Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Court archives included much material of interest , but the people who consulted them were almost exclusively clerks who needed to establish points for cases : they were not used for history-making . |
| 2 | ‘ Wales have made enormous strides , but I would like to see them being more creative before I would say they are a real force again . ’ |
| 3 | I can appreciate Edouard would rather have me wasting my time at the museum instead of going round to his flat and trying to persuade Barbara Coleman to leave , but sending someone to kill me was rather an over-reaction . ’ |
| 4 | But the time involved to saw them was too much . |
| 5 | Martyn referred to Miller 's use of works by those better versed in scientific aspects of gardening , to whom due acknowledgment is given , and concluded with an appreciation of the author 's own industry : ‘ As to the practical part , he has given t is hardly anything but from his own knowledge and of the great number of plants mentioned in his book there are scarce any which he has not cultivated with his own hands . ’ |
| 6 | Courtiers who had come to expect her barely to acknowledge them were suddenly treated to radiant smiles and cheerful banter . |
| 7 | The Chairman of the Governors asked me was there a precedent in a flowing her to come into the interviews , and I said ‘ No , the precedent has already been set and that she was n't in on the other appointments . ’ |
| 8 | Alan Macfarlane has recently argued that the social pressure to enforce them was less strong in England than elsewhere . |
| 9 | Detecting these patterns and helping them be most noticeable in the book has been facilitated by the programs to traverse the document and programs which give summaries of the characteristics of the node names . |
| 10 | Sheep , in contrast , are God 's creatures , and the ideal image of the men who tend them is naturally that of the Good Shepherd . |
| 11 | As post-war critics of both social and economic policy were to indicate , strategic planning with clear long-term goals and the machinery to implement them was rarely to be found . |
| 12 | On one hand , you have the ultimate spartan aesthetic for portraits : the passport photo — cold , detached , flatly lit etc — and on the other hand , there are heavily manipulated images in which the person who 's producing them is far more physically involved . |
| 13 | DIP first began as a concept around 1980 , but at that time the components were prohibitively expensive and the software needed to drive them was very rudimentary . |
| 14 | They had both been asked about other men who were in France and answered patiently , knowing that the distraught women who asked them were only clutching at straws . |
| 15 | MI5 claimed to have carefully investigated each of the stories and told the inquiry that no evidence to support them was ever found . |
| 16 | I 'm not sure whether he would have taken action against me if I had realised I was already in his book . |
| 17 | But I realized I was most surprised . |
| 18 | I do n't think I am either . |
| 19 | Many people may think I am rather strange in comparing two horror books . |
| 20 | I agree with Jenny but I do n't think I am too frightened to slop on paint cos you know since I 've started doing pallet knife paintings cos it 's really made me feel fair more confident . |
| 21 | No , I do n't think I am actually . |
| 22 | I do n't think I am fully recovered , and today I am no taller or heavier than I was when I was released from hospital in 1983 . |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't want to say too much as people will think I am only concerned because if the new rules come into force it will mean Shelford ca n't play for us next season . |
| 24 | ‘ You do n't think I 'm normally as effing calm and relaxed as this , do you ? ’ |
| 25 | ’ I do n't think I 'm particularly eccentric . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't think I 'm even in the top 10 of slow players . |
| 27 | I do n't think I 'm even gon na bother revising for this . |
| 28 | ‘ Just why do you think I 'm here ? |
| 29 | Why do you think I 'm here ? ’ |
| 30 | He said , " You need n't think I 'm just going to give up , that I 'm just going to take their word for it ! " |