Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb pp] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What have I got to be unhappy about ? ’ |
| 2 | This situation would be the phenomenalist 's ideal ; all such non-observation statements would be strongly verifiable , and sceptical doubts about them shown to be impossible . |
| 3 | What 's she got to be scared of me for ? |
| 4 | Jezrael asked in surprise , ‘ What have you got to be sorry for ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ What have you got to be happy about ? ’ he wondered . |
| 6 | It 's not what they said , it 's the looks you got from some of the screws , as if to say , ‘ You should n't be laughing , what have you got to be happy about ? ’ |
| 7 | Erm so this means that the house that you were so er happy with and have you continued to be happy with it ? |
| 8 | Would it not have been kinder had she pretended to be glad — since it was Christmas time , after all — when Odette had come rushing to show her that letter from her father ? |
| 9 | Are you required to be persistent at repeating the same task many times ( phoning sales prospects , for instance ) or persistent in seeing a long , slow project through to the end ( overseeing a two-year training programme , for instance ) ? |
| 10 | Why are we expected to be stunned into admiration each day by the media , which invites us to ponder the fortune and greatness of those who are the most voracious consumers of the precious treasures of the earth ? |
| 11 | Only as long as old age is presented as an intolerable burden falling on the shoulders of the young are we persuaded to be pessimistic about the future . |
| 12 | Have we got to be quiet ? |
| 13 | Or are they expected to be grateful that after the hamfisted handling of Sir David ( now Lord ) Wilson 's resignation , Hong Kong is to be the possible reward for a loser in the game of political musical chairs ? |
| 14 | are they meant to be mouldy like that ? |
| 15 | Is the quality of modern-day appliances really improving or are they meant to be disposable ? |
| 16 | Are they taken to be prepresentative in some way ? |
| 17 | Erm the other point of course , this is raised in matter B , as it 's written is it considered to be restrictive too restrictive er and third and secondly , is it giving you er guidance which properly reflects national guidance . |
| 18 | It was not until my teenage years that my notions of which history was mine began to be complicated . |
| 19 | Was it thought to be rough by everyone else ? |
| 20 | Such an acquisition of skills from existing practitioners , were it proved to be effective , might just be a defensible strategy for maintaining present levels of teaching quality ( assuming we would be satisfied with that ) . |