Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] to [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ian Rutherford 's beautiful , coloured photograph that she refers to was in the best possible taste and the reference to Gilbert and Sullivan could have caused offence only to someone with an inbuilt dislike to the two old stalwarts . |
| 2 | But she wants to be at home , with her husband , and lots of children , and dogs everywhere . ’ |
| 3 | If an elderly parent is giving up her home to move into yours it can be a very traumatic experience for her , even though you are ‘ family ’ and she wants to be with you . |
| 4 | yeah , she wants to be with the science lab , yeah |
| 5 | The new Eve momentarily wants to be a tragedy queen ; for a few flickering instants , she wants to be like almost ali the characters in literature whom we find most beguiling — Cleopatra , Anna Karenin , Madame Bovary , Eve herself in Paradise Lost — a figure who has risked everything for the sake of une grande passion . |
| 6 | But I think a feminist is somebody who knows that she wants a decent life , she wants to be in control of her own destiny , and who thinks she 's entitled to that . |
| 7 | This child wants to get back to school , she wants to be in the Christmas play . ’ |
| 8 | Mm , like , her dad says to her why do n't you be a doctor and she , but she do n't want to , you know , she wants to be in a hospital and that , she do n't want to end up in general practice |
| 9 | You know , she wants to be in a hospital |
| 10 | because he could n't get to there you see so I said well it 'll have to go now , well we 've got it shifted and it 's thrown away and , and that 's the end of that , so I says now when she does decide to come and she wants to be in here , well I said she 'll just have to carry a mattress in , and that 'll be alright just for her to sleep on |
| 11 | She wants to be near us . |
| 12 | Yeah , I suppose she has to be with Ryan |
| 13 | The school easily agreed to take her back , her friends were pleased to see her , and her daughter goes to day nursery on the days when she has to be in school . |
| 14 | She has to be in control . |
| 15 | She has to be in Beverley for eight o'clock . |
| 16 | But she loves to be with children . |
| 17 | She chooses to be with me . |
| 18 | The aria ‘ He was despised ’ can be quite a drag in the wrong hands , but she succeeds in making it one of the highpoints of the Oratorio , even though she appears to be under attack from a boa constrictor half way through . |
| 19 | She seems to be from a good family , and we want to trace them . |
| 20 | She can pencil in the weight she hopes to be at the end of each month . |
| 21 | " She deserves to be in prison , not in a local hostelry eating at our expense . " |
| 22 | She wishes to be like me , another famous Santis . |
| 23 | The provisions that he refers to are in the agreement that we have signed , which provides greater safeguards than before to ensure that the Community deals with those matters that are most appropriately dealt with by the Community and that other matters are left to national Parliaments . |
| 24 | to tell his constituents that with London 's share of world trade in financial services is increasing and is now at twenty seven percent that the financial services sector round the U K four point three billion , that those employees that he refers to are in fact in an industry which even if it is redistributing employment it 's nevertheless growing . |
| 25 | The article he refers to is in Practical Woodworking July 1976 p280 . |
| 26 | It needs to be of the highest possible standard , and the music which is used within it should represent a variety of styles and traditions , as a preparation for leading worship in the wider Church . |
| 27 | It needs to be on the agenda , both formal and informal , of most if not all staffrooms . |
| 28 | Erm in t the second most important criterion I would have thought is that it needs to be on a public transport corridor . |
| 29 | With less money but far more visitors , it needs to be at least as imaginative as its New York cousin . |
| 30 | It needs to be it needs to be at one at four , one at six or something like if we can possibly do it |