Example sentences of "that [pron] be [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every time he removed his glasses to wipe the rain off them he could see that everyone was taking advantage of his short-sightedness to stare at him and grin and point . |
| 2 | It is not that I am inferring information about him by analogy ; without the incipient mimicry I would not be perceiving him as a man , would be seeing him as an automaton only outwardly resembling myself . |
| 3 | It follows , on causalist and functionalist views , that I am understanding Chinese , which again seems absurd . |
| 4 | I am afraid to talk , afraid to open my mouth in case all the dammed-up love words that I am feeling flood out of it . |
| 5 | It 's only that I 'm sharing text books with the others |
| 6 | When they rise to an equal level , like for instance if I have a choice between going to a woman doctor and a man doctor and they 're both on the GP list , I will choose the woman , because the woman has had to fight tooth and nail , probably , and work much harder , to get at an equal level with the man , so I would suspect that I 'm getting value for and quality there by going for the woman . |
| 7 | No , I 'll tell them first , you know that I 'm taking part in a survey , you know ? |
| 8 | Not that I 'm putting money on any of them ! |
| 9 | There was such a deep gulf between the stern , dutiful world of my aunt 's upbringing and my schooldays , and the kind of lotus-land I seemed to have fallen into during the last year , that I had sometimes felt , when I bathed my baby or sat giggling in the park with Sophie , that I was taking part , not in real life , but in some wildly unrelated dream . |
| 10 | If she caught me now in the front hall she would waste a good ten minutes warning me that I was risking tuberculosis and a gastric ulcer by being too late to eat a proper meal quietly , and probably throw in the chances of my poisoning a patient with the wrong drug before the night was out through carelessness induced by my own lack of blood-sugar . |
| 11 | ‘ I can not forget that I was crowned head of the United Kingdom ’ , said the Queen in her Silver Jubilee speech in May 1977 . |
| 12 | For over twenty years I worked under the delusion that I was teaching maths . |
| 13 | In fact , although there was a cloud hanging over my future , I found to my surprise that I was enjoying life in the present more than I had before . |
| 14 | I now realise that I was really teaching social passivity and conformity , academic snobbery and the naturalness of good healthy competition , and that I was using maths as an instrument for achieving these things . |
| 15 | He had noticed that I was having difficulty reading my scripts during rehearsal . |
| 16 | Normally he would n't touch a job as small as the cottage , but I once did a favour for his father , and when I mentioned that I was having trouble finding someone to do the job he volunteered . ’ |
| 17 | I dreamt of making an Olympic team when I was in high school , a rather far-fetched dream for a 4:36 miler , but that dream was part of what got me through all those hard times during the years that I was losing race after race in college . |
| 18 | The fact that I had people to speak for me at the trial and that I was doing community work did n't appear to mean much to them . |
| 19 | But sometimes there was an uneasy undercurrent to disturb the tranquillity — including , of course , the feeling that I was marking time while great and stirring events were in the offing — war , for instance . |
| 20 | He looked suddenly suspicious that I was making fun of him , which I was n't , and grabbed me to look down the front of my dress . |
| 21 | In order to keep an erection long enough to fake orgasm , I had to imagine that I was making love to Karen . |
| 22 | Second point : although you obviously have such a low opinion of me that it does n't strain your credulity to believe that I was making love to two women at once , one of them married , I ca n't believe that even you could see me in the role of toy-boy . |
| 23 | One was that all people knew about me was that I was making trouble about the caravan site and a lot of them assumed that because it was at the bottom of my own garden , I must naturally be on ‘ their side ’ , whatever my political colour : that is , I wanted the site disbanded . |
| 24 | Alida Thorne took her tea cup and felt better now that someone was taking charge , running the immediate affairs of the house . |
| 25 | He knew that someone was using voodoo against him . |
| 26 | It was probably frightening , but right now she only felt weak and tired , grateful that somebody was taking charge . |
| 27 | I found out about it because we had a call onto into the radio station that somebody was pinching flower pots in this Long Eaton area . |
| 28 | For example , we have some little children down here that nobody is taking care of . |
| 29 | On Mrs Thatcher and Europe , he felt she had been ‘ locked in the bunker surrounded by sycophants so long that she 's lost touch with reality . |
| 30 | When she is older I will send the child to a good girls ’ school and see that she is taught English . |