Example sentences of "[vb infin] be [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the past it might 've been written off as artwank . |
| 2 | i i i in a sense it is a , it is a shift to the left because under the May the fourth directive erm rich peasants in particular would 've been left out of it altogether and there would still be some landlords who were , who would maintain their property but , but now he 's shifted to the left and this , this does represent a further attack on landlords cos , cos everybody comes down to the same level . |
| 3 | So Madam I 'm asking you to say that these circumstances , this is the sort of case that should never have come before the court , it should 've been sorted out between the parties themselves , with the aid of their solicitors , and that it 's only the overreaction of the police in this particular circumstance that brings him before the court here . |
| 4 | ‘ I see you 've been checking up on me . ’ |
| 5 | You know without the women 's support group especially and without other support you know , we would 've been starved back to work . |
| 6 | The money , £108,000 , would 've been paid out from a mortgage protection policy Stroud and Mr Stokle had taken out when they bought a bungalow together . |
| 7 | Now at this juncture here you would n't actually say what products you 're gon na do , cos you 're not gon na go back and say well I 'm thinking of er two hundred thousand pounds of convertible term assurance and we 're looking personal pension plan , but you 'll tell the guy you 're gon na go back to the branch , we 've got a variety of different things sir and what I wan na do is to go back to the branch and work on one or two ideas for you and then present them to you at some time in the future . |
| 8 | I said , well the important thing is Jan if you are like this you obviously did n't like , there 's no way I 'm going to meet her you 're obviously thinking it over I said so the first thing you 've got ta do is turn up on Monday and meet her cos erm , then well you 'll know . |
| 9 | The only thing you can do is carry on with your water changes and syphon off the algae at every opportunity . |
| 10 | What you must do is lash out with all your available natural weapons until the shock and pain of your attack forces them to let go . |
| 11 | But if it does n't hold , at the very end what they 'll do is break in on it ‘ and now the special report from Dan Rather in Baghdad , and then you see Dan Rather and when he 's done there 's a commercial and then it goes back to whatever they were doing on tape . |
| 12 | And what this section will do is stand back from the particularity of today ( though continuing to use it as an example ) and ask why economies develop such geographical variation and why their geographies are subject to change . |
| 13 | What we will now do is go down to S O one eight and we will discover the answer to this , or we will begin to discover the answer to this . |
| 14 | He continued : ‘ With criminal trespass , all they can do is go down on a daily basis and charge people . |
| 15 | What I might do is go back to Marks . |
| 16 | IF the BBC wants to secure its future the first thing it should do is cut down on the huge fees it pays to presenters . |
| 17 | The best thing managers can do is get out of their way . |
| 18 | The best thing you can do is keep out of his way until I get rid of him . |
| 19 | All I will do is to come in after breakfast every day and put my bucket on the harness room boiler to cook up , and an hour later I will take it away . |
| 20 | One of the most useful things we can do is to find out from people what they would really like to happen and try to facilitate this . |
| 21 | There were no books in the room so all I could do was look out of the window and wait for the quarterly chimes from the Cathedral Clock . |
| 22 | One good way of judging a well-planned interview schedule of the formal type is to ask ‘ Could this schedule be handed over to someone else for analysis without them having to go back to the interviewer to ask what certain answers mean ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Did she resent being passed over for the post ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I like to think I 'm a good loser , but I do n't like being cheated out of something that I ought to have won , ’ he said . |
| 25 | ‘ I like to think I 'm a good loser , but I do n't like being cheated out of something that I ought to have won , ’ he said . |
| 26 | Nigel did n't like being lumped in with prisoners and mad women in this way . |
| 27 | He did n't like being tied up to the women . |
| 28 | Zero , 25 , a self-proclaimed otaku , flunked out of the maths department at Tokyo 's Keio University because he did n't like being ordered around by teachers to whom he felt superior . |
| 29 | I disliked these two intensely and did n't like being told off for being rude to them , so I told her peevishly that I was n't staying while they were there and kicked off the slippers , put on my clogs and ran out banging the door behind me . |
| 30 | A , that I was upset , I do n't like being fined , but it 's also I do n't like being told off by anybody , you know , it 's a sort of basic child reaction . |