Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knowing what he had been through just added a new dimension to what I saw . |
| 2 | Not been through much have they ? |
| 3 | I do n't like the cold snaps but they have n't been for long have they ? |
| 4 | Market expectations are for little change upwards in the RPI from the latest figure of 7.3 per cent . |
| 5 | Erm you already had , er , the opportunity to read my letter of the eighteenth of April er , circulated with the report and accounts , which fully explains the proposals being put forward and which are for firstly increasing the authorized share capital of the company creating two new classes of preference share er , renewing the board 's authority to allot shares renewing the board 's power to modify preemption rights authorizing the company to purchase its own er , ordinary shares reducing the company 's share capital by repaying the existing preference shares er , making certain amendments to the company 's employee share schemes increasing the aggregate sum available for directors ' fees and authorizing the company to issue summary financial statements . |
| 6 | But they are for ever moving and , where they meet in head-on collision , in what is known as a subduction zone , they produce one of the great geological dramas of the planet . |
| 7 | ‘ We are for ever saving each other 's neck , you and I. ’ He halted , striving to get his breath . |
| 8 | That 's the way with scribblers , they are for ever borrowing other people 's quotations . |
| 9 | This may sound obvious , but it is surprising how many editors say they are for ever clearing out photographs which have no identification . |
| 10 | Erm in your opinion er how how suitable do you think the flats are for actually bringing up s a family . |
| 11 | Fagg has put me temporarily in charge and , limited though my power may be , I intend to ensure that those under my care are for once treated like human beings . ’ |
| 12 | If nationalized industries previously had bad performances , they would have been worth little had they been sold at that stage . |
| 13 | But he found other allies as well , everyone in fact who had been uneasy with the extent to which traditional Catholicism had been of late put into question . |
| 14 | ‘ They 're for ever repeating themselves . ’ |
| 15 | You 're for ever stuffing your face |
| 16 | ‘ And now you 're in here costing the taxpayer even more money ! |
| 17 | You 're in here to work do n't |
| 18 | If they 're in here working all day and everyday and they see the other girls taking exams and they know I 'm going to make them work , quite often they 'll take the exams because there 's no point in not taking them , whereas I think if they were at home they would not have the same incentive . |
| 19 | but because I know you can do it I can say you another one to one conversation with you about it , but basically you 're no way near to guide the customer you 're in there to sell the customer |
| 20 | Whether it be welfare , gas bills , housing , you name it and we 're in there fighting to , to keep them above the water , their heads above the water . |
| 21 | You 're over here to help organize the royal visit . ’ |
| 22 | But I I du n no , I see it 's not once you 're u actually up here , looking I think it 's different when you 're up here looking back as when you 're over there looking up here . |
| 23 | No staff room or loo or anything I think we 're at least entitled to the odd bun ! |
| 24 | For the chick , it must have been like suddenly landing in the Sahara . |
| 25 | There are edges or discontinuities everywhere , and gardens are like vastly extended woodland edge . |
| 26 | Specialist local authority homes for dementia , to which new residents could be admitted , or to which residents of " ordinary " homes could be transferred at later stages , are a possibility , but are against strongly held principles of integration and continuity of care . |
| 27 | ‘ I have been in already to see my mother . |
| 28 | Had somebody been in there to see they would 've spoken to them |
| 29 | He would have been in there swinging with the best . |
| 30 | Reason they 're mixed up he , he must 've been in there messing about with them . |