Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adj] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It incorporates information about pre-literate society into the wider theoretical edifice which Engels and Marx had been building all their lives . |
| 2 | But the storyteller has been using all his art to lead us up the garden path . |
| 3 | Which was more than she could say for Uriah Colclough , a spare , already balding man in his mid-thirties who , having been torn all his life between a religious vocation and a natural Colclough desire to make money , lived like an industrialist but dressed like a vicar . |
| 4 | It 's not very nice when you 're driving the vehicle and er I know you 're all experienced drivers and then you get somebody sitting there alongside you starting to look at you do , and I I you could 've been driving all your life but you still feel a bit edgy and a bit tense . |
| 5 | Wilkinson admitted : ‘ I am keeping all my options open and I have been thinking about whether I should play Rocastle . |
| 6 | Until then , police are keeping all their options open . |
| 7 | If she had ever thought much about the future , I think she would have seen her mother sitting in a chair by the fire , knitting ; after all , her father had been dying all her life . |
| 8 | ‘ You are to receive all his wealth ? ’ |
| 9 | I 've been escaping all my life . |
| 10 | To hear Joan Marsdon talking of the PAT ( Pets as Therapy ) work she has done with her dogs Bewey , Chrissy and Beth , you would think she had been operating all her life . |
| 11 | In 1990 , the European Court held that a 60-year-old man employed by an insurance company had been unlawfully discriminated against because when he had been made redundant his company pension scheme was deferred whereas a female member of the scheme could have drawn her pension immediately . |
| 12 | I do n't know if you 've ever felt that , it kind of comes in totally f—ed up and there are people all around you guiding you and they 're bringing all my friends to me , y'know … ’ |
| 13 | You 're slinging all my cards . |
| 14 | Er might do it , oh that 's very kind of you , you 're dusting all my kitchen cupboards ? do the drawers as well |
| 15 | Yo , you 're challenging all your efforts into a different way . |
| 16 | Small time burglars with the social skills of a potted shrimp telling me how they 're saving all their readies to invest in a club one day — ‘ Maybe Puerto Banus , maybe Chesterfield , I 'm not sure yet . ’ |
| 17 | I would s I would say that they have come poorer because they 're getting all their things taken , they 're , they cos |
| 18 | it comes to a point sometimes , I mean I even noticed then like when they 're wearing all your clothes right ? |
| 19 | Providing the claim 's legitimate , and they 're doing all their bits from their side of the fence , keeping the the er , plan in operation , we ca n't decide we 've had enough . |
| 20 | and you wonder why you 're losing all your matches cos every time the ball comes to him he ca n't trap it or if he does he kicks it the wrong way |
| 21 | We 're putting all our resources into getting the first leg over . |
| 22 | And you 're changing all your currencies of a certain variable |
| 23 | Quite frankly , we 're advising all our clients to sit tight , at the moment , and neither to buy nor to sell . |
| 24 | you see it 's got no , they 're telling you this and telling you that , it 's them that 's doing this but they 're creating more food , food by , to create more food they 're bombarding all your food with chemicals you know all sorts you know |
| 25 | Which is why we 're offering all our readers a chance to subscribe to New Scientist . |
| 26 | No , he wrote , because Diana herself does not acknowledge either that she has been waiting all her life for him to appear . |
| 27 | She 'd been waiting all her life for this man , this moment . |
| 28 | It was as if she had been waiting all her life to find this man , this moment . |
| 29 | He had the enviable but potentially inconvenient gift of making each visitor feel that he was the person Montini had been waiting all his life to talk to . |
| 30 | Again , Monotype appear to have a lead in this area as they are coding all their fonts from a single digital master , regardless of the final output format . |