Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my experience the most effective way to resist his attempts to snag you is to heave at him with as much side-strain as your tackle strength will allow . |
| 2 | It was so skilfully effected that Giles and Cavell were metres away before Maria realised what was happening . |
| 3 | Her own sleep the light , fragmented pre-waking kind by this time , Maria realised what was happening at once and merely gave him a sleepily complacent smile , pleased to see the disturbance in his eyes as he regarded her suspiciously . |
| 4 | No , but every whenever his chest goes he 's |
| 5 | Investigations revealed he was driving without insurance or a licence . |
| 6 | and the story goes he was stuck within minutes . |
| 7 | The story goes there 's a little carved head which is nailed by the ears to the door and everyone here says that 's Oliver Cromwell . ’ |
| 8 | And the Board thinks there 's a reasonable subsidy to offer to its elderly residents . |
| 9 | So in the end , even the chairman agreed I was right . |
| 10 | Keith 's mum thinks he 's more like darts player Eric Bristow . |
| 11 | I sit there with a pair of tweezers going my mum thinks you 're so fussy , and I 'm like |
| 12 | My mum thinks I 'm having a great time , as I tell her that I am but it 's a lie , and it has n't got any better . |
| 13 | ‘ My mum thinks it 's OK too and Lol is great . |
| 14 | A team led by Basil Rose used a cloud chamber to measure the momentum of the neutrons coming from Zeta 's plasma , the measurements which they made in the spring of 1958 , showed that the fusion reactions producing them were between nuclei with on average a net directed momentum . |
| 15 | Within the British political culture it is rare for workers ( even manual industrial ‘ proletarians ’ ) to consider the wholesale expropriation of the property of another class as a reasonable political option , but if the financial institutions insist they are only guardians of the people 's savings then why should the ‘ people ’ not call them to account ? |
| 16 | One particular day , having struggled through an ugly crowd of protesters to the safety of the Welsh Office , the Prince announced he was going back out to talk to them . |
| 17 | Hirst admitted he was slightly disturbed by the bid at the time , but now says : ‘ The fact that we 're playing Manchester United means nothing special to me , nothing at all . |
| 18 | The only occasion that the present writer met him was as a member of a deputation to appeal for troop protection for Protestant homes that were being stoned and shot into by the Provisional IRA . |
| 19 | The Russians agreed they were legally at fault . |
| 20 | She added apologetically , ‘ Sophie thinks I 'm too romantic , and I suppose I am , but I must admit I 'd love to be protected . ’ |
| 21 | I said , ‘ Harvey thinks I am employed by Midwinter to check up on him ? ’ |
| 22 | But police have told Adrian that even though the driver admitted she was in the wrong , she 's unlikely to be prosecuted . |
| 23 | for example , too much weaving and rolling of bodies on the floor is hardly visible from the stalls , whilst too much concentration on one side of the stage finds spectators on the same side craning their necks to see what is going on . |
| 24 | They stood in a tight bunch and craned their necks to see what was causing the commotion . |
| 25 | ‘ We are not putting out any signals which might make the kidnappers think we are going to do a deal . |
| 26 | THE Algarve is a mixture of the most expensive and exclusive holiday homes in Europe and monstrous concrete high-rise blocks built before the authorities realised they were killing the golden goose of tourism . |
| 27 | Having opened the doors an hour late , the stewards proceed to examine in detail every bag and every pocket of Pop Will Eat Itself 's thousand-strong audience , wasting a further 45 minutes of everyone 's time while they play at being customs officers . |
| 28 | Having opened the doors an hour late , the stewards proceed to examine in detail every bag and every pocket of Pop Will Eat Itself 's thousand-strong audience , wasting a further 45 minutes of everyone 's time while they play at being customs officers . |
| 29 | The social scientist must conduct a fair and balanced enquiry , not allowing personal or political values to affect what is discovered and reported . |
| 30 | She would write her first reply in the bathroom , turning on the geyser to pretend she was having a bath and writing joyfully on a breadboard balanced on the small wooden basin ( they used a breadboard as a bathmat on the freezing floor , because he liked the genuineness of natural wood ) . |