Example sentences of "be [conj] [pron] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Indeed , ’ said Bishop Jon , ‘ 't is to be hoped that the two saintly souls got on well together in life ( if so be that they ever met at all , which I take leave to doubt ) now that the lord King has made a packet of them , so to speak , for posterity . |
| 2 | The , the possibility is that they just looked after one sex better than the other and there is some anec anecdotic evidence that this kind of thing occurs , which I have n't got time go to into because I 'm getting towards the end of the lecture . |
| 3 | The funny thing is that I never expected to be an artist . |
| 4 | What I will tell you , and I will tell for the very first time , is that I personally dealt with people whose future may well have been considered under the terms of the AMO . |
| 5 | yeah , that 's the core but it needs fleshing out more and a has agreed that you know it 's if you just stuck to the Editor 's Handbook it 's too narrow and it does need , I mean B A I E in London thus far are being extremely helpful if slightly cautious and I 've to go down and talk to the revamped education committee when the revamped education committee gets around to having a meeting |
| 6 | His main principle with regard to the past was that nothing once given to God or the saints could be restored to the kingdom of this world without injustice . |
| 7 | Finniston 's greatest disappointment during his time at British Steel was that he never succeeded in persuading the unions to form a single group to simplify negotiations . |
| 8 | But the important thing was that I just wanted to be free . ’ |
| 9 | When I was , shall we say , inducted into the SS , the deal was that I only operated against the Russians . |
| 10 | My great regret was that I never recorded with Busch . |
| 11 | That parallel world really exists , and what happened to me in 1978 was that I unwittingly blundered into it . ’ |
| 12 | To begin with er I could n't find the light switch because my , my gaze was directed er at the people in the bed but then er I asked the man in the bed , where was the light switch and er he helped me back towards the area where the switch was and we eventually succeeded in getting the light on . |
| 13 | That was if I ever got to the bottom of the steps that make up one of the island 's most spectacular walks . |
| 14 | He was if anything more irritated by the quiet drumming of the electric typewriter than by the clatter of the old mechanical one . |
| 15 | I was when I actually bumped into the Bishop of the other day . |