Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither had they been given extra hay the night before . |
| 2 | ‘ We have used our experience and our ability to sharpen up our image and our content and for six months now have been using full colour every week . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ One guy we spoke to said he had been walking this route every day for the last ten years . |
| 4 | The Scottish Sports Council and The Times Scottish Educational Supplement are launching this month the second year of the Sportslink Awards . |
| 5 | Today the owners of the horse were unavailable for comment but their solicitor said that while they accepted the horse broke loose they do not accept liability and are disputing any claim the horse caused the boys ' injuries . |
| 6 | ‘ We 've been refusing that man a cheque book for months but he just went inside and someone from senior management , who has n't been behind a counter for years , just hands one over without a thought . ’ |
| 7 | We would n't have had this problem if the board had n't got rid of Batts and Wilko could handle Cuntona and Rocky — poor management decisions are costing this club a chance of the title . |
| 8 | ‘ Miss Kenton , I believe you are according this matter an urgency it hardly merits . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I saw the woman I love wrap herself round my older , smarter and wittier brother like clingfilm round a sandwich , and it looks like they 're enjoying each other the way … |
| 10 | And they 're going hundred mile an hour ! |
| 11 | you see his expenditure was er , he , he , he , just to put it down to a very minor thing , you 're spending four pound a week |
| 12 | I goes c'mere to your auntie Verena you 're giving wee Evita a showing up . |
| 13 | And that would be calculated as the total amount dissolved in the ocean divided by its rate either of addition or removal so if we 're assuming steady state the two will be the same , whichever is easiest to ma measure and that would normally be expressed in years |
| 14 | No , but if she is , she 's , she 's been going that way a long time . |
| 15 | For she had been wearing this dress the night she had first glimpsed the truth about her sister , a truth that was as unpalatable now as it had been then . |
| 16 | SCHOOLCHILDREN in a pit village are experiencing first hand the Victorian values much loved by certain politicians . |
| 17 | Now , if you had two horses up the front , you see th their heads are facing this way the engines , th starboard er , two engines you see and they all put starboard up first you know . |
| 18 | ‘ I have been doing one acquisition a month and I expect we will still do one acquisition a month , ’ Sadler said . |
| 19 | We are giving this work a high priority — our intention is to put the new Framework in place by completing QDP , PDQ ! |
| 20 | But his assertion that a Scottish parliament should have some say over the siting on Trident nuclear missiles in Scotland brought an angry Mr Hughes to the rostrum : ‘ Let's not get dragged down the back alleys of stupid silly little constitutional issues which are doing this party no good whatsoever . ’ |
| 21 | I am giving poor Father the benefit of the doubt . |
| 22 | I am asking this man a question , you have some manners please . |
| 23 | In Owen v Grimsby Cleethorpes Transport [ 1992 ] PIQR Q27 the Court of Appeal stated that it is not always necessary for the pleadings in personal injury cases to be amended each time a fresh medical report leads to developments in the case . |
| 24 | 'E seems ter be runnin' round wiv a right rough crowd . |
| 25 | An additional administrative charge of £5 per person will be made each time a booking is changed . |
| 26 | The WP test must be made each time the adventurers re-enter this corridor . |
| 27 | He is the populariser and jack of all trades par excellence , intensely vulnerable to the scorn of the experts , and to people who would n't be seen dead reading the kind of book that is piled high in airport bookshops . |
| 28 | As discussed in this chapter , a number of challenges must be met any time a transformational change is attempted : |
| 29 | Everyone knows our strategy must be to sell one player every year or eighteen months , ’ says the chairman . |
| 30 | This requires the user to enter a unique name , together with a valid charge code so that LIFESPAN can determine where to store its copy of the package , and a filename which will be used each time the package is transferred to or from LIFESPAN . |