Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Hard experience has taught me to be selective in my procrastination . |
2 | She 's forgiven me for being such an ass with my ultimatum the other day , ’ he added , then sighed , ‘ I do wish she was coming back to her flat . ’ |
3 | In the Middle Ages , when the French adjudged them to be alien , difficult and heathen , they were held to have descended from Scotsmen transported to Spain by Julius Caesar . |
4 | ‘ You would n't want me to be vain . |
5 | ‘ Do you want me to be nice or honest ? ’ |
6 | I knew he would n't want me to be pushy and , hard though it was , I decided to wait until the end of the week and then invite him round for dinner . |
7 | ‘ Do you want me to be married ? ’ |
8 | You do want me to be precise about what I tell you ? ’ |
9 | But EMAP said yesterday that by cutting overheads , it expected them to be profitable this year . |
10 | She expected them to be ready , mounted , properly turned out and willing . |
11 | After the heavy rains of the past days I expected them to be full , and they were , a lot fuller than when I had seen them the year before . |
12 | After the game , Hungarian officials lodged a complaint against the Newcastle team , specifically Gallacher , accusing them of being drunk and disorderly . |
13 | ‘ Are you accusing me of being dull ? |
14 | ‘ Are you accusing me of being involved with the people who did this … are you ? ’ |
15 | Her voice shook with anger as she said , ‘ You 're accusing me of being underhand ? ’ |
16 | So perhaps we should be thinking more about political education and perhaps we should be thinking more about encouraging them to be non-conformist in the sense that they are prepared to ask questions , to challenge and not to accept glib answers that teachers give out willy nilly … |
17 | I shall mention some of the issues to which the hon. Member for Stamford and Spalding ( Mr. Davies ) referred , although there seemed to be a lack of logic in his remarks because he cheered the Government on while encouraging them to be careful . |
18 | erm because after all there 's not point in having these gradings and stars and whatever if people do n't a ) know about them and b ) trust them to be independent . |
19 | We do not want them to be upset , so we keep them away from funerals , or from saying goodbye , face to face , to their relatives and friends . |
20 | She knew that her grown-ups were frightened and she did not want them to be frightened , but she also knew that Fenna was a mightier protection than all their loving care could ever be . |
21 | People say : ‘ Students are by definition idealistic and impatient — would Mugabe really want them to be any different ? |
22 | Would you want them to be able to express their emotions more intensely and precisely , able to show how they feel ? |
23 | Such cases are rare , though the Queen would probably prefer them to be nonexistent . |
24 | When planning internal verification , centres must bear in mind that staff carrying out the role must have the experience and background to enable them to be effective . |
25 | I 'm all in favour of early retirement , but actually acknowledging then , the people who retire , have that contribution , and I think we ought to be developing a way of our society to ensure that they 're able to live reasonably comfortably , and so that the pension should actually be a living wage , to enable them to be free , to make those sort of contributions . |
26 | Some of the larger firms of surveyors produce property indices , but the statistical sample is probably too small to enable them to be reliable . |
27 | alcoholic they abilitating teaching them to , to live again and , and getting into the community , helping them to shop and you know helping them to be self sufficient . |
28 | It 'll establish efficient links between North Oxfordshire 's farmers and the police helping them to be quick off the mark if anything dubious is noticed . |
29 | They were shooed away by the Sheikha , who rebuked them for being naughty and greeted me almost in the same breath . |
30 | That is the same as pardon me for being rude it was not me it was my food |