Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] be [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which I was for shying off anyway , because I do n't think it 's any of our , our business . |
| 2 | The owner wished to find out whether such a relationship could be formulated and used to predict sales in other shops which he was considering adding to his chain . |
| 3 | There may be some pleasures for which it is worth risking one 's life but to do so for a cigarette is an illustration of the sheer insanity of addictive disease . |
| 4 | Questions which it is worth keeping in mind when reading the remaining chapters in this book would be the following : |
| 5 | Nobody knows who you are on Remembering Night because you wear black clothes that cover you from head to foot , and there is no name of your name-animal . |
| 6 | Ah 'll tell you she was like dyin' — that pumpin' job had n't done no good at all . |
| 7 | It is as if they are saying , ‘ We believe in Jesus because he proved who he was by working miracles . ’ |
| 8 | We ran and knocked on the midwife 's door and Mrs Bullivant seemed to know who it was without looking , for she called out for Nelly to run and get newspapers and hot water ready . |
| 9 | Knowing who it was without raising her head , she waited until she felt him standing beside her , but when she looked up , already prepared for trouble , she was shocked by the intensity of the hatred that glittered from out of his eyes . |
| 10 | I can promise you it 's worth insisting . ’ |
| 11 | A rare one she is for putting her feet up and having an early supper in front of the telly you 've put in her room . ’ |
| 12 | But increasing despondency about the impracticality of using hired machines to carry out orders made her persevere , and the advice of friends and a local engineering firm convinced her it was worth bidding for . |
| 13 | Do n't tell me he 's after hiring new staff . |
| 14 | I suppose you may say : ‘ Why should I be more green ’ ? and what I say to that is : ‘ I do n't know what the reason is for you but I do know that for me it 's about showing compassion for the planet we live on and trying to hand on as much beauty and good-will as we possibly can to future generations ; while improving our own quality of life . |
| 15 | ‘ My mother told me it was like having red hair . |
| 16 | She 'd have looked a bit different , I can tell , from what she was like lying up there with her hair all cut off . " |
| 17 | Do you think you know what they 're about do n't you . |
| 18 | ‘ How do I know what they 're like to live with ? ’ |
| 19 | If a grown-up really wants to find out what it is like to live in a young person 's world , let him or her get down on hands and knees and go about like that for a week . |
| 20 | People in Britain tend to have strong feelings about what it is like to live in rural or urban areas . |
| 21 | Flupper tells them its story : not just what happened , but also about what it is like to live on Positos VI PH . |
| 22 | I know what it is like to love and be loved . |
| 23 | But what it is like to exist and survive within a bureaucracy ? |
| 24 | Niki has ‘ written ’ a whole book on what it is like to drive for Ferrari . |
| 25 | Imagine what it is like to sit through a meeting , go to the theatre or try to follow a further education class if it is essential to see the speaker 's face in order to understand what is said . |
| 26 | This might be characterized as ‘ what it is like to see ’ or ‘ what things look like ’ or , most especially , ‘ what colours are like ’ ( that is , what they look like — there is no difference in their case ) . |
| 27 | He combines the view that what it is like to see , for example colour is something BS would come to know on gaining his sight , with the view that what it is like to see , for example , colour is not a further fact in addition to the physical facts about the brain ( p. 146f ) . |
| 28 | He combines the view that what it is like to see , for example colour is something BS would come to know on gaining his sight , with the view that what it is like to see , for example , colour is not a further fact in addition to the physical facts about the brain ( p. 146f ) . |
| 29 | At first sight this looks like an uninteresting stipulation about how to use the word ‘ fact ’ — uninteresting because the anti-materialist could as well state his case using some such term as ‘ feature ’ or ‘ aspect ’ , and it is difficult to see how , once having allowed that there is something called ‘ what it is like to see ’ which one only learns by seeing , one could refuse to describe this as a feature or aspect of mental life . |
| 30 | So long as it maintains the idea that believers talking to unbelievers are like people explaining to the blind what it is like to see , reason may be tolerated . |