Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the angina patient seemed to be stable he too was transported to an ambulance to be taken to hospital so that he could rest and fully recover from his attack . |
| 2 | When I get in there , they 'll be sorry they ever said that to you . ’ |
| 3 | It follows , therefore , that the most successful film advertising is likely to be that which best integrates audio and visual elements . |
| 4 | I should think it must be that one there or James Wattana |
| 5 | Sometimes she thought from the way he seemed to watch her that he might like her too but he had never said anything and Sally was beginning to be afraid he never would . |
| 6 | But because he knew that I and my group would be careful he happily let me use his basic materials — boards , palettes , etc. — and we brought our own paints and dyes and drawing materials . |
| 7 | Pace the unjustified slur , naming 10 famous Belgians is easy , even if the Singing Nun , the Mannekin Pis and Hercule Poirot are declared ineligible ( and Jacques Brel counts five of most other countries ' famous people in our book ) — and there could just be another one soon , in the person of Finance Minister Philippe Maystadt , who could become the father of a whole new economics after his proposal that Belgium levy a robot tax on factory machines to get humans back to work : it 's a great idea , and why not take it further and ban construction machinery from the roads to get the shovels back into navvies ' hands — and no doubt computers can be included under the tax , so that in no time , in a dramatic return to Victorian values , while the Belgian economy may not actually start booming , the country will have the world 's biggest quill pen industry . |
| 8 | To be clear one sometimes needs to be long-winded . |
| 9 | All this is said so nonchalantly , with so much gazing across the water and into the cloudy sky , that a spectator might be convinced we really did bump into each other in our lunch break . |
| 10 | They also like things which are quite so if the activity involving chairing a meeting , doing a role play , doing a presentation although they may be nervous they actually enjoy that , they find they gain a lot from that and they also like activities where to an extent there 's a freedom from constraints , policy structures , they do n't like to feel bound because if you think about it a lot of are actually exploring deep end situations trying new things out , they do n't like to feel that constrained . |
| 11 | I did that because I got an amazing about of money and to be honest I rather liked the idea of swanning around in a special effects car . |
| 12 | Erm then on the seventeenth erm we had our part at my house , it was very enjoyable as always , but to be honest I almost collapsed , I really had had it by then . |
| 13 | To be honest I never get much washing done during the winter months . |
| 14 | He did n't approve of me , and to be honest I never much cared for him , either . |
| 15 | Burger leaned forward quickly and , lowering his voice , said : ‘ Returning to our earlier subject , Garland half believed himself to be impotent he probably was , but he was obsessed by that damned girl he married and although she was good to look at , that was all — she was an immoral woman ! |
| 16 | The yellow card for a foul on Jochim and but Laws will be relieved he certainly could have gone for that . |
| 17 | you have to be sick you still get paid |
| 18 | And certainly you know I mean Yona 's list now of support for this next rally we 've got on March the first is huge I mean it 's sort of and that 's not gon na go away is it you know I mean next year I do n't know what we 're gon na be up to but hopefully we 'll be supporting somebody else in their er struggle for fair play and that network will obviously come into play you know I mean I 've we 've been South Wales have said , Oh you know these are all our contacts you know some of the women in South Wales and in Deeside they 've said these are all our contacts and these are the people that were good and did the work and got the leaflets out and brought the money in you know and it 's as simple as that really you know . |
| 19 | How can you be sure what really happened unless you can rerun it in slo-mo ? |
| 20 | This was because no-one could be sure who exactly within this group begot him . |
| 21 | I 've even known fire eating , sword swallowing , skiing and judo to be useful , and they are certainly eye-catching — but be sure you really can do what you claim ! |
| 22 | But Newton , known in the dressing room as ‘ Isaac ’ , still has to pinch himself to be sure he really has arrived in the big time . |
| 23 | The decisions that will be made on the common agricultural policy and on the GATT talks will be those which most affect farmers in the future . |
| 24 | There will be those who just can not get into gear , who will watch the private sector take over many of the functions which have been , previously been run by local government . |
| 25 | If they appear to be two-dimensional they suddenly seem less ‘ animal-like ’ and may avoid the unwelcome attentions of a hungry predator . |
| 26 | I saw him play here last year for Southend and to be fair he absolutely ripped er the Leicester defence apart . |
| 27 | Some of them would be outraged We certainly know that one of them was convinced by Jesus , Joseph of Arimathea was a member of the Sanhedrin and you know that , that later on we 're told of Joseph of Arimathea , but what did he do Michael do you know , does anybody know what Joseph of Arimathea did ? |
| 28 | No do n't be silly they just want vocabulary , they do n't want things like that , they want to know a person 's vocabulary a to cer you know , at a certain age . |
| 29 | No you do n't have to be horrible you just have to go up and say make the point that |