Example sentences of "[art] [noun] i [vb base] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having given this example of structuring I perhaps need to make clear some of the terminology I have been using before looking at more examples . |
| 2 | She was singing on stage when we arrived and by the time I had reached my seat I said to the man who was with me , this is the Salome I have been looking for . |
| 3 | That 's the excuse I 've been giving , and |
| 4 | Well , I 'll have to find a place to lay my cropped and weary head for the night , wo n't I. This is the bit I 've been trying not to think about . |
| 5 | the times I 've been done down in my life it 's been mainly by the white people ! |
| 6 | Look at the times I 've been refused for the forces . |
| 7 | Some indication of the immense editorial difficulties that arose , many of which I may say were not solved until the , the Pléiade edition in three volumes of nineteen fifty-four , some of the difficulty I think is hinted at , at any rate , in a recent description of the state of Proust 's papers at the moment of his death , and I quote : ‘ Huge packets of type- and manuscript , the pages festooned with half-illegible addenda , and blackened with savage deletions which had swallowed up entire paragraphs , heaped the ugly little bamboo table that stood near his death-bed , and overflowed from the shelves of the table along the top of the nearby chimneypiece . |
| 8 | ‘ The difficulty I have is proving it . ’ |
| 9 | Recently the coal measure type of cycle has been very plausibly explained in terms of climatically controlled ice-sheet surges , and we can very soon get lost in a multitude of explanations of the phenomena I have been discussing in this book . |
| 10 | Just just as a matter of interest , Graham , I was looking at the er , the rates yesterday , cos I 've been paying my mortgage over ten ye , over the last eleven years , and erm , bearing in mind the premiums I 've been paying before my endowments would have been er , er , you 'd expect to be more recent , because I was er , young |
| 11 | Davidson Davidson kind of claims this in semantics in natural languages which I suggested that you read , but Davidson puts the claim the other way round , that is there 's no more syntax than that structure needs in semantics and that 's just false , that 's just false because you 're not going to account for all the data I 've been talking about , about verb phrases . |
| 12 | However , over the months I have been looking I have become increasing frustrated over the issue of VAT . |
| 13 | Same goes for about half the words I 've been learning from that little minx . |
| 14 | The images I 've been doing over the past few years are like great sculptures , the weather has been getting to them and they are crumbling , their faces have cracks in them . |
| 15 | The images I 've been doing over the past few years are like great sculptures , the weather has been getting to them and they are crumbling , their faces have cracks in them . |
| 16 | Yes , either that , or it 's the work I 've been doing . |
| 17 | Although the survey was carried out in 1987 , and events in education have moved on with amazing rapidity since then , many of the conclusions that can be drawn from the interviews seem to have retained their relevance , particularly in the context of the issue I have been exploring in this chapter . |
| 18 | Well that 's the question I 've been asking in committees er because I 'm I brought this up when they did nicely when they took all the trees away from down er Long Row on the High Street . |
| 19 | And the question I 've been asking myself of this , is that erm , where did we start from . |
| 20 | yes , I was supposed to be going the morning well up until ten o'clock off , to go and see the assembly because er the lady I 've been replacing is back , so that means we have somebody spare around , but we 've got two people off this week |
| 21 | ‘ Yes , for the moment I 've been cut off . |
| 22 | Erm erm and then he was going spare and he says these are the worst I 've ever received in all the years I 've been teaching , right ? |
| 23 | Well but I mean , Brian was saying himself you know he ca n't remember at least he 's says he 's been working down London when he has n't been earning a hundred pound a day you know , it 's something , we just accepted it , he said over the years I 've been earning a hundred pound a day he says , and that was it you know yo yo just do . |
| 24 | My doubts have grown during the years I have been thinking about and then writing this book , but for the moment I will concede that for many scholars and teachers a clarion-call to defend ‘ literature as literature ’ would prove rousing and timely . |
| 25 | in all the years I have been keeping fish I have yet to suffer any form of disease or problems associated with feeding worms . |
| 26 | In all the years I have been practising , and among all the hypnotherapists whom I know or of whom I have read , I have never heard of any individual suffering any side-effects at all — except positive ones . |
| 27 | ‘ Look Aurora , this proves the point I 've been trying to make all along . |
| 28 | So I think we geologists should not be too bashful to theorise on the basis of purely geological evidence , and I can not avoid the conclusion that at least some of the enigmas I have been discussing may have an origin in the climate . |
| 29 | Since the meeting I have been pursuing the proposal for moving the Clerk Street bus stops and also examining the complaints about the Scotmid stops . |
| 30 | ‘ But it is not affecting me to have to do the job I have been given . |