Example sentences of "[pron] be [pron] [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as I was myself going to be killed , the village people managed to save me and take me up to the mountain , but I had lost too much blood and died anyway . |
| 2 | Which is it gon na be ? |
| 3 | As head of its armed forces , General Noriega rules a country which was itself brought into being by the United States . |
| 4 | yeah , one will always be there if you 've got , if , if you 've got a job , the other one is very iffy and yet they were lending money to people who right , right , rightly in their minds have , and as Maggie T said oh yes go on , go , yeah , independence and all that , erm they were going out , never having done it before , no tradition in , in maybe in their family of doing it before , got this goal this sort of Disney World ideal you know erm , sort of make believe world who are we gon na be and we 're gon na be dreaming the dream , the dream |
| 5 | ‘ Who are you meant to be protecting ? ’ |
| 6 | Who 's he reckoned to be ? |
| 7 | Who 's he gon na be tomorrow ? ’ |
| 8 | Well who 's it going to be then ? |
| 9 | About who 's it gon na be affecting . |
| 10 | This one was the grandfather of Robert Louis Stevenson , who was himself intended to be a lighthouse engineer like his grandfather , his father and his uncle , until circumstances made him an author instead . ) |
| 11 | Who was he meant to be ? |
| 12 | Then ask — " Who was I pretending to be ? " |
| 13 | We 've just conducted a very primary review , and we found that the interest and the demand for these seminars has been pretty constant since at least the early seventies , therefore we feel that we are we seem to be fulfilling a need of Third World governments and agencies . |
| 14 | Yes , I mean it 's really a question as far as you 're concerned of keeping abreast of what 's going on , I mean after all , it is I 'm just slightly worried personally that we 're everybody seems to be very optimistic , and I mean I 'm not in a position to judge one way or the other , but erm you know what it 's like , you know surely you can get too optimistic ? |
| 15 | Er that 's the sort of figure that we 're we need to be looking at . |
| 16 | There 's nobody appears to be against it , so it 'll c |
| 17 | Oh — ’ He now thrust out his hand in a flapping movement , saying , ‘ Do n't look like that , there 's nobody going to be murdered . ’ |
| 18 | If there 's something needing to be said , do n't shirk it . |
| 19 | There is nothing to do about being damned . |
| 20 | He leaned his forehead against the stone , and was suddenly so weary and so content that it seemed to him there was nothing left to be desired in life , and nothing more he need strive for . |
| 21 | That is obviously something which we 've just got to keep topping up but it was recognised by the fathers that will there was we needed to be helped to train to sell and so we needed that training er to get us get us going so to speak , there were no natural salesmen amongst departments . |
| 22 | There was what seemed to be an endless round of meetings to discuss our coverage , with Ford personnel up to and including European vice-presidents . |
| 23 | She wished it even more after she dropped the message in the dead letter box , for there was one waiting to be collected . |
| 24 | Well they 're we meant to be ? |
| 25 | Is it are you going to be checked ? |
| 26 | ‘ Naah , it 's all definitely worth doing , it 's nothing to do with being a fad or something specifically Californian , it just makes you feel better … ‘ |
| 27 | I 've always had a yen for married women — it 's something to do with being an only son , I suspect , some sort of Oedipal urge to play Daddy 's part with Mummy — and I knew by experience how much care and tact is needed . |
| 28 | Perhaps it 's something to do with being the only civil department still with the power to send in a gunboat . |
| 29 | But fundamentally what succeeds is what keeps people listening or watching and so forth , and I 'm suggesting that that 's something to do , it , it 's something to do with being interesting and relevant and catching the imagination of that particular audience group . |
| 30 | I i , it 's so it 's something to think about is n't it ? |