Example sentences of "to be [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I just happened to be around some great players and be part of a great team ’ , he said with typical modesty . |
2 | But at least Old Vic is likely to be around next year , when Nashwan will be in residence at the Shadwell Stud of his owner , Hamdan Al Maktoum , vigorously trying to justify a syndication value of £18m . |
3 | For his gut was still queasy with occasional pain : Rab hoped not to be up all through the night . |
4 | The 100-index opened strongly and continued moving ahead steadily to be up 18.9 at 2871.7 . |
5 | ‘ But I like to be up front about these things . ’ |
6 | You have got to be up front and open , although that does n't always mean telling everyone everything . ’ |
7 | Japan Computer Corp is forecasting sales to be up this year by 35% , for total revenues of $23m . |
8 | So if it 's less than three centimetres from P it 's got to be up this end . |
9 | The 100 index , which at one stage had been 6.5 points down , recovered strongly to be up 11.1 at 2858.1 in very thin trading . |
10 | UK GDP in 1992 is expected to be up 1.25 per cent , while chemical production growth is likely to be 2 per cent according to the CIA panel . |
11 | It 'll have to be back dated after Christmas . |
12 | I do n't have to be down one night then |
13 | There are many who dislike the idea of a front-rower calling the shots because the role of their position demands their heads to be down more than up . |
14 | Although car crime appears to be down this week , PC Fishwick has urged motorists not to become complacent . |
15 | But the 90-strong band of pensioners are determined not to be down hearted and they have redoubled their fund raising efforts . |
16 | On the industry budget , regional selective assistance , which is led by demand on the part of applicants for assistance , is expected to be down next year , which is only to be expected in the present economic circumstances . |
17 | See during the war we had , we had a lot of er minesweepers down here and they were all in these trawlers , fishing trawlers that 's all they were and they used to go minesweeping off the coast , from here to Yarmouth and then , and Yarmouth and Lowestoft they had theirs , they used to like meet and cos they used to be out four days minesweeping and in four days . |
18 | What he did during the day she did not know but , he 'd told them , it was quite possible to be out four nights a week as a hired butler . |
19 | ‘ I do n't think any sentence would really be appropriate but I ca n't bear the thought that he is going to be out one day , and that day is going to be sooner than I thought . |
20 | I had to be out wide and then turn in |
21 | They were going to be out late and their help was away . |
22 | I want to be out front and winning . |
23 | If a wife is going to be out all day and her husband refuses to help in the home , she may have to consider arranging or paying for help if she can afford to — in order to do what she wants to do . |
24 | I was told I should lend that classroom to them I ca n't ge really get out first and that should be my turn to be out first today . |
25 | Unless I can manage to be off sick again . |