Example sentences of "be [verb] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I had been to see him the previous day , and arranged that he come and teach me Dutch . |
| 2 | I happen to have half a dozen , and there is one , just one , that I am allowing you the privilege of riding , because I think you are capable of coping with it . |
| 3 | Ah yes , well you see , you see , in effect if you called her an old , that could 've been , that , that , that , that , that , that , that could 've been eh , that could 've been eh , that could 've been , you know , you could 've been given her a , that could 've of been a praise , you old cow . |
| 4 | Medusa raised her arms : ‘ We are , ’ she said , spelling out the words slowly : ‘ We are bringing you the real magic , this time . ’ |
| 5 | By calling God infinite , we are denying Him a characteristic of objects in the world . |
| 6 | Having set the Duchy on the road to providing an income for the Prince of Wales , the next task had been to find him a house and , of all those short-listed in the summer of 1980 , Charles chose Highgrove . |
| 7 | In India too people are convinced that the Western nations are seeing test-tube fusion and are keeping it a secret because they have realised that not only does test-tube fusion have great commercial potential , but could revolutionise military strategy . |
| 8 | I am writing you a joint letter this time , as I forget who I sent my last card to . |
| 9 | My long-suffering owl chauffeur said to me one day while he was yet again driving me to some venue I was going to give a talk at , ‘ You and that bird are costing me a bloody fortune ! ’ |
| 10 | OK , so perhaps she 'd been pushing it a little ! |
| 11 | ‘ I am causing you a deal of trouble one way and another . ’ |
| 12 | No I am grateful to Mr because he 's finally crystallised in my mind something that 's been bugging me the longer I stay on this council about exactly what the Tories see their role here as and it 's now very clear to me , more than ever and that is that if you want to be obstructive and negative and if you go on long enough being obstructive and negative what you can end up doing is that you 'll find yourself eventually in a position going on long enough that you can make totally meaningless speeches but at least you 'll get nice headlines in the paper and that seems to me the whole essence of the Tory strategy . |
| 13 | ‘ You are serving us the fermented grapes from Noah 's vines ? ’ |
| 14 | Well plus plus the fact that erm it 's not that you have n't got one , or it 's not that we 'd need you to drive it 's that you 're denying us the privilege of being able to send you . |
| 15 | Check it somewhere that you 're writing it the right way |
| 16 | He says yes if you 're paying me a week 's wages and I says I ca n't do that . |
| 17 | They 're getting me a hose for Christmas . |
| 18 | You know you 're getting me a name for myself and there might be somebody listening you never know . |
| 19 | The great thing about the game is that you 're teaching them a little bit of culture |
| 20 | Now , they 're calling him the heir to Britain 's tennis crown . |
| 21 | Incidentally — ’ he patted me on the knee' — we 're calling it the Infenestration of Leytonstone back at the Shop . |
| 22 | We 're hoping and I 'm crossing my fingers here , that we 'll get in excess of five thousand people there and the interesting thing is we 've got a commercial exhibition at it , to give it a flavour of Scotland where people will show all the good things made in Scotland and we 're calling it the taste and touch of Scotland and hopefully that will offset the cost of all the other , other er stalls and things that we 're holding . |
| 23 | They 're calling it the curse of the L-plate . |
| 24 | By the way , while I think of it , Anne was just about to leave the country when you rang , but she says when she gets back in September you 're to give her a call . ’ |
| 25 | She phoned her careers office today , they 're sending her the information free , you 're thinking . |
| 26 | And then we we 're sending them the net list and saying there 's your new le er price |
| 27 | Still , as you have managed to describe the bodily state of 90 per cent of the Punch staff we 're sending you the Jim Beam |
| 28 | The could be if you pop yourself there , he sits there and she sits there , you 're asking him a question , he 's not sure , he looks at her , so if you look you ca n't see what you 're doing , you want to be able to maintain eye contact with them both , yeah , one of the effective ways , well they 're going to be aware of the layout of the living room , this is their , this is their stage . |
| 29 | Oh well now you 're asking me a tricky one . |
| 30 | You 're asking me a question ? |