Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] be [adv] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't know Ken was there until he heard a cackle coming from the back of the stalls . |
| 2 | They just want to know help is there if they need it . |
| 3 | His arm touched Martin 's occasionally as he brushed with short back and forth movements at the front of his mouth and then the toothbrush plunging to the back . |
| 4 | I suppose Silas is nearby and you 're unable to talk freely . |
| 5 | ‘ But the night before last , when we were in the garden , you knew Didi was here and it did n't seem to bother you overmuch . ’ |
| 6 | I ca n't believe it , you see I thought things were still as they were . |
| 7 | Eluard 's soaring ‘ lyricism ’ helped to perpetuate a tyranny , and is the kind of thing which led Kundera to employ the title The Lyric Age for the work which first came to him in the mid-Fifties , and which his publishers prevailed on him to retitle Life is elsewhere when it was completed in 1969 . |
| 8 | Now that she knew Betty was here because she pitied her and not because she liked her , she felt less threatened and decided that she would just let her take over the cooking and do as she wished in the kitchen . |
| 9 | She always did think Jeremy was all right-once you got to know him . |
| 10 | The reason for avoiding yeast is simply that you may be sensitive to it . |
| 11 | I wish Marie was here so we could talk about it . |
| 12 | Near to a school and a cemetery and with an older house ( with its orchard and coachhouse ) at the end of the road , this spacious house remained Edward 's home until he left Oxford . |
| 13 | ‘ You have my testimony , sir , and you have Eddie 's too that we — ’ |