Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nancy could always be relied on to be there in an emergency . |
| 2 | But she was relied on to be correct , so no-one disturbed her as she worked , her arthritic hands holding a stubby pencil , her long , old-fashioned mask covering her mouth as she murmured to herself . |
| 3 | But of course it is only reassuring if the person can be relied on to be there whenever the need arises — and you can be sure that that is bound to be during the last class hour on the longest teaching day of the week . |
| 4 | The white Straker family had long disappeared , their genes and blood melded into the vigorous bodies of their freed slaves , and only the Straker name lived on to be given new dignity by Bonefish and his family . |
| 5 | Regis equalled Christie 's 20.09sec British record as he clung on to be second behind America 's Mike Marsh . |
| 6 | So the question he goes on to is , given its civilizing restraining role how did , what er , explanation can we give for religion in general ? |
| 7 | ‘ As to the outside world , I now take just sufficient interest in what goes on to be thankful that , though I am deaf , I can vote . ’ |
| 8 | She 's got to carry on with her career and she 's got to carry on with being a mother , both of which she takes very seriously , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Ann Butler had written to Uncle Nathan in Leeds to say that when Sarah went there to act as bridesmaid to her sister Christiana , she would stay on to be his new housekeeper . |
| 10 | One is that the children who are caught have to go again until they manage to sit down before being touched . |
| 11 | The first thing that Nigel got down to was , as I expected , fixing up his hi-fi , and on our very first evening that vast area reverberated with the great big beautiful noise of ‘ Also sprach Zarathustra ’ , so I felt truly at home . |
| 12 | Coates ( 1985 , pp. 27 , 77 ) , for example , argues that in recent decades narrative has broken down to be replaced by a cinema of ‘ isolated heterogeneous events held together by the ramshackle constructions of Victorian melodrama ’ , and that from the mid-1960s we have seen the dissolution of the distinction between realist and non-realist film . |
| 13 | What it essentially boiled down to was for a suitable building to be found in Moscow , while Costakis would provide the resources and materials necessary for the building 's restoration . |
| 14 | ‘ What it really boiled down to was immense immaturity in a grown man . |
| 15 | Each side panel can also be gathered in to be used as a doorway . |
| 16 | So from there you moved on to being , being a crane driver ? |
| 17 | You moved on from being on the dredger ? |
| 18 | I was took on to be able to keep the written terms and conditions . |
| 19 | One fact I did recognize and hang on to was that late afternoon was the best time to find a young mother at home . |
| 20 | Tab the tinker , who had come in to be shriven , had agreed to fashion a coffin of sorts out of thin planks of wood . |
| 21 | Opposite the front door I had come in by was a staircase which I proceeded to climb . |
| 22 | Your house your land your property your money , everything is going to come in to be dealt with via your will . |
| 23 | Modigliani moved in to be with her for the last few days and at the end of November Jeanne entered the Nice Maternity Hospital . |
| 24 | Naked Lunch is the first Cronenberg film I have sat through without being reduced to a state of rigid terror . |
| 25 | He woke in the small hours , feeling cold , and moved over to be closer to Carolyn 's warm body . |
| 26 | When one colony is markedly smaller than the other and so can not field an imposing team , it is raided , the queen is killed , and workers , pupae and larvae are carried off to be set to work in the victors ' nest . |
| 27 | We can not agree to something which starts off by being so fundamentally discriminatory that , year by year , it becomes even more discriminatory . |
| 28 | In one of these , Agdistis , a hermaphrodite , born of the seed of Zeus and Mother Earth , is castrated by having the male genitals torn off through being tied to a tree a not exactly common method , the reader will agree . |
| 29 | What they 're getting mixed up with is the mortal soul with it , is that when they 're using their imagination |
| 30 | She 's not all the Iron Lady she 's cracked up to be . |