Example sentences of "[be] [adv prt] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | But I mean the main the main I mean in it in certain quarters we 've been down playing that aspect of it simply to get it through . |
2 | Walked through there and got to the simulator took our jackets off , pretended we 'd already been in walked straight past and we were right on site ! |
3 | There may not be obvious hits — and his two stabs at the dance floor , ‘ Groovature ’ and ‘ Feels Like The Richter Groove ’ may be a little too self-conscious — but the subtlety and power of the first single ‘ Baby ’ and its follow-up ‘ Colours Will Come ’ are in turns enchanting and evocative . |
4 | INDUSTRIAL SALESPERSON : We have helped a number of companies in the same kind of business as you are in to achieve considerable savings by the use of our stock control procedures . |
5 | I have noticed women at parties distracted and uneasy , seen them leave the group they 're in to join another , where their partner , they fear , is having too good a time , his attention too focused for comfort on another woman . |
6 | But Spittals is going to want to see results in a day or so otherwise we 're off to do some time on that robbery job . ’ |
7 | We 're off to spot some winners , and there are two tickets to be won for the big race |
8 | They 're out to get all they can out of them ! |
9 | ‘ At the moment there is no icon , there are no pop stars because most people who are involved in dance music are doing it in their back room , we 're out to change all that . ’ |
10 | We did a lot of talking , of course , and then it was decided that we could possibly raise some money by going to the League of Friends , which we did , and they very generously provided well in fact the whole total is about five thousand pounds , of which three and a half thousands represents the computer , and we 're about to go live , as it were , in a week or two . |
11 | I feel we 're about to make some kind of breakthrough , but it 's not there yet . |
12 | because the rules that we 've made for ourselves in maths , er we will , we 're about to break those . |
13 | Well , clearly the revival thing has moved up so that we 're about to have Eighties revivals very soon . |
14 | According to consultant Samantha Vandertoorn from The South London Natural Health Centre , the knowledge that you 're about to forget all your troubles in flotation could be just the incentive your body needs to get you to Westminster Bridge . |
15 | Here we 're about to get mawkish . |
16 | Boy used to think , I suppose we both work nights , really , it 's no wonder we 're as tired as each other , we 've been up working all night . |
17 | They are out to avenge last season 's defeat by Sheffield Wednesday and Steve Bruce says : ‘ It would be nice to erase that memory . |
18 | The company has been out telling run-of-the-mill customers not to expect any serious deliveries at least until October . |
19 | i have not heard of a similar setup at least — the only player who is remincent in norway of flo and almost as good in the air has been out injured this season so the setup has not been tried and maybe never will — at least it shows that coach Egil ‘ Drillo ’ Olsen — thinks — which might not be said of Mr Turnip . |
20 | And Bassett 's players are armed with a ready-made excuse if they lose at Loftus Road today — they 'd been out celebrating New Year 's Eve ! |
21 | He had been out working all day on a commission job for a fashionable hairdresser who was creating a branch in Los Angeles . |
22 | He was in better spirits and colour now , for he had been out walking several times with Luch since she had gently persuaded him to dress and go to the wedding . |
23 | Significantly , despite his huge investment in bloodstock , Sheikh Mohammed has never won the Epsom Derby and the pressure will be on to have this exceptional three-year-old line up for the world 's most famous Classic . |
24 | I 'm up to book fourteen . |
25 | I 'm up to book fifteen ! |
26 | Former Scarborough striker Steve Norris will be out to repeat last month 's scoring feat against his old side when he netted the only goal at Saltergate . |
27 | Punctuated by his own guffaws , he continued : ‘ Said ‘ No , sorry , Mr Meadows ; come this Wednesday I got to be out courting strong like . ’ |
28 | They 'll be out to beat that tomorrow . |
29 | Ought to be out playing all the time . |
30 | But I 'll be out to make sure I stay in the side . ’ |