Example sentences of "[be] [verb] and [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , other employees who had gone to the canteen on commencing a shift had not been dismissed and none of them knew that they risked that penalty . |
| 2 | Local members as , er appreciate with this paper will be kept informed and will also I should of said the Chairman of the Transport and Road Safety Sub Committee , because the process of consultation wo n't work effectively unless local views are heard and they of course can be heard through the local member . |
| 3 | And erm they said well you 've got to come off it , you know , were not going to do you this time , but you 've got to come straight , stop doing it all , erm , cos you 've been reported and your on the Social Security . |
| 4 | Police are investigating and anyone with information should contact . |
| 5 | Within its shaking beams , there was nothing to be heard and nothing to be felt but the scream and roar of the wind , and the clattering percussion of objects striking the walls and the shutters , and the thunder of water outside , becoming louder and louder under a chattering ground-base of discarded boulders . |
| 6 | We do not want to have a future relationship of United States and Latin America reproduced in South Africa , which so many people talk about now when they talk about South Africa as the engine of growth if we have that kind of growth it 'll be distorted and none of the poor in South Africa or the region will benefit from it . |
| 7 | There was not a weakness to be seen and no-one at the game would back against them ending a 26-year wait for the Championship . |
| 8 | I do feel that this is necessary because we are allocating or just allocating our proposed budget er a substantial amount of extra resources through the rights of way which I am thoroughly in favour of but I do think we need to know how that money is going to be used and which of the items which are to appear in the report are going to be covered by that money and which is still going to need to be addressed next year when we have to book in time for it for next year . |
| 9 | It may take five years , he wrote , or it may take ten , or a hundred or a thousand , but sooner or later everything in the mausoleum will be affected and everything in all the other mausoleums in the city , and everything in all the other mausoleums in the country , and everything in all the other mausoleums in the world . |
| 10 | With opinion polls showing Labour ahead of the Conservatives , many health service managers are biding their time , not prepared to press forward rapidly with changes which could soon be reversed and which in any case they are reluctant to endorse . |
| 11 | Derek refused and they again threatened him that it was the only way to save his sister from being interned and himself from being charged with murder and gunrunning . |
| 12 | September is an important month in the greenhouse , with seeds and cuttings being prepared and plenty of bulbs ready to be planted . |
| 13 | ‘ If he went now he would see all his previous life here as a waste of time , and in a way he is wreaking vengeance on his mother by being embittered and something of a failure — saying , look what you 've done to me . ’ |
| 14 | With the spread of trolleybus conversions across West and North London all the older ex-L.C.C. and ex-Metropolitan types of car were scrapped and everything from the London UniteD Tramways was scrapped except the Feltham type modern cars . |
| 15 | All the advantages of natural monopoly are achieved and none of the disadvantages , because their pricing structure is optimal given the breakeven constraint . |
| 16 | Additionally , the aforementioned bank of LEDs indicates which mode is selected , whether or not the TriAxis 's effects loop is engaged and which of the preamp 's outboard switches is activated . |
| 17 | Where the middle contract was overpriced , relative to the near contract , one middle contract was sold and one near contract purchased . |
| 18 | The smile on her sweet mouth quickly faded though the moment the door was opened and she at once took in the unusual pallor of Cara 's skin and the fact that , if she was n't mistaken , her dear sister had recently been crying . |
| 19 | The concern , though , was always with where the music was going and which of its layers were propelling it , so that the occasional sudden stillnesses became a real opening-up of another dimension in the music 's workings and vision , not just a refuelling stop for the orchestra . |
| 20 | Then a dreadful thing happened , or so I heard , for they had left the farm by then , ; the poor Rector — I expect it was his own doing , for they say he drank far too much — set fire to himself in bed one night , and the house was burnt and he with it . |
| 21 | They hope the £10,000 reward may now prompt an answer to the riddle of why he was killed and who by . |