Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] be [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 You say how do you know I was doing forty miles an hour ?
2 You 'll remember we were offering five copies each of the latest Sega and Super Nintendo Tips Books to the first people to tell us the name of the hero in Rocket Knight Adventures .
3 ‘ I can remember it being done 15 years ago at Hodder & Stoughton . ’
4 We were all very friendly and nice and you made a big effort , Claudia darling , but I do n't think it was appreciated one bit .
5 And since Felicity — that 's my wife — ca n't now experience what 's happening five years ago — because it 's receding faster than the speed of light , and the speed of light is a constant which , as we know from Einsteinian physics , can not be exceeded …
6 So here 's a graph and we 'll say the distance let's see the distance is equal to erm a constant speed let's say he 's doing sixty miles an hour .
7 We 're talking about how much of the client 's premium , let's say he was paying thirty pounds a month , actually ends buying units in his fund .
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