Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] be [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Citizen 's Advice Bureau has got a pro forma which if a person goes in and says I think I ought to be getting , I think I , I do n't think I 'm getting sufficient income support or I 'm going to apply for income support . |
| 2 | Now if I were to suggest to you that in some gay bars the ‘ lads ’ pop off to the toilets that number of times to indulge themselves , then you might think I was repeating lurid propaganda put about by the puritan league . |
| 3 | ‘ Has someone been spreading malicious gossip ? ’ he asked innocently , and reached for her hand . |
| 4 | Needless to say she has to take life as quietly as possible for some time if she is to regain her health and everyone will be pleased to know she is making good progress along these lines . |
| 5 | ‘ I expect she 's looking round t'stock . ’ |
| 6 | How alarmed you must have been to discover she was receiving secret messages from some mysterious adviser , who also promised he would arrange her escape from Godstowe ! |
| 7 | Medics are keeping her under intensive care but say she is making satisfactory progress . |
| 8 | As you will know we 're given large sums of money by governments , the E E C and others , to work in countries in need , to tackle specific tasks . |
| 9 | The number of actual evictions was tiny — less than twenty per year — though when they occurred they were given widespread publicity and the fears that they raised went far beyond what their numerical significance might indicate . |
| 10 | Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania-based , Transarc Corp , American Management Systems Inc and Knowledge Systems Corp say they are co-developing object-oriented interfaces for Transarc 's transaction processing monitor , Encina . |
| 11 | Well I expect he was hurt poor lad . |
| 12 | There 's been nothing very dramatic since the secretive and highly confidential opening , when the teacher started with : " I 've been told about the wreck of a Roman Galley , which is buried in mud off the coast near Pompeii ; and it 's said that when it sank it was carrying great chests of treasure from Egypt . " |
| 13 | After trading what were to become stereotypical insults about bourgeois middle-class women and hard left male domination , a very large number of us walked out and from then on abandoned the formal conference altogether . |
| 14 | Please God let me be doing real work . |
| 15 | He says I 'm coming New Year 's Day , alright , he went down and he shut it , cos I went in the shop and I says er hang on I thought you was open New Year 's Day ? |
| 16 | Hope you 're getting ready Lou ! |
| 17 | ‘ I hope you were having nice dreams , ’ he said . |
| 18 | The clearer you are about your behavioural rights the better prepared you are to handle tricky situations assertively . |
| 19 | A lot of those promoting the policies really believed in them , believed they were doing positive work . |
| 20 | Mr Dobbs said : ‘ As far as I am aware the BBC want to do the sequel , and even as I speak they are discussing potential script writers . ’ |
| 21 | Now his father says he 's taking legal action against the hospital . |
| 22 | Nicholas Brown says he 's facing trumped-up charges , and claims that local police planted cannabis on him , expecting a bribe . |
| 23 | A divorced father says he 's facing financial ruin after his maintenance payments for his children were increased from five pence a year to almost three and a half thousand pounds a year . |
| 24 | FOOD giants Sainsbury 's says it is getting widespread support for its plans to build their first store in Gwynedd . |
| 25 | Xerox Corp 's XSoft document management software division says it is opening new sales and services centres in London , Zurich , Dusseldorf and Paris . |
| 26 | Xerox Corp 's XSoft document management software division says it is opening new sales and services centres in London , Zurich , Dusseldorf and Paris . |
| 27 | listen he 's playing happy birthday . |
| 28 | When last seen he was wearing blue jeans , a cream sweatshirt , blue padded jacket and black shoes . |
| 29 | ‘ Do you think you are buying cheap fish from a child in the market ? |
| 30 | Lest it be thought I am attributing vile motives to such people , it is noticeable that when non-card communions are held , attendance is considerably diminished . |