Example sentences of "[verb] a [noun] [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alex ‘ spit ’ Ferguson said about last nights delerious scenes at old Trafford , ‘ It is becoming a habit now is nt it ! |
| 2 | I quote from what Sir Allen Sheppard of Grand Met said yesterday : ’ One thing which no one could predict a year ago was exactly how long the recession would last This recession has not been an exclusively British phenomenon — as some people would have us believe . |
| 3 | 1.3 ) which are conspicuous in later biographical tradition , it remains trile that Polybius is vague enough about the trial of Scipio Africanus to lead a historian like be Sanctis ( St. dei Romani IV , I , p. 594 ) to the false conclusion that Africanus was never tried at all ( Polyb. 23.14 . ) . |
| 4 | But those people even those these people have their necessary necessary place because otherwise the whole group would merrily go on and do everything they decide to do without somebody sitting and saying wait a minute why are we actually doing this ? |
| 5 | A HUSBAND buried a year ago is exhumed by his wife every day ‘ to enjoy the sunshine ’ , says a newspaper in Kampala , Uganda . |
| 6 | Though I do believe a cow once was maimed . |
| 7 | Being able to afford a dog now is another advantage . |
| 8 | Phillip I 've got a problem where 's my |
| 9 | I mean I , I was quite fascinated having lunch one day with a journ a Melbourne journalist erm and this was about six months after Murdoch had taken over the Melbourne Sun all this and we were chatting away and I actually threw in the stuff which were saying about how papers are there to make profits these days so that 's what drives them and that journalists journalists on newspapers such as Murdoch 's papers , write what they 're supposed to write and she and I got quite out of with one another and and the bottom liner was that she , she absolutely totally and utterly denied what we were saying and I said to her okay if you were given a story to write you know and it was opposite to how you would view it , what would you do and she said oh well I , I would have to write it and the issue with the Murdoch papers and it 's quite interesting because I mean I 'm sure you can with other newspapers but I , I 've just got a bit more is that Murdoch never ever writes a minute or a memo to his editor or staff saying this is what the line is ever . |
| 10 | Got a day off is it ? |
| 11 | They 'd had a skinful so were n't in a particularly noticing mood but they saw and heard nothing , nothing except what they described as a kind of mournful whistling coming from deep in the wood . ’ |
| 12 | He'd' 've had really , well this is the he goes back on Monday and he 've had a month off been off for a month . |
| 13 | And yet unlike Mr Lorenz , who joined a company perennially being reorganised , Mr Hallman will lead a relatively stable management team . |
| 14 | But that 's still sort of limiting a bit though is n't it ? |
| 15 | Yes I think that the Scot 's are more puritanical and also I , I had three babies , erm I was pregnant out there and I flew back to Scotland to have them and the difference between going to a Swiss gynaecologist and seeing a doctor here was incredible . |
| 16 | The reason no one had developed a product before was Windows 3 toolkits did not appear until six months ago , Dawe claims . |
| 17 | Formed a year later is a detachment of 253 Provost Company , Royal Military Police ( V ) , whose headquarters is at Tulse Hill in South London , with another detachment at Southampton . |
| 18 | the test of whether a plaintiff had acted reasonably in bringing a case late was an objective one not subjective . |
| 19 | The banker 's decision to issue a credit nowadays is rarely based upon the availability of a ‘ clean , on board , negotiable ’ ocean bill covering the shipment of a readily marketable commodity . |
| 20 | The only people who make a choice today are the ones with self-inflicted wounds , and they get shot for it . |
| 21 | Yeah , sir , you know you said the house builders are secondary if they 're making something , they 're also providing a service though are n't they ? |
| 22 | fifteen , yeah I put them on get a drink On are they |
| 23 | Right now things are getting a bit better are n't they ? |
| 24 | Well she said herself she 's expecting a lad though is n't she ? |
| 25 | The adherence to professional standards and the desire to do a job well are motives that induce workers to serve their employers and customers well . |
| 26 | . We ai n't gon na be doing a lot anyway are we ? |
| 27 | Not asking a lot now is it ? |
| 28 | He 's just gon na have a lie down are n't you ? |
| 29 | We 're having a conversation now are n't you ? |
| 30 | Besides , he 'd just tell me that having a tower around was bad for business . |