Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] be [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Please do n't think I 'm throwing money in your face . |
| 2 | Worse still , everyone will think I 'm making money from it , which I 'm not . ’ |
| 3 | Yeah , it 's the , it 's the with the word natural is n't it that er you know people often use the word natural to mean good and right and therefore something you should do , but of course no not always I mean if I said to you death is natural , nobody here would think I was advocating suicide or that er we should n't have hospitals to try and save people 's lives I mean er when you say death is natural , what you mean is death is one of those things that we just have to put up with , we 'd rather we did n't but we 're all gon na have to face it in the end , some of us sooner than others er but erm but there we are . |
| 4 | As I said at the beginning I think one should be wary about using the word natural , because sometimes people use it you know to promote something you know like on advertising you know it 's natural , must be good for you , but at the same time there are certain things that are natural that are very bad for you like death and if I were to say you know death is natural , nobody would think I was advocating suicide of course not . |
| 5 | Yes , well Bev was asking , I mean I was doing housework , oh , I was doing bits and pieces you know , and er getting me coat and all that and er she was asking questions and all that and Liz said I 'll pick you up at twenty past eleven , so Bev said alright then , so she come off the phone said she 'd go and have a look and apparently erm , it must of been yesterday if , if Liz is telling the truth she said to whoever are you going to do anything about this ? |
| 6 | And now we 've come to stage whereas I mean I were cleaning carpet every minute of day . |
| 7 | Sleepless and dishevelled , she fumes : ‘ He thinks I 'm glamorising motherhood ? |
| 8 | He thinks I 'm sitting knitting , thinking of my one true love , as far as he 's concerned I 'm bloody well engaged ! |
| 9 | ratatouille which is easy to make , I did n't know I was making ratatouille |
| 10 | When you reply , use words which let the caller know you are paying attention . |
| 11 | It 's it 's if you think about say you 're playing football . |
| 12 | Well you see it may be important where the information came from , you did n't get it from the cards , you say you were getting information from all directions . |
| 13 | I 'm downright flabbergasted to know you 're treatin' Dolly so unkind an' beatin' 'er as well . |
| 14 | But I was thinking if we you know , if I knew sort of what the sort of philosophy was behind it I might be able to incorporate that into , the office meetings and say we were having team briefings . |
| 15 | And one of the criminals who was hanged there was hurling abuse at him saying , you are not the Christ ! |
| 16 | Detective Chief Superintendent Barry Stewart also disclosed they were studying security video film from the Gateshead gas depot . |
| 17 | ‘ I remember I was at a council meeting and they mentioned they were having difficulty letting an old shop on the end of Redcar pier , ’ said Mr Brook . |
| 18 | Among those who say they 're owed money is a local business . |
| 19 | Some businessmen say they 're losing trade as a result because people are getting bored with Christmas weeks before it arrives . |
| 20 | You say they 're having milk , he went , what do you mean ? |
| 21 | ‘ I say they 're beating Retreat on the parade ground . ’ |
| 22 | But the police say they are taking action , but for operational reasons they ca n't reveal any details . |
| 23 | He does not know he is taking part in a battle . |
| 24 | Four years earlier he told Boswell that the difference between the two was that whereas Rousseau talked nonsense and knew he did — because he talked it so well — Monboddo , who talked an inferior brand , did not know he was talking nonsense . |
| 25 | ‘ Did you know he was contemplating remarriage ? ’ |
| 26 | I know dad , dad put that little fox or something , has he been putting stuff out for the |
| 27 | ‘ Has he been making water a lot ? ’ he asked . |
| 28 | And Northumbrian Water reported it was extracting water from the river once again after inlets at Broken Scar Treatment Works , near Darlington , were closed as a precautionary measure on Tuesday night , and emergency supplies brought into use . |
| 29 | For southern observers , a good way to find it is to join Canopus to Rigel by an imaginary line ; this will cross Columba and Lepus . |
| 30 | Dauntless found he was having trouble remembering how to speak . |