Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [be] [prep] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I asked if you also were to be told but mama said nay — you are younger than myself , she said , and are unlikely to wed for some time . |
| 2 | However quickly he may have acted , the actual taking of the handbag must have taken more time than seems to have been available — since Eddie Stratton and Shirley Brown were seen walking out of The Randolph almost immediately , if the evidence of at least two of you here is to be believed , the evidence of Mr Brown and Mrs Roscoe . |
| 3 | Students of literature , traditionally resentful as they often are to be told they might be engaged in anything severely useful , found they could sell their talents abroad as teachers , and had to tolerate the uncomfortably realistic view that the nation might recover through the teaching of English some small part of the wealth it had lost on technical adventures like building and running Concorde . |
| 4 | To read about her here is like being shown someone 's snaps or scrapbook — perhaps an underrated pleasure . |
| 5 | He purchased of me — the copies left on my hands — and he alone is to be applied to on the point you wish answered . ’ |
| 6 | Huy started to walk away , realising with bitterness how far away he still was from being accepted in this new society , and realising to his renewed surprise how much he wanted to be . |
| 7 | Well it probably was to be expected really under the circumstances . |
| 8 | Ultimately , it too was to be opposed , on the same grounds . |