Example sentences of "be [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | You seemed to be drawing me like a magnet , and there was Claudine , anyway . ’ |
2 | Well I 'll be contacting them in the next fortnight er if and to make be able to pass on my card , I 'll leave you two cards so that they , they know to expect a phone call from myself . |
3 | ‘ He can operate as a defender , a sweeper or a midfielder , and I 'll be using him in the midfield role . |
4 | In many cases pupils at Key Stage 2 will use the same kinds of resources as were used at Key Stage 1 , though they will be using them in a more sophisticated way . |
5 | He said : ‘ They seemed to be using us as a last resort . |
6 | I use a small piece of putty over the nozzle for speed and short-term storage ; but if I 'm not going to be using it for a while , I take the top off and place a small piece of Clingfilm over the bottle , then screw the top back on again . |
7 | The first customers for the new service will be using it for a variety of applications . |
8 | You might be using it as an , as an insult . |
9 | Ministers are known to be bracing themselves for a series of defeats . |
10 | Sweden and Costa Rica must already be bracing themselves for a high tide . |
11 | Should business leaders be bracing themselves for a wave of intervention now that the Department of Trade & Industry is in the hands of Michael Heseltine ? |
12 | She was so aware of him that he seemed to be touching her from a long way off . |
13 | In all of this giving away of herself ( which can be taken in two modern senses ) , this revelation of a coarser character beneath the courtly exterior she tries to sustain , Margery follows the movement of the opening stanzas of the text down from the character of the courtly dame to the level of the townswoman , a stereotyped bourgeois Vxor , " Wife " : the label that seems to be given her by the letter " " V " alongside some of her speeches in the manuscript copy of Dame Sirith . |
14 | You have n't ans answered my question Mr Chairman , I asked you why did the Council vote to this museum on the Norfolk enquired by trust which to be given you by the Suffolk Authority Wild Life Trust |
15 | For liberty to be opposing it in the way that they are shows that they do n't remotely understand the best interests of our children or our schools . |
16 | Something tells me I wo n't be seeing her for a while either . |
17 | ‘ I shall be seeing them at the weekend . ’ |
18 | 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 . |
19 | Then he observed in a flat tone , ‘ What a tragedy , in that case , that you wo n't be seeing him for a while . ’ |
20 | I 'll be seeing him before the match . |
21 | We may now be seeing something of a revival of the reformative approach . |
22 | ‘ You 're not stupid , and neither are we , although you might be doubting it at the moment . |
23 | When the Juntas were thwarted in their organization of a war effort by the spiky legalism of those local organs of the ancien régime which survived in unoccupied Spain , they could defend their authority only be deriving it from the elections of ‘ a free people who did not wish to perish ’ . |
24 | Standard machines measure 600 mm ( 23⅝in ) deep by 595 mm ( 23⅜in ) wide , to fit between units and can be stacked one above the other , but , unless you have a separate utility room , that does not leave much space nearby for storing laundry supplies and accessories or setting down the just cleaned laundry . |
25 | The key seems to be shaping it to the particular client . |
26 | Now one of the things th we find that when we play an Adam Faith record , we tend to be singing it for the rest of the day you know , like What Do You Want |
27 | Whereas in Los Angeles I manipulated costly hot and cold water in appropriate vessels throughout the house , Bali is a network of streams and rivers which , like veins and arteries , must be distinguished one from the other for their various uses . |
28 | for not only was the Earl Patrick suspicious of anyone coming from the regency , but he happened at this juncture to be consoling himself with a local lady , in the absence of marital comforts . |
29 | These two things indepen , exist independently of one another , if they are to be checked one against the other , that is a major task which we better start attacking now if that is what required . |
30 | So I shall be enjoying myself at the wedding |