Example sentences of "be [verb] [pron] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was one though on the Antique Road Show where there 's erm er girl brought in a kettle and they 've been using it just every day and it was pottery and it was actually to buy her her own house . |
| 2 | People are realising what particularly the Belfast group has been preaching for years , that early availability of resuscitation is tremendously important . |
| 3 | ’ I hear that George has been living it up a bit lately ? ’ |
| 4 | Well it 's low this is lower cost than what we 're doing currently , we 're giving away , we 're getting nothing only a cost of of twenty five quid on the seat . |
| 5 | If for instance erm Fred Bloggs at the end of the office is sick on Friday he turns off his P C at lunchtime and goes home and we do the software upgrade during the afternoon on Friday , then his P C wo n't get the upgrade to the software because we 're sending it down the network . |
| 6 | I said oh just when it got dark really I said we 're having it down the house , I said erm drank more port I said every time we went to the loo they filled up my glass |
| 7 | I do n't know whether it was relevant or not but I would , I 'd ask how did you manage to finance these policies , if you 're taking one out every two or three years , you know , obviously increment in salary or something of that nature might be relevant so something that the person was conscious of , they were using their money to buy er s er savings plans . |
| 8 | keep telling me they 're putting them up a lot in the budget . |
| 9 | It was on the twenty second , we 're putting it forward a week , |
| 10 | You 've just said that you took one look at Lotta and wanted her without knowing a thing about her , and now you 're telling me exactly the same thing . |
| 11 | His resolve had been to give himself up every evening to a period of deep meditation . |
| 12 | If you are asking me where the remedy lies , my answer is that I have told you before and I shall go on telling you , and you know perfectly well what it is , though everybody thinks that it is too difficult and that therefore there must be a different remedy . |
| 13 | The car is generally occupied by an idiot or two gazing strictly ahead either with expressions that lead you to think that they are convinced they are doing everyone else a favour , or that they are only sitting down because they have insufficient brain to walk and chew gum at the same time . |
| 14 | ‘ Not a lot to do in Vienna at present , and this Beethoven seems to be building himself quite a reputation . ’ |
| 15 | So you 'll just be wasting your so no one ever tries him out , but I 've tried |
| 16 | I 'm I 'm winding you up a little bit but no I mean there 's a little method in this . |
| 17 | I suspect Mrs feels she ought to be signing them not the |
| 18 | He waited to be instructed what else a Rifleman could do to be less like a fish out of water in a battalion of Grenadiers . |
| 19 | You know , this fund raising , it 's I mean we , we 'll be giving them over a thousand pound , well a thousand pound anyway |
| 20 | ‘ It 's only fair to tell you that we shall be asking everyone here a few questions about what they were doing yesterday afternoon . ’ |
| 21 | There are specialist pharmacies to be found which well the medicines , which are all known by their Latin names . |
| 22 | Said what 's wrong , he says Raymond I 'm taking him down the Grosvenor Road and there 's fucking old Paddy , we used to work with him , standing outside the f you know opposite The Royal ? |
| 23 | ‘ This morning I 'm taking you up the coast to my house overlooking the Sound , and if the weather stays as good as it is at the moment we 'll spend the afternoon on the beach at Hornbaek , which means we 'll go right past Kronberg — we can even stop off and take the tour if it appeals to you . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ No , they be taking him up the churchyard to see if ‘ e likes it . ’ |
| 25 | And that brings us to the end of another fun half hour — tomorrow Katie Wood will be showing us how the other half relax when she mixes with the toffs on a country house weekend near John O'Groats . |
| 26 | She suspected that the good doctor might be laying it on a little thick , but she would not be put off , and said in her stiffest voice , ‘ Yes , I understand all that , and I am prepared to work hard , ’ and she added for good measure , ‘ You need not worry about followers . |
| 27 | How aware are you that the powers that be could be steering you down a particular course ? |
| 28 | Surely the Conservative Government have already set out proposals for such a programme : they should be telling him where the money would come from . |
| 29 | ‘ And I suppose my first step on the path would be to tell you where the jade is ? ’ |
| 30 | Cos he 's been playing us up a bit you know |