Example sentences of "[coord] be [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He drove through the backstreets , and the quieter residential boulevards , where people had either ignored the date and retired to sleep , or were celebrating it in the privacy of their homes . |
| 2 | If you are under 60 but your husband has reached 65 and is retired , he may be able to claim a dependency addition of £32.55 for you , provided he pays it to you or is maintaining you to an equivalent amount . |
| 3 | co-ordinates up , erm , you know , I have n't yet had contact from er no , I thought I 'd been given a new name , but , no I have n't had con any contact from my new co-ordinator yet , erm , but that was n't in my mind when I spoke on Thursday about Christmas , perhaps I ought to pursue that one in time for the next meeting and see what 's happening in South Africa and are getting it in South America for . |
| 4 | Let me now assume that you are being considered by a prospective principal and are seeing him for the first time . |
| 5 | Skerne Park residents who were delighted when the traffic-slowing plans were approved are now worried by the bus companies ' attitude and are accusing them of putting profit before public service . |
| 6 | In England , football hooligans have learned Orange songs , and are adapting them to their own purposes . |
| 7 | Send them to your boss 's secretary , stating in writing that you are starting on the preparation of the report , as instructed , and are basing it on the enclosed terms of reference . |
| 8 | Now Amsterdam seem to be willing to take him on despite the scandal , and are presenting him as an exciting and controversial figure , while many of his former colleagues in The Hague admire him , as do the public ; he is seen as decisive , inspiring and provocative . |
| 9 | So there is a shortage of hard information in some areas , er , it is a changing situation , and it is one where the Committee is under very clear instruction to extend the alternative care options that it gives to clients , and therefore that again is a complexity in terms of your ability to ensure you 've got adequate funding and are directing it in the right areas in , in order to meet , not only the needs of people out there , but the changing needs and what is , Mike has already referred to as being the preferred solutions erm , many of which have not been available to people in the past . |
| 10 | However , I am doing as the Daily Mirror suggested , and am contacting you in the hope that you can give me the answer . |
| 11 | Michael O'Neil knows what the score is now better than any of us here , and if I know Michael , he 'll be arguing with St Peter at the gate and be telling him in his best Superintendent manner that celestial security is not what it was - if they let people like him in ! ’ |
| 12 | Or he may know exactly what he 's doing — and be doing it for reasons his companions know nothing of , his meaning anything but benevolent . |
| 13 | In their view the Commission were giving Article 100A an unduly wide construction and were using it for proposals which should properly have been based on some alternative Article of the EEC Treaty , such as Article 100 or Article 235 , which required unanimity in the Council . |
| 14 | They felt that a good deal of the South Western Board 's troubles were brought on by excessive expenditure and inadequate tariffs , and Steward found little sympathy from the other Boards , since some of them had equally serious system extension , reinforcement and standardisation problems , and were financing them by adequate tariffs . |
| 15 | She now suspected that they had known long before and were breaking it to her gradually . |
| 16 | They had taken the area from the rebels and were defending it on the orders of General Kopyion . |
| 17 | At the front , though , they had taken them through the gate and were playing them on the windows of Hilda Machin 's sitting-room . |
| 18 | Julia knew that it could not be real because it brought with it even more horrible visions , in one of which Comfort and Anthony had her pinned to the ground and were hitting her with garden rakes with specially sharpened tines . |
| 19 | Up to 30 armed men had commandeered a bus and were driving it towards Zanderij airport near the Surinamese capital , Paramaribo , according to Mr Haakmat . |
| 20 | A couple of them had produced flaming torches from nowhere and were brandishing them with all the zeal of a party of drunken Transylvanian peasants storming Castle Frankenstein during an electrical storm . |
| 21 | She sounds an emotional mess , and is using you as a substitute for her lost love . |
| 22 | A vet has borrowed medical technology normally seen in maternity hospitals and is using it on farms to bring more certainty to lambing . |
| 23 | Farmer , Robert Wallace has re-stocked a private woodland with the animals and is raising them for their meat . |
| 24 | With no qualifications and precious little experience , she has taken on the job of Princess of Wales and is turning it into a significant career — and at the same time has brought up two small boys . |
| 25 | Now she has refined those skills with the help of judo and is putting them at the service of her country . |
| 26 | The benefit of this will be apparent when a force ten westerly has sent your brolly to Holland and is pummelling you in the face . |
| 27 | The Three Choirs vineyard is making an English equivalant of Beaujolais Nouveau , and is launching it on the French market . |
| 28 | Nour had taken me by the shoulders and was pushing me towards the pool . |
| 29 | Steve looked across at Ruth who had gone deathly pale and was watching him with her mouth gaping open . |
| 30 | Luke had stood up too now and was watching her with glittering eyes , either unaware of or unperturbed by the disarray of his own garments . |