Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , in a lilting yet hesitant voice that betrayed his unfamiliarity with English , he added , ‘ I am most honoured to meet you , Lady Fei . |
| 2 | So far there has been little discussion of the superego for the simple reason that there has been little cause to mention it . |
| 3 | And forms of treatment that address the mind rather than the body — including psychotherapy and hypnotherapy — have been successfully used to treat them . |
| 4 | The patient may find these activities both boring and frustrating , especially if you are constantly trying to make him concentrate on them as educational tasks . |
| 5 | There are two adjectives that are constantly used to describe him , both of which he despises : ‘ boyish ’ and ‘ energetic ’ . |
| 6 | Indeed the little incident could not have been better judged to give them , as a group , a history and a common recognition of similar social sympathy , of good manners under stress , even of kinship that they alone in the Swan , in Grasmere and perhaps for many miles around , should have shared in Miss D'Arcy 's private grief and dealt with it so skilfully and properly . |
| 7 | No one tells us how we are supposed to deal with death — our own or that of other people — and yet we are all going to face it at some time . |
| 8 | One of ACE 's claims is that members will be able to develop systems based upon the same building blocks which are sufficiently differentiated to enable them to go after separate market niches . |
| 9 | ‘ Every single drop of water going in to your house has been expensively treated to make it drinkable , so do you really want to spray it all over your car ? ’ said Kent Meters Marketing Director Terry Stoten . |
| 10 | Dear Comrade Surkov , You are warmly invited to do me the honour of attending my forthcoming Inauguration in Washington DC , on 20 January 1989 , as 41st President of the United States , and to read your famous poem of international accord , ‘ Friendship ’ . |
| 11 | I am not concerned to defend that world ; I am merely trying to understand it , and the rules by which it lived . |
| 12 | If his growing army of fans are only writing to say they like Merton 's own TV series , then they are either shy or lying . |
| 13 | Let us make sure that we do not direct our anger and frustration onto people who are only trying to help us . |
| 14 | ‘ We are only trying to help you . |
| 15 | From one of these , situated within half a mile of the proposed Chirbury Station , it is stated that 10,000 tons are annually raised for local requirements , and that easy and cheap means of transit , such has the railway would supply , are only required to bring it into extensive use . |
| 16 | Since we live on the crust , it is important to us in more ways than one , but we are only going to consider it in its relationship to events in the mantle , since these explain how Plate Tectonics works . |
| 17 | The Scotch Whisky Association and its member companies fund research and support educational measures aimed at those who are most at risk or who are best placed to influence them . |
| 18 | These are no longer needed and are best killed to prevent them from spreading to the food cupboard , so drop them into the methylated spirits jar . |
| 19 | We went to Washington to talk to the IRS and said , ‘ Look , honest donors want a reputable place to get appraisals and we think dealers are best qualified to provide it ’ . |
| 20 | As a preliminary we shall begin to examine the problem of how different kinds of discourse can be categorized , and the parameters which are best used to distinguish them . |
| 21 | I am not trying to punish you for what Steve did to Maria Luisa . |
| 22 | I hope that the hon. Member for Beaconsfield will serve on the Committee that will examine the Bill , although I am not trying to condemn him to that if he does not wish to be there , because I think that we might be able to find some common ground . |
| 23 | And I am not planning to seduce you . ’ |
| 24 | Taylor said : ‘ It is pointless asking that , because I am not going to do it . |
| 25 | I am not going to do it ever again . ’ |
| 26 | Like the purr , the key message of the smile is ‘ I am NOT going to do you any harm ’ . |
| 27 | Oh , I wish I had a two-pound coin for every toilet I 've burst into , hissing at myself : ‘ Stoppit will you for Godsake you 're forty years old will you stoppit STOPPIT GROW UP YOU BERK I am not crying I am NOT GOING to give them the satisfaction — waaaagh ! ! ’ |
| 28 | I am not going to give you a list of Reasons to Be Cheerful . |
| 29 | I am not going to give you a series of " how to do it " lessons . |
| 30 | Now what I want us to do is to look at these questions er because we 're being tape recorded , I am not going to give you time to work on a questions |