Example sentences of "[vb base] be [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You need to put a lot of energy into your work and career at the beginning of June , Virgo , when all you really want is to create a secure home environment for yourself ! |
| 2 | ‘ But right now , all I want is to lead a normal life . ’ |
| 3 | Mrs Gojkovic said later : ‘ What I now want is to get a middle-of-the-range hotel to cater for the tourist trade in London … this is going to enable me to do this . ’ |
| 4 | And backs away , with what I believe is called a shiteating grin . |
| 5 | Even those they later reject are found a loving home with a member of the Force . |
| 6 | The road that they have created I think is having a damaging effect on the team and is making it more difficult for us to get the results . |
| 7 | Again , yo you , the figure staying the same , all you do is to move a decimal point two places . |
| 8 | What they do is to introduce a new element into the concept of responsibility which involves more than free will and reason ; now a third party is present and is an active participant in the language game in which responsibility has a role . |
| 9 | I head south after what I think 's called a hearty breakfast and an even heartier cough . |
| 10 | Even those that survive are given a severe check and often produce poor growth . |
| 11 | As a project engineer , I 've been using a similar document for about the last six months . |
| 12 | ‘ They 've been gone a good while . ’ |
| 13 | I 've been dating a wonderful chick for two years now but she 's just too frigid , sex is out of the question so one night I masturbated and pulled too hard on the sensitive part of my penis , now the tissues around the foreskin are swollen and septic but I 'm too distressed and embarrassed to see a doctor and my f girlfriend wants nothing to do with me , I find it hard to urinate what can I do ? |
| 14 | Well I I 've been sent a local |
| 15 | Besides being allowed to play mistress of this house for years , you 've been given a good allowance . |
| 16 | When you 've been given a fine brain like I have , you 've got to use it . |
| 17 | Kernaghan , who has actually won schoolboy caps for Northern Ireland added : ‘ I 've been given a big chance now to book my ticket for the World Cup finals in America and I 'll do everything I can to take it . ’ |
| 18 | And because they 've been given a tantalising series of glimpses of a fuller life , they 're aware and starving . |
| 19 | Now they 've been given a derelict school building , gutted by fire , for their new community association . |
| 20 | We 've been getting a wee bit of light in now in the mornings , eh ? |
| 21 | ‘ You 've been making a bloody exception in my case ever since I 've been on the corporate payroll ’ he yelled . |
| 22 | But I often find myself being far less nervous than the artists I 'm supporting , because I 'm so used to gigging ; I 've been doing a steady diet of around four gigs a week to support myself for many years , whereas they make an album then go out on tour every two years . ’ |
| 23 | I 've been designing a new collection . ’ |
| 24 | I 've been employing a similar battle plan in slightly different circumstances and I 've scored at least one tactical victory . |
| 25 | I 've been feeling a wee bit sick . |
| 26 | I 've been feeling a wee bit |
| 27 | ‘ I 've been driving a great deal in the States but it was either a Packard or a Studebaker . ’ |
| 28 | I mean , if I 'd thought there was something really wrong , I 'd have seen that you stayed at home — this makes me feel I 've been driving a sick horse or something " |
| 29 | ‘ I 've been running three or four miles every day for a week , and using a trampoline at home to build up my fitness , and I 've been keeping a close eye on what I eat . |
| 30 | I 've been paying a full stamp since nineteen seventy four . |