Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those Israelis whom this behaviour most appals have long been likening it to the earlier stages of Nazism , an analogy that found startling vindication with the recent disclosure that some units in the occupied territories draw on Nazi precedents for their own self-image , one calling itself the ‘ Mengele detachment ’ and another ‘ the Auschwitz company ’ . |
| 2 | I have obviously been taking you for granted . ’ |
| 3 | Then he saw a wonderfully pretty girl who had obviously been watching him for a long time . |
| 4 | When the Juntas were thwarted in their organization of a war effort by the spiky legalism of those local organs of the ancien régime which survived in unoccupied Spain , they could defend their authority only be deriving it from the elections of ‘ a free people who did not wish to perish ’ . |
| 5 | But if you had your name and year at the top you could actually put a simple statement along the bottom because you 'll only be issuing it for year nine |
| 6 | I would only be doing it for you ! ’ |
| 7 | Then within the team 's , in the Policy Team there were three Policy Development Officer 's , in the Neighbourhood Development Team there were two Development Officer 's and in the Community Development Team there are one , two , there are well there are normally six officer 's that you could I that you could identify , but there are other people that relate to them , but then it gets a bit complicated so were keep it at that . |
| 8 | So what we need to do obviously is keep them in the freezer . |
| 9 | The well-known argument is that the woman 's refusal to concede to sexual intercourse is totally unjustified , since the two bodies have in fact already been made one by a flea , who has been sucking blood from them both . |
| 10 | Clearly in looking at the travel agent sector we have already been analysing something of the domestic arm of the industry since these agents also arrange domestic holidays or parts of them . |
| 11 | And I think they 'd just been hounding him for a while and that was the last straw . |
| 12 | " Just been watching you on the box — you have n't changed at all . |
| 13 | ‘ You have just been telling me about the steamy heat of New York in summer — and now you 're moaning about the cold weather here in London ! ’ |
| 14 | He 's just been telling us about how this bloke 's condoms dropped out of his pocket . |
| 15 | Er so it 's mainly erm what I 've just been telling you about cleaning all |
| 16 | He 'd just been amusing himself with a new challenge , the new blonde female who 'd temporarily appeared in his life … |
| 17 | a hundred , you know that , you just sort of , you 've just been doing it on those out of your head , so we 've got two hundred times , now what do we finish off with , we finish off with once |
| 18 | We have been running an experiment in our laboratories , which erm , employs about eighteen hundred people , and I 've been paying a sum of money , so that they can have anybody with a problem in the laboratories , can have independent counselling , er , and it seems to me , I 've been lo reviewing it , measurement again , we 've just been running it for a year , and I 've been interested to see the types of problem they 've been taking outside . |
| 19 | What it implied was that BA has not exactly been covering itself with glory in its propaganda war with Virgin — and would do well to change tactics . |
| 20 | ‘ Six months ago , we never thought she would ever achieve her ambition but , fingers crossed , I 'll soon be taking her to the school gates and she can sit in class with the other youngsters , just like she always wanted . ’ |
| 21 | It suddenly seemed all rather a grand adventure , something I 'd one day soon be telling everyone about . |
| 22 | How- ever , the first instalment of the kingdom would soon be sent them by the ascended King himself . |
| 23 | I believe we 'll soon be seeing you in Brownie uniform , Peggy , after all ! ’ |
| 24 | If I were to question its authority , and find a nurse to look after me , I would no longer be doing anything on my own responsibility , and problems of valuation would in any case no longer concern me . |
| 25 | a series of instructions which would normally be issued one at a time on the keyboard to control a program . |
| 26 | Sweden and Costa Rica must already be bracing themselves for a high tide . |
| 27 | ‘ as if he only happens to be with us by accident and could just as easily be amusing himself at some other job elsewhere . ’ |
| 28 | The idea of getting everyone away is to isolate them from mundane worries so that they can concentrate wholeheartedly on the task in hand . |
| 29 | One of the troubles with wood has always been getting it in the right sizes and making sure that it is free from hidden defects . |
| 30 | Actually , as R. A. Fisher , one of the founding fathers of what is now called neo-Darwinism , has pointed out , this fact of particulate inheritance has always been staring us in the face , every time we think about sex . |