Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] be [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That Rohmer fella might have the proper ID and he might corroborate your funny story , but do n't think I 'm falling for any of this crap . ’ |
| 2 | I said oh if I 'm in Beck and I 've got a free couple of hours I 'll come round but I do n't think I 'm going to this week . |
| 3 | ‘ Surely you did n't think I was referring in any way to you ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You do n't know who 's hiding in that snicket by the church — it could be the vicar or it could be Dracula , they look the same when it 's dark . |
| 5 | Absolutely su , there was a lapse with that guy , do n't know who was to blame about that third goal but I mean |
| 6 | The explanation will also include what is related to this and is absolutely fundamental to scientific method , which is the experimental procedure of testing and establishing connections by the " varying of circumstances " , which is essentially the discovery of what is relevant and what is irrelevant to a given event . |
| 7 | I do n't know what 's happening to this place . ’ |
| 8 | But erm , yes , so I still do n't know what 's happening with that yet , and I 'm waiting also for them to confirm a date for this first sort of Do Business in France seminar , that we 're going to help them with , which was originally going to be February , and is now going to be March . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't know what 's going on either , but I 'm sure the girls will tell us when they 're ready . |
| 10 | I do n't know of any boxing match that 's ever captured the interest of people and it was that night , course we never heard the result , not until we got to Egypt , you there was no wireless you see , you did n't know what was happening at all . |
| 11 | ‘ But I do feel I 'm viewed with more respect these days . |
| 12 | But I do n't expect you 're looking for those . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ No , she said not , and although I think that virtually everything she has told us about herself is a pack of lies I do n't think she 's lying about that . ’ |
| 14 | Did he think she was lying for some reason ? |
| 15 | ‘ And just where do you think you are going with these cases , mademoiselle ? ’ |
| 16 | If somebody 's saying to you do you want our guarantee — it 's fifty pounds , or it 's a hundred pounds — if you 're spending that sort of money you 'll probably pay out for it and you 'll think you 're covered for all sorts of things that might go wrong . |
| 17 | And he leapt out of the vehicle , What the bloody hell do you think you 're doing with this lot ? ! |
| 18 | ‘ What DID you think you were doing with that monstrous medieval machine ? ’ |
| 19 | You 'd see them being sucked into some kind of centre and disappearing … ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I can see them grimacing and thinking : ‘ I ca n't believe I 'm listening to this . |
| 21 | Shannon managed a smile , refusing to let the woman see she was affected in any way by her taunting . |
| 22 | You 're here , you 're on trial , you can see him being accused of all sorts of things , defend yourself , job your opportunity to clarify in front of us , we represent the people . |
| 23 | After all , when you have laboured in the engine room for several years and are then suddenly confronted by some of the highest honours the sport can confer it is understandable that a player might believe he is living in another world . |
| 24 | ‘ So why do you believe he was killed in that fashion ? ’ |
| 25 | If you look back at some of the studies described here you will see what is meant by this . |
| 26 | It is expected that students will understand what is meant in this context by the terms rank , cohesion , and context of situation , and that they will know something of those recent developments with which the term ‘ Systemic ’ is particularly associated . |
| 27 | It 's no good just saying you can report fraud er to er t t to the regulator , they should also be responsible to the shareholders , the stake holders , everybody involved er in er er er a company er and in fact er they are n't they have really responsibility to no one except the directors er who appoint them , the company share holders are given very little information , the choice of auditors er is firmly in the director 's director 's hands , the depositors , the consumers , the employees er have no say er in the appointment of er auditors and more important the recent legal cases for instance and the Al Saudi Bank er er and Berg er sons er and company also decided that er auditors do n't owe a duty of care er to individual shareholders , potential investors , the current or potential creditors er even though that information is supposed to be there to help markets understand what is happening to that committee and the government showed no indication that it wants to reverse these judgements , it should reverse them , there should be specific responsibilities attached to er auditors to give them a duty of care er so that we get the information er and er spend more widely and the share holders and the stake holders know what 's going on er er er as well as er the bank or the financial er institution er itself . |
| 28 | Mm yeah but I should think they 're insured for that . |
| 29 | I turned to Jamie and then the girl , cleared my throat and said quite clearly : ‘ I did n't know if you two ever shared or , indeed , still do share , for that matter , for all that I know , at least mutually between yourselves but at any rate not including me — the misconception I once perchanced to place upon the words contained upon yonder sign , but it is a fact that I thought the ‘ union ’ referred to in said nomenclature delineated an association of working people , and it did seem to me at the time to be quite a socialist thing for the town fathers to call a street ; it struck me that all was not yet lost as regards the prospects for a possible peace or at the very least a cease-fire in the class war if such acknowledgements of the worth of trade unions could find their way on to such a venerable and important thoroughfare 's sign , but I must admit I was disabused of this sadly over-optimistic notion when my father-God rest his sense of humour-informed me that it was the then recently confirmed union of the English and Scottish parliaments the local worthies-in common with hundreds of other town councils throughout what had until that point been an independent realm — were celebrating with such solemnity and permanence , doubtless with a view to the opportunities for profit which this early form of takeover bid offered . ’ |
| 30 | Hence consent to use a shop as an estate agency may well preclude its being changed to any other office use . |