Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pron] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An example of such a statement might be , " For me life simply has no meaning " , or , " Even when I am enjoying myself I often feel that I do n't belong " . |
| 2 | Southern are reissuing everything they ever did , plus an LP of their legendary sweat hell sex war last British gig ( hey ! |
| 3 | Soon as they what you 're doing they you down . |
| 4 | You 're doing it nobody else . |
| 5 | Yeah if you 're taking it you just want a laugh and you know you 're not affecting anyone else but if you 're dealing you 're pressing other people to buy it . |
| 6 | ‘ They are giving us something incredibly precious . ’ |
| 7 | My normal reaction would have been to attack back but I was too tired , so I said : " If I understood from what I have been saying what you obviously understand — then I would agree with you . " |
| 8 | They will not win you any prizes but , if you can manage to knit just one of them , you will be helping someone who really needs your help . |
| 9 | Most will still be farming what they always farmed . |
| 10 | Well I 'm enjoying it myself very much indeed . |
| 11 | They spoke with contempt of the simpleton who regarded what was really death as life , and prayed that they would be shown what everything really was in this house of illusion . |
| 12 | The Australians wo n't be giving us anything now they have their noses in front . |
| 13 | ‘ But if I 'm ringing you I just hope you answer faster than you did yesterday . ’ |
| 14 | Now , seeing Liz on the threshold , she waved her knife in greeting : ‘ So there you are , Liz darling , ’ she cried , ‘ and a Happy New Year to you , and I 'll be telling you something about 1980 , you mark my words , you mark my words , all of you — broccoli will go out of fashion , that 's what will happen in 1980 , and no mistaking ! ’ |
| 15 | Well I 'm not supposed to be telling you it anyway ! . |
| 16 | But , if the end-result of the changes has not been significantly to reduce spending , it remains to be determined what it actually has achieved and what has been at stake . |
| 17 | I had been awarded something I never dreamed I 'd be eligible for . |
| 18 | Erm throughout this you know since we 've since we 've been talking you you very clearly have given me erm picture of the people who own the quarries and own the and have the erm of the directories . |
| 19 | There have to be some standards but a track record is more important than spending three weekends away being taught something you already know , and I 'm quite happy to stand or fall on my personal record . |
| 20 | In the second-person sequences , he is addressed by the voice of his subconscious which , speaking in the future tense , takes him back to relive the moments of truth when he made the choices which were to determine what he later became . |
| 21 | As Lewis tells us in the preface to the published version of this book , his initial reaction was to wish for anonymity , ‘ since if I were to say what I really thought about pain , I should be forced to make statements of such apparent fortitude that they would become ridiculous if anyone knew who made them , . |
| 22 | Yet , as we shall see , what individuals choose to censor has an important impact , because the individuals not only cover up that they are censoring something they also strive to cover up the cover up . |
| 23 | In essence the business of this unit is to provide what it sensibly can and to purchase that which it can not provide . |
| 24 | What I can do is bring you someone now on the line who can tell us exactly why that decision was made and exactly why that money was spent in the way it was because we 've been joined by Councillor John Power . |
| 25 | I 'm pessimistic because I believe that if the council is to tackle what I still believe to be a big problem of the local authority then it can not really do so without the support of the largest party on this authority and if we have heard erm an honest assessment of their perception of of the case , I I really I really do despair that this council will will get to the bottom of the problem . |
| 26 | Mrs 's paying me one too many days . |
| 27 | Er many of us remember Gordon in the sixties working with a small group to get this place built thirty years on does he feel the playhouse is doing what he then hoped for and if not what are the things that have changed it ? |
| 28 | erm What you ca n't do is take somebody who really the very idea of computers , and turn them into a successful computer operator , because they will make mistakes , and having made mistakes they will be terrified and wo n't want to do it again . |
| 29 | Right who 's having which one then ? |
| 30 | All we are doing is repeating what we already know . ’ |