Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] be [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No doubt he 's putting me to the test to see how good I 'll be at sorting it out . |
| 2 | Helynsar ran well in the later stages of her race at the last meeting when Treat Me Good scored and she may be worth following against a moderate lot in the Moira Novices Chase . |
| 3 | Constanza is handling it lightly , but I know how shaken she must be by losing the ring . |
| 4 | It seemed possible that she might be into chucking men over her shoulder and spifflicating them . |
| 5 | It 's said they were so close she 'd be after coming over when he disappeared . |
| 6 | Well one of you on cleaning fruit , getting all the stalks and stones out of the fruit , we used to have a sieve , not a riddle , a sieve with round , the wires were round in the sieve and you rub it , and the stalks would drop through and then you 'd put them out onto an iron baking sheet and sort out all the stones that and little bits that were in the fruit and you 'd be on cleaning fruit you might be one day , the other whichever one was the you 'd be cleaning and greasing baking tins , ready for the baker to put the cakes in or what have you , and then at night we used to grease all the bread tins ready for men to be allowed to drop the dough into the bread tins , and er stuff like that and cleaning up scrubbing down and |
| 7 | She wo n't be as damaged by you dashing her dream as you could be by continuing with something that makes you ill . |
| 8 | And at the end of the day you would be into relating what people do in their job descriptions to whether you were getting value for money from those members of staff . |
| 9 | The more familiar you are with it , the more confident you will be about using it . |
| 10 | Whatever the products you sell , the more you know about them , and the more you show that knowledge to potential customers , the better you will be at making sales . |
| 11 | So , with the finance arranged , it is back to Aladdin 's cave … be as careful choosing your loan as you will be in choosing your aircraft . |
| 12 | Annoyed as we may be at having the cardinal terms left thus undefined ( for Pound proceeds no further towards defining them ) , we are compelled to see that this criticism is not of the chalk-or-cheese , sheep-and-goats variety ; the discrimination proposed is more subtle — between a quality in poetry that is ‘ nearly always ’ a virtue ( ’ I can think of no case where it is not' ) , and an opposite quality that is ‘ not always ’ a fault . |
| 13 | Unfazed by the fact that we may be off making a cuppa when his big moment hits the screens , Des has set his sights on playing James Bond in Goldblender , perhaps ? |
| 14 | erm we did n't have a holiday for that but we used , when it was Willenhall er our mums knew that we should be like going home and we used to go straight from work to the Wakes you see , which was a , it was really a good wake then but then you 'd got to walk home . |
| 15 | ‘ Our young ones do n't seem to think we should be in mourning for my mother because she was glad to go , ’ said Julia . |
| 16 | Once seen , it gives us back a legitimate access to a great wealth of traditional human experience on the matter , which must of course be critically used , but which certainly does not leave us utterly puzzled , as we might be in starting to observe a strange species . |
| 17 | ‘ We have not been as good as we could be in doing statistically valid trials ’ |
| 18 | The government er has been enacting legislation which will change the financing of the Health Service very substantially , er from the first of April , er we will be into negotiating contracts for health care , er we 're already producing business plans er for the work that we do . |
| 19 | ‘ And soon we will be within smelling distance of ale houses , my thirsty friend . ’ |
| 20 | The pros and cons of which financial saviour should be favoured — a bid led by the American company Sikorsky , or a European consortium including British Aerospace — need not concern us here , because to dwell unduly upon them would be like treating the assassination of an archduke in Sarajevo as the cause rather than the trigger for the First World War . |
| 21 | They may be worth considering if you live in a high-rise flat , or have infrequent refuse collection , but they do take up space . |
| 22 | If only one of those people is wondering what to do on a Friday night , thumbs through the listings , spots your band 's name , and thinks ‘ I 've heard of that band , they must be worth seeing ’ , that sticker , which cost you less than a penny , has been very cost effective . |
| 23 | And if you bring the children , they 'll be off enjoying fun and games with the other youngsters at the Pirates Club . |
| 24 | They 'll be off killing someone , have you not caught on yet ? |
| 25 | But although increases in pay have tailed off , Mr Page said : ‘ Professional firms are not as aggressive as they could be on cutting salaries . |
| 26 | Perhaps they could be down doing up somebody 's laces and that person whacks them across the top of their head . |
| 27 | The Worthing backs then showed how dangerous they could be by scoring two tries , but Alton were too far in front to be caught . |
| 28 | If I 'm not very much mistaken , they would be for packing up the Presley hoard in . ’ |
| 29 | If D set out to trick V into having sex , realising that she probably would not consent otherwise , are not his intention and his method sufficient to condemn him for rape , as they would be for obtaining property by deception ? |
| 30 | As early as June 1992 the Wickert Research Institute , from a poll of 4,219 voters , showed that 74 per cent felt that Germany could no longer afford European Union ; 81 per cent wanted a referendum on monetary union ; 82 per cent of these said that they would be against replacing the Deutschmark with the ECU . |