Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] be [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drawn this little character and what I intend to do is put this into acid and etch it . |
| 2 | The last thing we want to do is broadcast this information . ’ |
| 3 | The " Big Book " of alcoholics Anonymous describes some unfortunate people as being " naturally incapable of grasping and developing a manner of living which demands rigorous honesty " and says that " they are not at fault ; they seem to have been born that way " . |
| 4 | One moment Angel One had been crouched motionless as a carved statue , the next he seemed to have been transposed several feet nearer in the blink of an eye , like a faulty sequence in some badly cut movie . |
| 5 | Then of course it seemed to have been predetermined all the time . |
| 6 | But er it , it , it er it appears to have been overlooked that , erm some of the directors who were in the bracket in nineteen eighty eight of two hundred and thirty thousand to two ninety five thousand have been increased from three hundred and fifty five thousand this year to a top of four hundred thousand . |