Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] [prep] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certain combinations of landscape elements that I tend to search for were in short supply . |
| 2 | All through the '70s I 'd wanted to be in a rock band and I ended up doing it and it was nothing like as exciting as I 'd imagined it from reading and listening to records . |
| 3 | I do want to be with Celtic next season , ’ said Collins . |
| 4 | Well , darling , I do want to be In Love . |
| 5 | Yeah er cover was the one that , after we 'd been through the document , I did find of be of particular interest |
| 6 | When Stephen was in hospital they kept us on the same house with all the mothers and babies , even though I had asked to be off it . |
| 7 | I 've got to be at the ‘ crem ’ circa four . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Look , I 'm going now ; I 've got to be at his place for three . ’ |
| 9 | You were just saying , you know , that we should just walk in the streets and things like , but I would just not walk out in the streets at night , I 've got to be in the car with the doors locked and , and I just would n't walk out in the streets at night , not because any thing has happened to me , but its just through what I 've heard , I 'm just terrified . |
| 10 | I 've got to be in London tonight , and I know a very nice old gentleman there who 'll let you live in his place and not even ask you for money ! ’ |
| 11 | A well anyway it 's got , I 've got cos it 's got ta be with me anyway on it , cos I 've got ta be in the conversation somewhere he said . |
| 12 | One of the most remarkable I have heard of is in the island of Timor , where there is a deposit , known as Bobonaro Scaly Clay , that extends for some 600 miles of outcrop , 60 miles wide and 1 miles thick . |
| 13 | Jesus says to you today , Rejoice … for I have come to be with you , now and for ever . |
| 14 | Jesus says to you today , Rejoice … for I have come to be with you , now and for ever . |
| 15 | ‘ Someone 's got to be at the centre . |
| 16 | I wanted to escape from being at home , from being at school and , quite consciously and openly , from being myself . |
| 17 | In two waves , one in late 1859 , the other in early 1860 , representatives of the various provincial committees which had come into being as a result of the Nazimov Rescript came to St Petersburg to discuss their ideas with the Editing Commissions . |
| 18 | The end of active hostilities between Chad and Libya in September 1987 ( see pp. 35876-79 ) , and the formal declaration of Oct. 3 , 1988 , that their war was at an end ( see p. 36256 ) , made it possible for the Habre regime to pursue what it described as a policy of " national reconciliation " with the many groups and factions which had come into being during the country 's protracted civil war . |
| 19 | South Korea 's " northward diplomacy " , which had come into being during late 1988 as part of its strategy for achieving a closer relationship with North Korea , was pursued assiduously during 1989 and with notable success towards the end of that year [ see also pp. 37041 ; 37089 ] . |
| 20 | The enthusiasm of official propaganda derived partly from the triumphalism inherent in a regime which had come into being by dint of a military victory , and partly from the need to conceal , or divert attention away from domestic problems . |
| 21 | In 1922 he left his Worcester parish to run the church of St Edmund King and Martyr in Lombard Street in the City of London , a non-parochial cure , which left him free for his major postwar work as ‘ messenger ’ of the Industrial Christian Fellowship , which had come into being in 1920 as a result of the amalgamation of the Christian Social Union and the Navvy Mission Society . |
| 22 | Although at first he had to consolidate his position at home , it was always his ambition to undermine the European order which had come into being after the defeat of his uncle . |
| 23 | Somebody 's got to be in charge … . |
| 24 | Well somebody 's got to be in this house ! |
| 25 | There are in London , for example , Cantonese , Ethiopian , Portuguese and Spanish congregations which have come into being through church planting by a strong congregation from one of the denominations . |
| 26 | Pieces which have proved to be of enduring worth have passed from special conference song books into collections with a wider circulation . |
| 27 | One of the most encouraging things she has found about being in Riyadh is that the Lord has been very close to her and gives her constant encouragement , when things are hard . |
| 28 | In her plain blue suit she came down from the Clubhouse with two of the owners who seemed to want to be near the horses at ground level . |
| 29 | When it had been screened you 'd got to be in there and the malted barley would come out of a big hole just big enough to get a comb-sack through ; and it used to run into a big heap ; and you 'd got to be inside there a-throwing on it back so it did n't bung up the hole . |
| 30 | The court has heard that she was arrested after police found out that one of the men she named appeared to be in Scotland at the time of the alleged incident . |