Example sentences of "be [pron] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What am I supposed to live on in the meantime ? ’ |
| 2 | When are you due to go back to the hospital ? ’ |
| 3 | She was still trying to cope with what she was beginning to realise was her over-reaction , though she could n't have said quite why she should feel so alarmed , when he told her coolly , ‘ You misunderstand me , Miss Everett , ’ and was on his feet too as , looking arrogantly down at her , he stated bluntly , ‘ Should I ever be so lucky as you suggest , then , be sure of it , I 'd throw away my rabbit 's foot , ’ and having forthrightly left her under no illusion but that should he ever get saddled with her then he would consider his luck had run out , he went on toughly , ‘ I already know the answer , but , for the record , I want to hear it from you — are you just playing around with Travis for the pure hell of it — or , ’ his voice had taken on a grim edge , ‘ are you in love with him ? ’ |
| 4 | well a number of things have come up so let's just take a couple of votes as er , from hearing from a few people and of which people have n't managed to speak so , first of all , er , er people talked about fear being larger than the incidence of assault , are you afraid to go out in the dark ? , button one for yes and button two for no do you find that your afraid to go out in the dark , and then this hundred and that 's a very , I mean that 's , that 's a very significant figure fifty seven out of this hundred women say yes that their afraid to go out in the dark from time to time , I mean that , that is not as it should be , let me ask you are you ever afraid in your own home ? , button one for yes and button two for no and that two is a very worrying figure , twenty nine of of this hundred say yes their afraid in their home , let me ask you this have you trained in self defence ? , button one for yes and button two for no , I mean its something that comes up from time to time and I do n't know what your view and whether or not its a good idea , well twelve of the hundred here have er , eighty eight say no , of those twelve would you recommend it ? , did it make you feel better ? , yes |
| 5 | ‘ Are you ready to get on with some work , then ? ’ |
| 6 | Are you able to come out at the weekend with us ? ’ |
| 7 | What information were you able to pass on to Superintendent ? |
| 8 | Well how is she supposed to find out from you what her job is , tarot cards , reading the leaves in your empty tea cups , extra-sensory perception ? |
| 9 | ‘ Seems like there is something special going on over there tonight , Taff . |
| 10 | It would n't in the least surprise me if there 's something nasty going on in the Ingard empire . |
| 11 | Even the dimmest goon is going to realize there 's something queer going on in all that time . |
| 12 | Is it possible to move out of grief or bereavement ? |
| 13 | ‘ So is it safe to get out of the bag now ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Is it harmful to come out of a temperature as high as 76 degrees after working twelve hours , into a cold atmosphere ? ’ |
| 15 | The feeling is mutual , but is he ready to run off to California with her ? |
| 16 | The feeling is mutual , but is he ready to run off to California with her ? |
| 17 | I 'd walk off to a respectful distance — I had no desire to listen to their conversation , there was nothing useful to pick up from that babble . |
| 18 | Certain individuals did — I do n't want you to think that nobody took it seriously , but my feeling was that in the school there was no great sort of feeling that there was something important going on during the self-appraisal . |