Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is used mainly where tantrums are severe and where it is felt that stopping them altogether is too big a first step . |
| 2 | In the 1990s the tasks are far more complex and conflictual and the social workers who must take them on are already part of the system that has to change . |
| 3 | I know it is with me , er , with Dad 's Army , so er , if they 're getting huge ratings with those repeats , well , they 're obviously gon na put them on are n't they ? |
| 4 | But what gets me most is when somebody dies who has n't really lived . |
| 5 | Even at the age of about 13 I 'd be guided only by people who I thought knew something about the game , and who were not thing to stitch me up-I was always thinking people were trying to stitch me up for some reason . |
| 6 | Well you know you 're writing them down are n't you ? |
| 7 | Greenaway 's obsessively elaborating and allusive aesthetics have always been strangely at odds with his reductive philosophy , but the insistent paranoid patterns — lists , correspondences , arcane games — which in earlier films served to bind them together are much less in evidence in the new film . |
| 8 | But the formula which brought them together was widely , and justifiably , condemned as unwieldy and tedious . |
| 9 | but what gets me down is not the royal bit , it 's the family bit ! |
| 10 | Right lovely thank you Ah I suppose I better be off to work . |
| 11 | I do n't know what sort of a pistol he held to their heads , but I personally was quite happy and had never been looked after so well in my life . |
| 12 | at the the time I think when I was n't being assertive and when I was n't the difference was the person was younger than me and I was being assertive and then when I perhaps was n't and like said you feel after that you 've let yourself down . |
| 13 | Many of the routine social situations we find ourselves in are clearly rule-governed , but it is often extremely difficult to specify exactly what the rules are or what are the potential breaches of the rules . |
| 14 | One can not really believe that the whole of the world is going to go on maximizing production of agricultural produce , when — I much is already destined to end up as mountains of grain , or butter , or meat — or lakes of wine or olive oil . |
| 15 | What made me finally decide to insist on this was when I realized that had you been a man , Miranda , or had I not been personally involved with you , I would n't have hesitated to ask for these shares . ’ |
| 16 | I would have enjoyed them even more had I not been about to faint every ten yards , but I was in far too bad a mood to tell my colleagues to slow down and wait for me . |
| 17 | I know this because after my machine arrived , the salesman whose job it would have been to persuade me to buy it , had I not been too quick for him , came to see me anyway . |
| 18 | Will I not be awful heavy ? ’ |
| 19 | Husband or wife do get excluded for instance because the marriage has not been a particularly happy one erm and there would therefore be no particular one why the deceased would leave anything to spouses erm but it 's worth saying so if that 's the case , to prevent an action coming along and saying Oi why am I not being there , why have I been left out ? |
| 20 | My not being there is hardly likely to lose us the account if Ru — ’ She stopped herself just in time . |
| 21 | ‘ I just been up the school , ’ answered Nelly , undoing her coat . |
| 22 | My ex-husband and I just were n't meshing . |
| 23 | I told her I just was just going to take photographs . |
| 24 | She came down to Riverside with me , watched as we rehearsed then followed me into the loo and gave me a blow job — something I just was n't used to as a 17-year-old grammar school boy still living at home with his mum and dad . |
| 25 | There were only two bedrooms and I had to share a bedroom with David 's mother , a living arrangement that I just was n't used to . |
| 26 | ‘ I just was n't thinking ! ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I just was n't thinking . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I just was n't capable then of giving the director what he wanted . ’ |
| 29 | I just was n't strong enough to lift them out myself . |
| 30 | But I just was n't giving the case what it needed . |