Example sentences of "be [pron] [verb] [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Am I to base my ethical values on the warmth and nature of my social relations ? |
| 2 | ‘ And how am I to explain my abrupt disappearance to my host ? she asked tersely . |
| 3 | I went rubbish cos he came and said to me the other day oh so how are you enjoying your first term |
| 4 | ‘ So , are you enjoying your wee hol in the Highlands ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Are you enjoying your new job ? ’ he asked as they waited for their order to be filled . |
| 6 | He means , normal are you getting your twenty ? |
| 7 | ‘ Why are you wasting your precious money paying me to look an absolute fool on your behalf , Roman ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Then why are you wasting my valuable time , mademoiselle ? |
| 9 | ‘ Are you contradicting my professional knowledge , you ignorant little reptile , ’ he yelled , ‘ I tell you its a bloody sturgeon . ’ |
| 10 | Why are you putting your small coat on mummy 's bed ? |
| 11 | Why are you putting your small coat on mummy 's bed ? |
| 12 | Erm , it 's , it 's fine , it 's , they were little slips , are you practising your left hand on it 's own ? |
| 13 | Are you doing your best at it ? |
| 14 | In the context of such a history , how are we to interpret our local sensation , the death of an obscure Englishman , who acted as house agent , courier , travel guide , purveyor of groceries in short supply , house-sitter and , it has been daringly suggested , pimp to the English army of occupation in Chiantishire ? |
| 15 | Well look when are we having our next tutorial ? |
| 16 | So if we alter the colour are we designing our own garment ? |
| 17 | How are we to understand their different feeding preferences ? |
| 18 | Longer term , well I do n't know it , it could be you want your bigger house , your detached house , it could be that you want erm , status within the company . |
| 19 | But were I marking his inaugural effort for its calm sobriety , I fear my assessment would be beta minus . |
| 20 | The to infinitive after and then , on the other hand , creates the impression of a delayed reaction ; it suggests that it took a moment 's reflection for the person to realize the import of what he had seen , this realization being what triggered his sudden cry . |
| 21 | cos it 's I mean my two I 've always been very |
| 22 | I do n't think there is a super parent i , all you can is your be , do your best , and that 's the best type of parent , is you do your best , your best ch ability . |
| 23 | The thing that 's nice about being a housewife is you have your own time — there 's nobody behind you with a punch card … |
| 24 | The kind of testimony which makes sense of and verifies ‘ backs ’ is one involving its related activities . |
| 25 | That 's it do your sweeping |
| 26 | that 's it do your sweeping up , is it raining ? |
| 27 | However , the other consequence of it is it promotes their reproductive success and you can erm you can see that it is indeed an effect of testosterone if you castrated live longer than uncastrated males , and the earlier they 're castrated , the longer they live . |
| 28 | thing is he wants his own independence |
| 29 | Perhaps that 's what made her ill , being sort of stuck between two generations . ’ |
| 30 | They 've got a different atomic weight , cos they 've got a different number of neutrons , but they got the same number of protons and they 've got the same pattern of electrons , and the pattern of those outer electrons is what decides its chemical properties . |