Example sentences of "be [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " 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 | Yes , it was real , it was happening : sitting with her back straight and her head up in the carriage on the way back , she thought how proud her father would have been to see her at the centre of all this pomp and splendour , and found herself mentally comparing his craggy looks and red beard with Joãs clean-shaven face and small , manicured hands . |
3 | Boz is the only one she 'd tell such a thing to , but she 's already told me Boz has n't been to see her since the attack . ’ |
4 | The only plausible way historically to guarantee the authority of such rights has been to see them as the issue of a divine law-giver . |
5 | Coleman knew them already — they had been to see him at the University of Alabama while planning the trip — and so it was natural enough that he should now take on the chore of shepherding them around the island during their stay . |
6 | During his time as Party chairman , many constituency officers had been to see him on a similar errand . |
7 | When they met , Burn said that Donaldson had been to see him in the interim . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | Try looking at people , objects and places as if you are seeing them for the first time without being influenced by what you have known about them in the past . |
10 | For me one of the greatest gifts is the ability to look at things as if you are seeing them for the first time . |
11 | Let me now assume that you are being considered by a prospective principal and are seeing him for the first time . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | Beauty is in the eye of the beholder , in which case Kitchens Of Distinction are using it as a sharp stick . |
14 | 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 " . |
15 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
16 | The United States department of defence is currently looking at using multi media to train reservists , and a few publishers are using it as an exciting new media for publishing encyclopaedias . |
17 | In the extracts from cases and other materials which follow , where the term ‘ sovereignty ’ is used , the judges or writers are using it in the sense of supremacy . |
18 | However , I am doing as the Daily Mirror suggested , and am contacting you in the hope that you can give me the answer . |
19 | ‘ Speaking crossly and rudely although Carrie had only been stewing indoors because she had been helping him in the shop ! |
20 | She explained that Lazaris came through to her via a medium who went into a trance , and had been helping her for the previous eight years . |
21 | Chris Patten , the Secretary of State for the Environment , later countered : ‘ If the Labour Party are accusing us of an electoral bribe , it shows that they find it rather difficult to criticise us on any other grounds . ’ |
22 | Except for it 's dead hot still if you 're not careful , if you 've been cooking it in the over or something |
23 | The item may be faulty , or the wrong size/colour , or the customer may have been given it as a present . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | As he glanced up at her , his eyes shuttered , she found herself asking another question that had been puzzling her for a while . |
26 | The majority have simply been using it as a solvent . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | Well kids stay all the time but they 've been using it as a doss house , you know , |
29 | We 'd been using it for a while since we had to leave Riverside Studios , trying out a couple of new singers . |
30 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |