Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am listening to what the Lord God is saying ; he promises peace to us , his own people , if we do not go back to our foolish ways . |
| 2 | Response : I am listening to what the Lord God is saying ; he promises peace to us , his own people , if we do not go back to our foolish ways . |
| 3 | No , well I 'm I 'm saying to you the same sort of things , in general skills and abilities there are certain things that we required to put in the er numeracy the literacy er , to some degree attendance and punctuality , although we do n't have to do it on a subject specific basis erm we , everybody wants to know about he young , ho whether their youngsters are trying i.e. effort ha , whether they behave in lessons . |
| 4 | You imagine that if I were to catalogue for you the incidents of my life , and tell you all my memories , you would come to know me better . |
| 5 | I was looking at it the other day and I was thinking all the bits that are out now . |
| 6 | I was thinking of them the other night , well they er , five at least erm they were |
| 7 | You know I did , I was entranced by them the other day . |
| 8 | With a broad smile , he explained , ‘ When I was talking to him the other day , and I happened to mention that an old friend of my sister 's was coming to Ireland , and that I was going to show her round Dublin , and that we 'd agreed to meet here , and about how scatty … ’ |
| 9 | I was talking about it the other day and you go and it all comes , it hurts and , and it comes out and you ca n't even hold it down either cos it just comes in your mouth dribbles out the side . |
| 10 | A girl from another broken family ‘ used to sleep in the same bed as grandma — I was sleeping with her the night she was found dead the following morning . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I was devastated by what the letter said because I never , never used steroids . |
| 12 | But I was told about it the night before I was released ! |
| 13 | But as I was going into it the sun came out , challenging the smell from the night lavatory . |
| 14 | Perhaps I was going about it the wrong way . |
| 15 | As I was saying to you the other day , laddie , because I was aiming to be a fighting man I would n't get married . |
| 16 | The hon. Gentleman makes a fair point , which is not very different from the point that I was making about what the governor of Brixton prison knew several months before those IRA terrorists broke out . |
| 17 | If I was left to it the first pint would go about |
| 18 | The music panellist said : ‘ If there had been a full panel meeting and if we had known certain things which were kept from us the decision might have been different . |
| 19 | A NEW company has been set up to exploit an automatic bicycle transmission system , which is claimed to he the biggest breakthrough in bicycle gears since Derailleur invented his system in the 1920s ( New Scientist , 6 January , p 23 ) . |
| 20 | He 's forgotten to mention , by some slip of the memory , the one fact about the pits which is known to everyone the impurity of the air breathed by the pitmen ! |
| 21 | In either case , another chapter is added to a ‘ founding text ’ , a text which both authorizes its own dissemination , and gives everything which is recounted in it the imprimatur of a special truth : this is the word of a chosen people . |
| 22 | Erm we which is actually putting forward a budget which is responding to what the Policy Committee asks us to do . |
| 23 | ‘ We are afraid you are taking upon yourself the creation of a tool that has an even greater potential for evil than for good . |
| 24 | 1 You are preparing for us the scripts for the following items : |
| 25 | It could be said that some sort of crisis was going to force itself up in the life of a strongly emotional young man who was so strictly engaged in compartmentalizing his life : a father who was never meant to know about Janie Moore ; Minto herself cut off from college ; almost all his friends kept in darkness about his emotional history , and most of them at this period unaware of his religious interests ; pupils who were discussing with him the things he cared about most — books — but in a fashion which prevented his strength of feeling breaking through . |
| 26 | She was looking at him the way his other nanny looked at her budgie . |
| 27 | I mean she does n't does n't see a lot of her erm you know and but she and she was talking to her the other day because she does n't like to get involved or say a lot but |
| 28 | I fully understood what she was saying to you the day you visited Kinghorn , which is why I almost burst out laughing . ’ |
| 29 | The first of these reports was given on July 2 by Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov , who was heard in what the Independent of the following day described as an atmosphere of " chilly disdain " . |
| 30 | But it is n't easy we have a lot , what complaints we get bearing in mind what I said a short while ago , what complaints we get now are very much biased towards defects in street lighting systems provided currently here and there in Suffolk , so I 'm conscious of this , we are working with the Eastern Electricity Board on an improved maintenance contract whereby certain benefits , and one of them is immediacy of response to repair work will be I hope put forward , very conscious of it indeed so and er we are struggling with what the , the basic cause of it all of course is the , the , the quality of some of our street light and equipment here and there throughout Suffolk is old or very out of date and even run down indicator procedure , so we have got a large real programme as well as repairing ones already there . |