Example sentences of "[indef pn] [coord] [be] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
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| 1 | is it fixed , is it sitting there doing nothing or is it moving ? |
| 2 | Did he really know nothing or was he trying to stop her questions by this extravagant praise of her least favourite weekly column ? |
| 3 | did you think you knew someone or is that the one that you saw ? |
| 4 | ‘ Rumour has it , ’ said the kadi , ‘ that the Parquet sought to arrest someone and were unsuccessful . ’ |
| 5 | Effectively , taking control of a lethal weapon and driving down St Mary 's Road in Oxford , which is an ordinary residential street and kill someone and be sentenced to three years : I do n't think the public will think it 's enough . |
| 6 | Quite late in his notebooks Dostoevsky puts the matter thus : Stavrogin ‘ confides in nobody and is a mystery all round ’ . |
| 7 | appraising somebody and being appraised |
| 8 | The mind though it be apprised of all the doctrines of the sects , knows nothing and is bewildered by the doctrine of love . |
| 9 | Even Masonic anti-feminism surfaces in The Magic Flute : the Queen of the Night is condemned for over-ambition ; while her daughter 's trials are far greater than Tamino 's — at least he understands why he is obliged to undergo them , while Pamina is told nothing and is expected to bear her tribulations patiently and obediently until redeemed by the love of a good man . |
| 10 | Grandmother Maidment was a good manager , a good cook who could make a meal out of nothing and was especially expert with currant duff , steamed suet pudding made in a cloth . |
| 11 | She said nothing and was surprised when Ana continued with no prompting at all . |
| 12 | My Lord yes , if I could there was a fifth officer that erm had authorised nothing and was n't . |
| 13 | It 's all or nothing and being strong enough to take the flak if things go wrong . |
| 14 | In the centre loomed a squat Tower of brown stone up which the shade steadily crept as the shadows on the ground reached out into nothing and were lost . |
| 15 | They could see absolutely nothing and were wasting time and fuel . |
| 16 | The concept behind the enormously successful Toni & Guy artistic team is soft , wearable styles that will suit everyone and are easily maintained . |
| 17 | Staff do n't know everyone and are too shy to challenge with : " Excuse me , are you members ? " |
| 18 | The FMLN motto is : " land is collective property , it belongs to everyone and is for everyone " ; and they are undertaking the first steps towards a genuine agrarian reform . |
| 19 | She was eminently suitable , well liked by everyone and was ready and waiting . |
| 20 | Tall , prematurely grey , and I suppose in his early forties , he had a cheerful word for everyone and was adored by the whole camp , men and women alike . |
| 21 | It was a very successful Rally , enjoyed by everyone and was a fitting climax to the U.C.M. year . |
| 22 | She knew everyone and was always in the know , always had some news . |
| 23 | This plan satisfied everyone and was effective on the day of validation . |
| 24 | The military ready-to-eat rations , which are the only sort of food dropped , are better than nothing but are inappropriate for sharing in the community . |
| 25 | Beliefs are not conjured up out of nothing but are rather a response to experience . |
| 26 | This novel seems , but only seems , but does seem insistently , to come from a man who knew nothing but was very opinionated , who checked no facts and guzzled rumour scraps , whose mind was uncouth , raggity , raucous , florid . |
| 27 | It looks to me as if the situation was that the Inquisition would have liked to do nothing but was forced to do so by the detailed and documented evidence claiming that Galileo was in fact a heretic . |
| 28 | There is nothing more galling , if you care passionately about something or are feeling angry or upset , to be told to ‘ Be reasonable . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ The long and short of it is , ’ he wrote to his mother , ‘ I must make something or be miserable . ’ |
| 30 | Was the speaker trying to tell me something or was I in the first stages of paranoia ? |