Example sentences of "be [verb] [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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1 | MILLWALL defender Colin Cooper showed why Nottingham Forest have been pursuing him with a fine display in their 2–1 win at DERBY . |
2 | During his time as Party chairman , many constituency officers had been to see him on a similar errand . |
3 | No problem Mr Prospect , I 'm glad you feel that way however I am seeing you in a fortnight 's time , have a chat with him between then and now and when I see you next week I 'll ta or whenever the time 'll be , I 'll take his telephone number from you then . |
4 | To be sure we are seeing it in a grotesquely parodied form , but what leads to Celia being nearly raped is nothing less than the prevailing structures of patriarchal and heterosexual authority : it is after all her hitherto paranoidly jealous husband who has literally dragged her to Volpone 's bed . |
5 | Beauty is in the eye of the beholder , in which case Kitchens Of Distinction are using it as a sharp stick . |
6 | FoE 's rainforests campaigner , Tony Juniper , admits that some tree planting is a good idea , but says that " politicians are using it as a green smokescreen to hide the failure of developed countries to cut emissions of carbon dioxide " . |
7 | ‘ The Bosnian Serbs are using humanitarian aid as a military weapon and the Bosnian government and Croatian groups are using it as a political weapon . ’ |
8 | The item may be faulty , or the wrong size/colour , or the customer may have been given it as a present . |
9 | Busily he scribbled in a scratchy copperplate hand that had been taught him by a schoolmistress from the hills of Brecon his thoughts and directives in the margins of the typed sheets . |
10 | As he glanced up at her , his eyes shuttered , she found herself asking another question that had been puzzling her for a while . |
11 | The majority have simply been using it as a solvent . |
12 | While Cleo and Dauntless tried to arrange themselves comfortably upon the sacking — which smelled malodorous in the extreme , as if the dogs had been using it as a toilet Apanage busied herself with the ghost-bagging equipment . |
13 | Well kids stay all the time but they 've been using it as a doss house , you know , |
14 | We 'd been using it for a while since we had to leave Riverside Studios , trying out a couple of new singers . |
15 | DJs are whipping them into a frenzy of anticipation from a stage perched above the masses . |
16 | Sometimes we are to treat it as a drawing of a box , sometimes as one of wire frames . |
17 | People who do n't have a real understanding of vibe are adopting it as a pose . ’ |
18 | I 'm not surprised your Julidochromis have n't bred and have fallen out if you are keeping them in a community tank ! |
19 | And I think they 'd just been hounding him for a while and that was the last straw . |
20 | A group of kids are on a roundabout , one foot on and one foot off , they are pushing it at a giddy speed , round and around until their faces form a single banded blur . |
21 | What about like contraception should be integral part of it , and abortion and the options open to you , but I think it 's very important that we are taught it , we 're taught it in a heterosexual basis , and that 's just not the case , and that just alienates people any more , really more from a very early age . |
22 | This is a similar sort of thing to passing current through , but this time we 're using it as a battery . |
23 | We 're keeping it as a monument to its origins during the war |
24 | No , oh , well no , we 're painting it as a female problem exclusively , but one that 's been |
25 | When they measure your speed , they 're measuring your velocity really , they 're measuring it in a particular direction , along that road . |
26 | ‘ You sound as if you 're interviewing me for a job . ’ |
27 | It sounds like they 're forcing it with a jemmy , but they 're not . |
28 | We 're moving you to a safe house in Wapping . |
29 | erm we decided from the start that erm the mums who have their kids in the creche should make some contribution towards the costs ; we 're providing them with a benefit erm but the company picks up the major part of the bill erm but in terms of the output from the additional sewing machinists that we 've got , it 's very , very cost-effective , yes . |
30 | ‘ You 're asking me for a snap judgement , Miss Levington ? ’ |