Example sentences of "[be] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been nothing remotely resembling intellectual coherence . |
| 2 | Sporting names from past and present say there 's been no-one else to match the magic of Stan . |
| 3 | ‘ We can only guess at Allan Lamb 's motives in the Daily Mirror , but we hope they are nothing so base as money or , even worse , our nationality . ’ |
| 4 | We can only guess at Allan Lamb 's motives for his article in the Daily Mirror , but we hope that they are nothing so base as money or even worse our nationality . |
| 5 | And why , thought Adam , sleepless and sore in his damp cloak under the trees , why am I here to fret at it still ? |
| 6 | Am I being defiant , Anna thought now , pushing her metal cage of bottles down the aisle towards her allotted shelves , am I simply cocking a snook at Peter ? |
| 7 | And only now , two years after my return , am I finally beginning to make sense of my experience there . |
| 8 | Am I also leaving a mark here ? |
| 9 | ‘ Am I also to have no happiness ? ’ |
| 10 | when you come and stay with me , she , anyway she , she would n't , well in the end I just said that 's it I 've had enough I switched the car off and grabbed hold of her I said , frogmarched her in the car I said come on , I 'm going to bed , Rudy 's ready for bed I said I want you with me , so that I can keep me eye on you if I have to sit up all bloody night , of course when she was with me I picked her up and got her strong again and I say you have to be worth it , you 're better off without him then she come round and then she 'd say I know I am I just go down |
| 11 | Am I still covered under BUPA ? |
| 12 | P.S. I work for the Inland Revenue — am I still allowed to be a punk ? |
| 13 | Am I , am I definitely doing it ? |
| 14 | Why am I always given the responsibility of looking after the microphones , I 've done this for years well think about this brother here , he made cheese for years and he did n't like the job one bit , now is n't that strange , do you know why ? |
| 15 | Glancing at the revealing pictures on the video boxes , I ask myself : am I really prepared to see a five-months pregnant woman get fucked doggie style ? |
| 16 | We have an Amstrad DMP 3160 printer , which seems fine to me , but occasionally I could do with some fancy fonts and am I really looking for DTP ? |
| 17 | Most of the scriptures we 'll be looking at today is very familiar with us we know them and some of them we may be able to recite without even looking at the words , but er , if we can try and get you to think a little bit about them , then we 've achieved something , if we can get you to think that , you know , well am I dozing or am I really awake as I should be , then we 'll achieve more , in verse eleven it speaks there about er , you people knowing the season , well what people are we talking about ? |
| 18 | ‘ Am I really forcing you into this ? ’ |
| 19 | Am I really going to wear these in public ? |
| 20 | Jesus , am I really going to say this ? |
| 21 | If I faintly wish Isabella had had some intellectual interests — and she could have been very funny about them — am I perhaps wrong ? |
| 22 | How am I possibly going to explain ? |
| 23 | And yet , am I entirely satisfied with my lot ? |
| 24 | Am I ever like that ? |
| 25 | Boy , thought Jay , am I ever paying my dues . |
| 26 | I 'm sitting writing notes and I 'm thinking am I ever gon na look at these again ? |
| 27 | How am I ever going to tell my mother and Louise ? |
| 28 | When the sightseeing tour was over , Little Billy sat down again on a large branch and said to the whole company of Minpins , ‘ Look , I 've had a lovely time with you all , but how am I ever going to get home again ? |
| 29 | As I was going up to my cell it all hit me — am I ever going to get my daughter back ? |
| 30 | ‘ Am I there to speak on behalf of the council ? |