Example sentences of "be [verb] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He walked to Hause Point twice a day and apart from that … he wrote one or two letters and delighted her father by franking one of his ; he waited for him to get a full free day so that they could go char fishing ; he declined all invitations and although he was irreproachably welcoming when Mr Skelton and his daughter made a surprise detour on one of their visits up the valley from Lorton to call in at the Fish , Mary thought that she could tell that he was happier to see them depart than he had been to see them arrive . |
| 2 | You 've been to see him have n't you ? |
| 3 | " We 've made no headway towards finding out whether your suspicions of Mr. Andrew Stavanger 's letter are justified We do n't yet know where Mr. Stavanger is , and such evidence as we 've been able to discover so far is inconclusive , " I said . |
| 4 | If these intuitions are justified it follows that some exhaustive analyses of the concepts of excuse misconceive the social function and thereby distort the nature and operation of the criminal law . |
| 5 | Where changes to text take place ‘ before and after figures ’ are given which reflect the change in size of the entry in terms of the quantity of tags . |
| 6 | But whatever name they are given they make fascinating aquarium inhabitants . |
| 7 | Tribal communities — who have ownership rights over 97 per cent of the country 's land — are becoming more reluctant to sign agreements with the logging companies , the RIC says , while developments such as the " walkabout " sawmill are allowing them to operate their own small-scale logging operations in a more or less sustainable manner . |
| 8 | Remember that this is the only national fundraising that we are asked to do each year and that this year HQ are allowing us to keep 20% of the cash for our branch funds … so come along the other 75% , let's find those books of tickets and get the stubs ( and the £2 ) to , |
| 9 | Er not because of the number of deaths is going to vary sig very significantly as Mrs said , we we are allowing it to improve over time gradually . |
| 10 | But however often these theories have been mooted they have never been adhered to for long . |
| 11 | No political action may be undertaken if it makes a difference to the likelihood that a person will endorse one conception of the good or another , or to his chances of realizing his conception of the good , unless other actions are undertaken which cancel out such effects . |
| 12 | words that yo people are using I 've got now , so I do n't even think of it , it 's just there and I just talk normal that 's the idea really and if anybody asks you what you 're doing , then you tell them and it and you say , if you do n't wish to be on it , well |
| 13 | Many of its buildings are listed which places severe limits on any alterations . |
| 14 | Longmans , the well-known publishers are producing something called the spoken corpus which is er a a record of the way in which English is used . |
| 15 | But labour has consequences for consciousness in that rules for instrumental action are developed which enable the subject to have a measure of control over nature through the use of tools . |
| 16 | There is an evolving industry where indices are developed which measure deprivation more accurately and attempt to identify the ‘ best ’ one . |
| 17 | Er they had them all back like when the pits was nationalized , all these people who 'd been sacked you know got back on . |
| 18 | He said the thousands of get-well messages had been helping him recover from 17 days in a coma after a car crash . |
| 19 | you know what I mean , but the fact that I have been helping him has already conflicted and he has n't been in school a week , you know , and then eventually when they get those books out and he 'll say oh I know that one , that says Luke |
| 20 | I 've been helping him to find his feet a bit in Algiers . ’ |
| 21 | Bradford showed little of the enterprising approach that has been helping them shed a dour image this season , but it was not until the 64th minute that they began to slide out of the contest . |
| 22 | ‘ She said they 'd been helping her to write songs , and sure enough I tried one of them — low string down to D , and top string right down to C — and I got three new songs straight away : Galileo , Virginia Woolf and a ballad that did n't make it onto the record . |
| 23 | David 's been helping me set up the I 've , I 've just bought myself a three eight six . |
| 24 | Not only did she not help ; in the time when she could have been helping she did things like lining the kitchen cupboards with flowery paper , polishing the brass door knocker , ironing tea-towels and shampooing the TV room carpet . |
| 25 | However , the police ask how the Government are helping them to deal with those who persistently offend . |
| 26 | In my experience this is one of the quickest and most effective ways of drawing children into the drama ; you are helping them to make sense of what they 're doing , you 're showing them clearly that what they 're doing matters . |
| 27 | ‘ The Geophysical Observatory in Port Moresby have over the years provided us with very useful earthquake data and are helping us monitor the after shocks which are sill being felt in the Tari area . ’ |
| 28 | I am enjoying myself playing with the autopilot , either adjusting the trim with the ‘ coolie hat ’ on top of the cyclic or playing disconnect , move and reset as an alternative . |
| 29 | After we are registered we go into assembly and listen to one of the teachers or a guest speaking for ten minutes . |
| 30 | We have parents who seem to have lurched abruptly into grandparenthood , or who are nagging us to make them grandparents . |