Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are sorry to lose her . |
| 2 | Further , no married woman could make a will without her husband 's consent , nor ( with trifling exceptions ) make any contract , except as agent either for her husband or for some other person : it would have been absurd to let her contract when she had no free property out of which she could pay . |
| 3 | ‘ My dear Nevton , ’ he wrote , ‘ you are right to chide me . |
| 4 | ‘ I know , ’ said Gildas , ‘ you are right to remind me of it . |
| 5 | You are right to remind us . |
| 6 | He said now , ‘ You are right to check me . |
| 7 | wonderful do n't like those , do n't really wan na give you those there are right have I got it on bloody hell mum ! |
| 8 | ‘ I suppose we are right to send you and Jeremy out to get Tristram rather than leave him to take the full consequences ? ’ he said reflectively , as he loaded her and her possessions into his car and took the wheel . |
| 9 | It had been pleasant to see her flitting about Moorlake , absorbed in her enterprise . |
| 10 | Kim pulled T'ai Cho down , then scrambled back , feeling the convected warmth of the gun 's discharge in the air , accompanied by a sharp , sweet scent that might almost have been pleasant had it not signalled something so deadly . |
| 11 | ‘ This is all I shall have to remember him by — you are cruel to treat it with such levity . ’ |
| 12 | Although Blake may have given the impression to the prison authorities that he had accepted his sentence and settled down to serve it ( it would surely have been odd had he done otherwise ) , in reality neither he nor the KGB had any intention of him remaining in prison a day longer than necessary . |
| 13 | Well do do n't look as if they 've been used does it ? |
| 14 | Tell yourself , ‘ The very fact that I am alive gives me the right to a new beginning . ’ |
| 15 | Generations of the same familyes have worked at Cowley , in recent years the numbers employed have declined , two of the works are due to close he says , The opening of Act 2 is a song which dela swith the lethargy that is seeping in and coming to terms with being out of work . |
| 16 | This month , events are due to prove you right . |
| 17 | They probably seemed as ridiculous to the boy as they 'd seemed boring to Nevil , who had been right to say they had harmed him with their indulgence and from whom they would willingly now have asked forgiveness . |
| 18 | She had been right to say it was people like that who do terrible things , and if Timothy Gedge did do terrible things it would not be because he was different and exotic but because he was possessed of an urge to become so . |
| 19 | The astrologer had been right to warn her off , had been right that his heart was tied up elsewhere . |
| 20 | He 'd blame it all on the beer and the sherry , he 'd say with a laugh she 'd been right to tell him not to take any . |
| 21 | It was wider than it had looked and Fenella thought she had been right to think it led away from the road , deeper into the hillside . |
| 22 | He had had a few hopes for Sally-Anne Tunstall himself , had been sorry to see her go . |
| 23 | I 'm not sure Hawick was right for her and I 'd have been sorry to lose her , but that 's beside the point . |
| 24 | The other English Duke in Brussels , Wellington , would have been grateful had he known that Richmond had spared him the Duchess 's worries , for the Commander-in-Chief of the British and Dutch armies already had more than enough worries of his own . |
| 25 | Joe , a friend from school , had been due to meet him there , half an hour earlier . |
| 26 | Although the 20 cm square shaft has been known about since 1882 it is only with developments in recent technology that it has been possible to explore it by means of a video camera mounted onto a mini robot . |
| 27 | Having been placed on to three lengths of webbing , six men would be required to lift the shell and put it into the case ; the webs were then cut , as it would not have been possible to withdraw them . |
| 28 | We 've got certain rules that say all children must sit certain exams at certain times , it has n't been possible to do it in the labs |
| 29 | The wall opposite the sink and the window was covered with an oak dresser , very old and probably valuable , if it had been possible to remove it from the wall without its collapse , and the original row of bells still hung over the door each with its Gothic script ; drawing room , dining room , study , nursery . |
| 30 | It has not been possible to exempt her from a third politics module , 7605 , but rather than delay her Stage II entry it has been agreed that she may ‘ trail ’ it in that stage , i.e. she will include it along with her advanced modules as 1 of the 2 basic modules which may also be counted . |