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Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1	The intention in suggesting them is to stimulate further thought about other possible frames .
2	Nor does the Chancellor demand free elections for East Germans immediately , his aides say , but would first like to see them be given greater personal freedom and basic human rights .
3	I quickly discovered that in her view it did n't have one , and that the only reason she had agreed to see me was to get this across once and for all .
4	440 , where an agreement by the father of illegitimate children to pay the mother for maintaining them was held enforceable by Cockburn C.J. and Byles J. on the ground that the liability imposed upon the mother of illegitimate children under the then relevant statute ( 4 & 5 Will .
5	The curtain which divided them was wearing thin .
6	I do n't think I am taking this line merely because I have been corrupted by a philosophical training and can not come off the fence .
7	I do n't think I 'm eating enough to actually make myself go .
8	The Citizen 's Advice Bureau has got a pro forma which if a person goes in and says I think I ought to be getting , I think I , I do n't think I 'm getting sufficient income support or I 'm going to apply for income support .
9	‘ What do you think I 'm doing all this for ?
10	What the hell do you think I 'm doing all this for ?
11	‘ Do n't think I 'm doing this out of pity for you , ’ he called .
12	Now if I were to suggest to you that in some gay bars the ‘ lads ’ pop off to the toilets that number of times to indulge themselves , then you might think I was repeating lurid propaganda put about by the puritan league .
13	‘ Why should I force myself to pretend I 'm enjoying this ? ’
14	Then two years ago I realised I was going broke .
15	I realised I was missing half the jokes , so I mugged up from a textbook — and here I am , ready for more ! ’
16	Erm I thought that erm I , I mean I was getting some things that John has n't , has n't mentioned , erm when you mentioned the wife being there erm when you , when you were introducing the C C Q you then assumed that you would be coming back with recommendations
17	I think that would do the trick but preparing handou I mean I was doing those till two , this lot for you this mor I 'm absolutely y'know it 's quite hard work when you 're concurrently teaching all the time .
18	I mean I 'm finding that you know through it because I 'm sort of straining all the time I 'm getting terrible headaches and all of the
19	You mean I 'm to eat more ? ’
20	Oh yeah I mean I 'm saying two a day , but erm if you can get three a day , I 'd prefer it because
21	The Stephen They 're not all I mean I 'm saying that 's right but that some of them there are more than one answer to .
22	Well I 'm I 'm not some I would n't I would n't say that I mean I 'm saying that erm
23	And of course what defeated me was knows this fellow that is an ambulance driver and he 's classed as working class .
24	‘ How did you know I was imagining that ?
25	Do you know I was thinking this the other day , do you think , say there was some girl like , let's just take Flick no , somebody , who do , who do , who do the people think 's real , who do the blokes always , yeah Flick they think is a real frump do n't they ?
26	He just looked at me as if to say ‘ how did you know I was doing that ? ’
27	You say how do you know I was doing forty miles an hour ?
28	He does n't know I 'm doing this .
29	Like I say I 'm getting some erm
30	Out drinking with a couple of female journalists ( in what was supposedly Hemingway 's favourite bar in Havana , if you must know ) , I mentioned I was writing this article and we all launched into our favourite New Age stories , like the one about the Immortalists , a group who take to its logical end the New Age philosophy of positive thinking and creating your own reality , and have decided they are going to live forever .