Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 've been slowly starving us to death , ’ they said . |
| 2 | He 's been secretly watching me for nearly two years . |
| 3 | I am slowly removing it with my tongue . ’ |
| 4 | Er I think that advertising has a lot to answer for , er we have this er , you know on cigarette 's there are so many notices and yet we get all this hype in television ads about cars , well cars are basically to get you from A to B and er there should be restrictions in advertising and try and get away from this macho image that the car has , its in , its a necessity of life its not something which alters your ego . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't have a lot of money when I come home and my parents , who are both on income support , are basically keeping me during holidays . ’ |
| 6 | Elsewhere it has been argued that ecosystems are ordered arrangements of matter in which energy inputs carry out work ( Stoddart , 1965 ) and that if the energy input is removed the structure will break down until the components are randomly arranged which with maximum entropy is the most probable state . |
| 7 | They are perhaps owe something to the tabloid newspapers and colour supplements , as these have emerged in the post-war years , with their high illustrative content and minimal text . |
| 8 | Conservatives are foolishly lulling themselves with their own rhetoric if they think that the reformed Labour Party is an image-makers ' fantasy . |
| 9 | They rejoice that their pews are full , without facing the sobering fact that they are only filling them by emptying someone else 's . |
| 10 | Do n't worry , no one is going to ever check up on you , you are only doing it for yourself . |
| 11 | But time is running out and I am suddenly discovering lots of subjects for my sketchpad . |
| 12 | Rulers who argue that a country has to be well-off before it can afford to be politically decent to its people are generally providing themselves with an excuse for continuing in their bad old ways . |
| 13 | His admirers are already comparing him with Chips Channon , Harold Nicolson , Richard Crossman , even Samuel Pepys . |
| 14 | The Open Software Foundation and Unix International as well as Sun Microsystems Inc are already using it as base technology . |
| 15 | The authorities are already threatening me with letters claiming the derelict houses are a public danger . ’ |
| 16 | To persuade their clients of the merits of the extension , the DLC salon is holding monthly wig parties , and punters are already swamping them with demands for afros and bouffant , bum-length Dolly Parton styles . |
| 17 | I think it 's really quite heartening to see so many aspects that the City Council are already taking notice of , and really are already putting it into their policies to view the environment as something precious , something we 've got to look after , but you 're warning us not to be too complacent are n't you ? |
| 18 | Mr James ‘ Jimmy ’ Nail , the thespian of unrestricted growth who gives working people his Spender , has been generously delivering himself of his Weltschmerz . |
| 19 | The owners of the 124 foot Silver Cloud are tonight towing her off the bank ready to tackle the famous Symonds Yatt Rapids on Friday . |
| 20 | ‘ Details are just reaching us of a major breakthrough in the Martian revolution , ’ Derek Carlisle announced . |
| 21 | We 're only doing it for and . |
| 22 | Well this is alright , but we 're only doing it for the beneficiaries int you ? |
| 23 | Well I mean you 're only doing it for him really are n't you , that 's the idea was to help him |
| 24 | and they 're only saying it for the sake of keeping going . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's odd kissing someone you do n't want to kiss but you 're just creating something as an actor for your audience , ’ she explains , admitting there are still times when she feels awkward . |
| 26 | Other negatives were Gareth Burnells 's ‘ No , mate , I do n't think there 's any particular dispute over this stretch of the Derwent , ’ and Neil Newton Taylor 's ‘ No , we 're just taking them for a walk' ’ on a picture postcard of Cauldron Snout . |
| 27 | Right you 're just explaining it to me ? |
| 28 | I 'd like to do that , but you 're just giving one to the Conservatives . |
| 29 | Oh them , no they 're , they 're just leave them in son . |
| 30 | I mean , I mean they are , they 're , they really are you know , we 're so complacent in this country , Mr Cameron , I , I do n't know , do you know , they 're just hitting us in every direction , my goodness me , you , you know , you 'll be afraid to breathe without they 'll want to target that . |