Example sentences of "be [verb] [pers pn] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 stories because they are encouraging it does make us feel that even though we are a small denomination that does not stop us from preventing new ideas which we can share and in which we can learn from each other .
2 Just cos I 'm leaving I 've got ta .
3 You were saying you do emphasize when you 're trying to get people to understand .
4 I kept my fingers crossed figuratively during the first few months of our acquaintance that neither of us would be sent elsewhere on a permanent posting — permanent until demob , that is — because I had seen quite a few promising romances nipped in the bud by one or the other partner being whipped away by the unfeeling powers-that-be , and when a relationship is developing you do need a few weeks of togetherness to allow it to mature .
5 He won the car in a competition when he was 12 , and is selling it to help pay for his further education .
6 I know she 's doing it to help forget about Masklin but no good will come of it , you mark my words .
7 And they say yeah I will but but presumably that tapers off and they do n't but it 's an interesting thing that on particular when you 're targeting certain things like pantomime do get people in I think there 's lot 's of people said this evening say actually build on that perhaps get those people to come back again so yes I did like it I I did like what I saw there I did like the way that I was treated I did like the whole ambience of the place like I 'll definitely come back again will they be viable to do that ?
8 ‘ Although , when I was going he did give me a sort of squeeze and said I 'd got the loveliest mouth he 'd ever seen . ’
9 When that foal was born we did put he head collar on it , you see .
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