Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] to be [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh yes indeed , indeed , well only last week I said do need some flowers , come on Thursday they 're fresh , I said I want them now Lionel , I hate to be without flowers in the room and he said well have two for the price of one , he would insist that I had two bunches for the price of one . |
| 2 | No matter how realistic and cautious I tried to be about changes at home , in my heart I only wanted reassurance that things would be as before . |
| 3 | But she loves to be with children . |
| 4 | Yet the choice of Bull as a partner is an odd one , for he and Lineker are essentially penalty-area predators and past experience has shown that when two such players are used together they tend to be like dogs after the same bone . |
| 5 | This paper argues that marketing is a total concept and has much in common with quality ideas , yet too often they seem to be at odds . |
| 6 | They seem to be like texts that allow for various interpretations ’ ( Ziegler 1987 : 70 ) . |
| 7 | They wanted to be like others — and the others , more often than not , were middle-of-the-road Church of England . |
| 8 | And their conclusion is , he could n't stand up to , to Lloyd George in and the reason was these were strong , erm , male leaders , and Wilson , when it came to being with men , er , was weak , and the question asked is , why was he weak in dealing with men ? |
| 9 | It seemed to be of horsemen having a nice peaceful ride in the wood — picnickers , almost — until I discovered the animal , when it became perfectly clear that it had been a hunting scene all along . |
| 10 | If local authorities have not been able to find sites how much more difficult is it going to be for gipsies themselves ? ’ he said . |
| 11 | It appears to be about matters of accommodation and staffing . |
| 12 | Parent-child identification is less clear-cut among girls than it appears to be in boys . |
| 13 | From 1 January 1994 underwriting agents will only be permitted to act as combined agents with Council consent if the agent has not more than 100 members , or it appears that the members ' agency function is sufficiently autonomous , or in the case of a combined agent whose members ' agency function is limited to run-off , it appears to be in members ' interests . |
| 14 | Grown-up critics manage to deny its appeal ( probably the very same priapic excitement they derived from rock in their unreconstructed youth ) because it seems to be at odds with their sexual politics . |
| 15 | It is true that the carefully authentic material has to be explained more fully than it had to be for readers of Marryat 's day , who could be supposed to possess a modicum of previous knowledge of naval affairs . |
| 16 | He had been immersed in the clean up work for nearly a month and he wanted to be with friends who restore and collect aircraft and who could empathise more fully than most with him about the size of the task and who also might offer some constructive ideas ‘ At first I was in shock , it was too much to comprehend ’ , shared Kermit . |