Example sentences of "be [adv] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 I began to have doubts as to whether I had been right not to tell you what was going on .
2 She knew she 'd been right not to trust him , guessed she had lost his support and did the only thing possible — tore at the bread with her teeth , one bite , two … three — stuffing her mouth till the bread protruded and she could hardly chew .
3 She had been right not to trust him .
4 She had been right not to trust him , for he seduced with soft words , with heat and passion and false promises of safety .
5 For all that , had she been right just to abandon him pitilessly for the first dashing knight to Pass her way ?
6 Although dairy or dairy-cross calves are most commonly affected it should be recognised that autumn-born born single-suckled beef calves are just as susceptible when turned out to grass in early summer .
7 He 'd have been better off getting them to help him compose a Dear Marje letter .
8 But I am so fond of the people in A Wreath of Roses and have so lately re-read it , that I am perhaps tiresomely asking you to do the same thing again .
9 In order to try and get a resident 's permit for the car you are so generously letting me have temporary use of , I need a mass of bumf for the Regional Council in due course — they require sight of , and in original , car registration documents , MOT certificate , insurance certificate , driving licence , evidence of ownership or tenancy lease of this house ( ! ) plus evidence of payment of property tax !
10 ‘ Welcome , we are so please to see you . ’
11 When we are so closely associated it becomes a bit of a thing , the two of us together .
12 They are so widely prescribed you may have taken them yourself .
13 ‘ They are so well rewarded it 's hard to motivate them for international football .
14 They are so well paid they do n't have to go abroad to make a good living .
15 However , this size of fretwire should please more of the people more of the time , and you ca n't deny that the fret job is superb ; the ends are so well finished you can almost see your reflection in them .
16 In practice leases are so tightly drawn it will be very rare indeed that anyone is in full and strict compliance with their leases and hence the acquirer will be more concerned about material non-compliance , which may lead to forfeiture of a lease .
17 Although the user thinks that they are deleting the material they are only really removing them from the current display list — all the text and graphics are still being held in the file .
18 If he had n't been so badly injured we would n't have even attempted a rescue until later , but he was in a bad way , so we had no choice . ’
19 A significant number in the survey had been so badly penalised they had left to form their own practices .
20 it was really tasty , but I 've been So when do you go to see the nurse then ?
21 It 's been so hard keeping it all to myself . ’
22 The Eladeldi had been so quick arriving she had n't even seen what had happened to the Capellan float .
23 ‘ It means , Sir ‘ I am not away to stay away , I am not away to leave you , I am not away to stay away , I shall always come back to see you . ’
24 And I am not here to lose you readers . ’
25 ‘ I am not about to stop you .
26 ‘ I am not about to attack you , ’ he rasped .
27 I myself have been very careful not to tell you where they live , and I am not about to tell you now .
28 I am just about to tell you Q A P U quan quango , it 's a Q U A N G O semi public body with financial support from and senior appointments made by government .
29 Though the former England winger yesterday insisted he was content to remain with Leicester City , the club he joined from Darlington last summer , it is understood that moves are already underway to install him in the vacant Roker job .
30 They are not simply doing you a favour .
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