money grabbing directors . |
| 14 | I do n't see what 's wrong with frankly , she 's been through it all and she 's hung on in there |
| 15 | I 've been through it all before , and I felt sure you were going to get hurt . |
| 16 | I would have discovered once I 'd been through it all . |
| 17 | He 's been through it poor bleeder . |
| 18 | If it had not been for their long , soul-searching conversations about the Koran and the life of the Prophet , he would probably not , now , be sleeping with her . |
| 19 | The battered red car arrived at 7pm , Maria Yackle was dressed as she had been for her previous visit , but because it was rather cold , wore a jacket made of synthetic fur as well . |
| 20 | The NVA representative who wrote to tell her of the decision explained that although he must have ‘ seemed unsympathetic in the past ’ , it had been for her own good . |
| 21 | It was short and straight , which was more than could be said for her mouth , which was curvy and rather wider than it should have been for her ashen , wedge-shaped face . |
| 22 | If it had n't been for her fat friend , she would have overslept . |
| 23 | What a tragedy that must have been for them all . |
| 24 | He thought back to how it had been for him last winter . |
| 25 | But before we jump to the conclusion that Pound had simply had a brainstorm , or had been trapped by misplaced compassion for Dunning as a lame duck , we ought to consider another possibility — that imagism , and Pound 's endorsement of Ford 's insistence on ‘ the prose tradition ’ , had never been for him more than an aberration , though in the short term a very profitable one , from a way of feeling that impelled him always toward the cantabile , a proclivity that would , in the interests of melody , tolerate notably eccentric diction . |
| 26 | He has been one of the driving forces behind Musselburgh 's revival and had it not been for his stout efforts earlier in the season , the Stoneyhill club would never have been in the promotion challenge . |
| 27 | Cameron would have faced a High Court sentence had it not been for his good record , the sheriff added . |
| 28 | Brian had given Scarlet the impression that , if it had not been for his first wife and her child , and his second wife and her child , he would have been living a life of carefree splendour in a house adjacent to the park . |
| 29 | ‘ No , ’ she mumbled , sagging suddenly , so that if it had n't have been for his firm grip she probably would have sunk to the ground , ‘ I did n't think . |
| 30 | Adam would have faced almost certain death if it had n't been for his quick thinking . |