Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 All Hanne knows is that the two of them are staying somewhere in Copenhagen for an indefinite period . ’
2 Erm prejudices come from all sorts of things , some of them are historical , some of them are generated out of things like football and arguments in the evening about good teams .
3 This ‘ hidden interest rate ’ may also add to the rates shown above for shop accounts , trading checks and tallymen : the rates shown for them are based solely on interest charged by them .
4 no I 'm not , I 'm sorry I said some of them are raised now for the first time , I was about to say I 'm not complaining I 'm simply pointing out , standing here without the instructions I ca n't deal with the matter
5 I mean we had a lot of them are run anyway on credit , there 's no real capital lying behind those businesses .
6 May I inform him , as he has not answered my question , that the same careers service says that nothing has changed and that the same number of young people will not get YTS places , that many of them are fed up with turning up , only to be told that nothing is available and that the continued recession and closures mean that hundreds of them will have nothing to do ?
7 The only mercy is that most of them are put out of their misery before they 've lived a tenth of their natural lifespan .
8 I had a close look at that table , obviously a matter of some interest and that 's the reason I return to this , as I read the table , there is a very substantial amount of double counting within it , for this reason , that all outstanding er planning permissions are included once , and there are then separate categories of allowance for all types of sites , namely large windfalls , conversions , small sites , and allocated sites , those are all put in , er or most of them are put in at thirteen years worth , that being the remainder of the plan period to two thousand and six , it will not have escaped you that if you include thirteen years worth all the existing commissions are part of that thirteen years , and so simplest approach to correct that table would simply to discount the outstanding commitments , because they 're all counted again as part of the thirteen years , I do have a secondary point that the allowance for conversions is very much higher than what seems to be happening , and in what is in the tables that er Mr Thomas drew it to your attention from the York City er appendix eight , so that er on on two counts , but mainly the double counting one there is a great deal of er erm optimism , if I can call it that , in that table .
9 A lot of them are going out of the area , but I think er I 'd imagine that a large majority or a a large proportion certainly would wish to stay in .
10 . I put the two of them are sleeping together in the same room and the other one 's in , we 've put her back in with us .
11 The woody floras of those forests that are surrounded on all sides by arid woodlands consist of species with wide neotropical distributions and many of them are found elsewhere in a wide range of habitats while few are restricted to montane forest .
12 I been beaten up by hoods , framed on a murder rap , beaten up by cops , sent up the river , beaten up by prison bulls , got a last-minute reprieve from the governor , and been beaten up by my girl . ’
13 I been looking forward to this all day .
14 Dixie and I are dressed up for the Island .
15 Hamish and I are going over to the Island to see her next weekend .
16 Hi , After lengthy negotiations in private , Gav & I are going along to the Sunderland game together on Wednesday .
17 When Cousteau comes back with the divers and equipment , Van Gelder and I are going down with them to have a look at this plane .
18 ‘ Suzi and I are going back to her dance studio and she 's going to put me through the dance routine again . ’
19 He 's convinced that my lover and I are waiting eagerly for that event , so he 's written a will that leaves me destitute .
20 I must emphasize that I am thinking not of antiracism as a political objective , or a goal which emerges alongside other issues from the daily struggles of black people , from the practice of community organizations and voluntary groups , even from the war of position which must be waged inside the institutions of the state .
21 I am thinking instead of antiracism as a much more limited project defined simply , even simplistically , by the desire to do away with racism .
22 I am thinking here of two distinct but linked operations which constitute racism as a discoursive practice .
23 I am thinking here of topics which still reflect our interests but might include more on , say , conservation , microscopy , taxonomic computing , and other new areas we might be moving towards .
24 You had to think of a method and the method was particularly difficult , I think , on the tank farm one where this is the sort of method that I am thinking here of how , how on earth am I going to build it on , on the hotel ?
25 I am thinking particularly of one of the Bushmen you knew who was so good at imitating a professor .
26 I am thinking particularly of repairs in schools and housing , which can generate some employment .
27 But I am thinking back to the days before the war — the ‘ 39–45 war in Europe , that is — when a reporter was actually expected to know the place he was writing about .
28 And this gentleman in West Yorkshire would certainly have the blessing of many if he carried out his idea : ‘ Having taken early retirement , I am casting about for some way to supplement my pension .
29 In parenthesis I should say that I am passing quickly over the significance of these four levels of understanding .
30 ‘ Do you still think I am holding back on Surere ? ’
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