Example sentences of "be [verb] [pron] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had n't been to see him for nearly a week , but that had happened before when the red-headed lout was staying at the farm . |
| 2 | He had been seeing her for over a year now and yesterday she popped the big question . |
| 3 | Margaret had been seeing him for nearly a year and Maura had the feeling that they were going to get married . |
| 4 | Post-war criticism was ‘ gladiatorial ’ , as John Wain remarked years later , in 1972 , when the excitement had died down ; and attractive to the young for just that reason , since the young feed on moral drama : ‘ they need to feel that they are proving themselves by bravely attacking something powerful . ’ |
| 5 | You 're only , I think you 're only supposed to use them for a , a few months , I 've been using them for about three years . |
| 6 | And Ireland 's top traditional dancers are bracing themselves for even more misery at the end of this month when the 18-year-old whizz-kid is due to return for the World Championships in Dublin . |
| 7 | The Mid-Kent Water Company has imposed a hosepipe ban , while the Kent Division of Southern Water Services and the Folkestone and District Water Company are to impose one from tomorrow . |
| 8 | Since the approach was fairly new to all interviewed ( none had been operating it for more than nine months ) the responses may have more to do with expectations than experience , but nevertheless they serve to sketch out the potential of the care programme approach to affect every aspect of mental health care , for good or ill . |
| 9 | I mean , th that 's kind of you 're you 're seeing it from above as it were , why they should be forced out of the manifest if there 's some other reason ? |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't understand why they 're keeping us in here , ’ he grumbled . |
| 11 | and they 're pouring it in there say well |
| 12 | Well you see the trouble is when we 're buying it over there right |
| 13 | Eventually when all of the information is gathered in , we 're asking you to quite simply reject this . |
| 14 | When you put the and that 's the difference about drama at college is you 're doing it to please yourself and the , the group that you 're in with and ultimately I suppose your tutor but when you do something like a pantomime when you 're doing it to please the punters |
| 15 | And this year we 're doing it for about half price or something . |
| 16 | right , you be careful you 're letting yourself in here |
| 17 | Well you 're taking it across there . |
| 18 | Yes but this is where we 're taking them from and we 're putting them in here . |
| 19 | we 're banning him for further and I 'm gon na |
| 20 | Priced at £3.50 at the NEC show , we 're offering them for only £2.50 , inclusive of postage and packing . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm sorry you 're depriving yourself of so much pleasure . ’ |
| 22 | And er I feel I 've been wearing one for about twenty five years and I feel a lot better , I feel I feel as if I look good in a wig . |
| 23 | ‘ For myself , I can scarce believe it is true — that I am to accompany you on so grand a venture . ’ |
| 24 | Part of , part of the furniture , yes what do you want , there 's no problem with parcels , and so again it becomes far less difficult to discuss erm , a business conversation , and sometimes it 's a conversation about football , and they 're all a load of complete , because that 's part of , er , that 's one of the joys of er , er , having been doing something for long enough to have got known within the , within the patch . |
| 25 | I mean , we could have been doing anything in there . ’ |
| 26 | He 's been doing it for quite a while now has n't he ? |
| 27 | ‘ She has been doing it for about three years . |
| 28 | But you you 've got the drift and as long as I I persuade people to listen to the people who 've been doing it for so long |
| 29 | You look at Lauren Hutton , who 's been doing it for more than 20 years . |
| 30 | ‘ You are burying yourself in too many thoughts . ’ |