Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The flavour of these mushrooms is superb and , although they are expensive , they are worth treating yourself to for a special occasion . |
| 2 | WILLIAMS : Sir , the French Telemachus , for I am about perfecting myself in the French tongue . |
| 3 | I thought it was for more than we are after selling him for . |
| 4 | At present the beer is bottom-fermenting in the lager style but Bitburger are considering turning it into a top-fermenting beer . |
| 5 | His first memories of his parents , Sir Oswald Mosley and Diana Mitford , are of visiting them in Holloway Prison . |
| 6 | It was n't left there and I ca n't think what the chances are of finding it in a place this size . |
| 7 | ‘ I hardly think they 're worth bankrupting yourself for . ’ |
| 8 | She was so out of it that it would have been like making it with a corpse . |
| 9 | For some reason this ancient piece of folk-wisdom seems to have been largely forgotten , but it might be worth reviving it in cases where ordinary measures have failed . |
| 10 | bloody blue moon and you may not be worth putting on your and calling every six weeks Mandy , but , it might be worth asking it in a more open way . |
| 11 | Anyhow I see what Richard comes up with , but I , I think it might be worth saying what about the . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm through kissing you in public . |
| 13 | It must be like loving someone from afar only to have them turn to us one day , recognizing the love we have held for them and the secret things we have done for them , and returning our love with their own . |
| 14 | Foolishly she had imagined it would be like inviting herself into a trap , because the trapped feeling was still there . |
| 15 | If it had ever existed , the cosy Whitehall corridor was long gone , though Agnes sometimes wondered what it would be like to concern herself with frustrating only other countries ' spies . |
| 16 | Lying awake at night and listening to the moaning of the wind and the howling of the dogs , she tried to imagine what it could possibly be like to give herself to her cousin , a man nearly ten years older than herself . |
| 17 | It would be like finding yourself in the kitchen with Barbara Coleman when you would rather be with Oliver and James Cobalt searching for drugs . |
| 18 | She thought she knew what it would be like to find yourself in Boston when you ought to be in Chicago . |
| 19 | The Pritchards have n't given up yet , but they say putting them in a council house would be like putting them in prison . |
| 20 | OUR super EXCLUSIVE Wallchart features 14 of the terrible tearaways and the dramatic full-colour pictures give you just a hint of what it must be like to meet them in the ring . |
| 21 | It is , however , encouraging that statutory authorities are beginning to see how helpful advocacy schemes can be in alerting them to easily ignored issues and in raising awareness of users ' rights , particularly those focused on legal and civil liberties and welfare benefit entitlements . |
| 22 | The emphasis will be on putting everything into context , not only what a particular package achieves but how it does it , how it relates to the other packages in the same area and how it might be extended . |
| 23 | They were arguing about whose fingernails were longest , thinnest and sharpest and thought that the only way to see would be by testing them on each other 's bony arms . |
| 24 | Yes , I wanted to emphasise the way some men feel constrain before , not because I want to suggest it 's now becoming a problem for men and we should be worrying about them , but because you asked what prospects there were for doing something about it and I think if something 's to be done about it , and it 's a problem of everyone devising new standards of behaviour , it 's very important that quite large numbers of men should be prepared to play a part in trying to work out what these standards should be , and there is quite substantial interest in trying to do that , both at the level of the teaching staff at the university and at the level of the undergraduates . |
| 25 | You may wish to have a different choice of fish , but the set up should still be the same if you were to chose something like a couple of Siamese Tiger fish ( Datnoides microlepsis ) for the upper swimming layers ( see July 1992 issue of PFK ) . |
| 26 | She could trace where they were by pinpointing him on Hal 's map . |
| 27 | It 's worth trying it for eighteen miles , is n't it ? ’ |
| 28 | But they take it so , so strongly , they become so aggressive that it 's , it 's almost more trouble than it 's worth to mention it to people . |
| 29 | You might take this with you on shopping trips to see whether it 's worth buying lots of cut-price special offers . |
| 30 | ‘ I did n't say anything to Philippe because it was so inconclusive , ’ she finished , ‘ and I still ca n't decide whether it 's worth taking them to the police . ’ |