Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They rejoice that their pews are full , without facing the sobering fact that they are only filling them by emptying someone else 's . |
| 2 | Perhaps I 'm still punishing him by penning this recollection , or am I perhaps finally laying the ghost ? |
| 3 | ‘ You are here to assist me in upholding the law , sir . |
| 4 | The Senior Management team were evidently congratulating themselves on having recruited such an able young lady . |
| 5 | We just thought the T-shirts were funny , and we had them done because we were absolutely shitting ourselves about playing . ’ |
| 6 | We just thought the T-shirts were funny , and we had them done because we were absolutely shitting ourselves about playing . ’ |
| 7 | Life is constantly astonishing us by confronting us with new kinds of character , and thereby with different kinds of goodness . |
| 8 | ‘ If it 's just to stop her from clinging round your neck … ’ |
| 9 | Smith is still taking nothing for granted — he 's had the Danish champions watched five times . |
| 10 | ‘ What matters is that art — however you choose to define it — is still considered something worth bothering about . ’ |
| 11 | The problem is that , to speak of noise , to give it attributes , to claim things for it , is immediately to shackle it with meaning again , to make it part of culture . |
| 12 | Now she 's completely upstaged him by finding a Viking relic over 1,000 years old . |
| 13 | But do you know that it 's actually saved you from losing any of these employees . |
| 14 | Having granted permission to go ashore , I 've been promised trout for supper , although he 's never caught anything worth eating yet . |
| 15 | He just reads their mail without them knowing it and the thing that would really appeal to him is that the companies he sets his sights on are actually paying him for delivering it ! ’ |
| 16 | I was just congratulating myself on negotiating the first and second holes fairly well when disaster struck at the 142-yard par-three third . |
| 17 | Quietly sipping champagne in a corner of the large marquee , Laura was just chiding herself for having over-reacted in such a feeble , juvenile way towards a man who could n't possibly be interested in her , when she looked up — and suddenly found Ross standing in front of her ! |
| 18 | He was usually decrying her for displaying that vice . |
| 19 | Dane was either unaware of her stunned reaction , or else was simply taking it for granted , she thought irritably . |
| 20 | He thanks you for the toy soldiers you left behind for him but wishes The General was here to organise them in fighting order . |
| 21 | She seemed to accept Neil 's presents as her right and , what 's more , was increasingly taking it for granted they would be expensive . |
| 22 | Leith had almost finished her second course when , quite happy to let Travis talk away , she suddenly wondered , as he began to get repetitive , if she was indeed helping him by letting him talk so much on the same theme . |
| 23 | She was very sorry for her mistake and was therefore punishing herself by agreeing to marry him . |