Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [adv] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your product implies that women are somehow unpleasant to be near and in need of very special washing to be civilised company for anyone . |
| 2 | Thanks for your letter — but it is not a separate flat we let , it is our ( untidy ) home , and in saying ‘ you could have the flat if we are away ’ , I meant that my husband , the owner , is happy for you two ( ie you and your husband ) to be here if for some unlikely reason we are unexpectedly away at that time . |
| 3 | Payment of salaries and pensions was 221,600 million roubles in arrears , and half the population was said to be on or below the monthly minimum consumption level ( set in June at 2,150 roubles ) , as prices for goods and service rose faster than wages and food production fell by 23 per cent . |
| 4 | Well , she was generally fed-up , knowing she had to keep resting her ankle if she was to be up and about as soon as possible . |
| 5 | It would n't do to be up and about too early , would it ? |
| 6 | On Sunday night there 's a traditional smoking concert in the Town Hall but the organisers have to be up and about again early on Monday morning to make arrangements for a full carnival-type procession featuring decorative floats , juvenile jazz bands and various fancy dress competitions . |
| 7 | Support dipped sharply to 51 per cent only when the Americans were held to be largely or in part to blame for the failure of the Paris Summit in May 1960 . |
| 8 | No it 's to much of a , I hate saying I 'll go out at eight o'clock and tell him to be home and at quarter too eight he has n't come and oh , I 'm to tired really , but , so I 've always played it that I will help when I when I can , but uhum , I do n't go on the committee , cos then your stuck , you 've got to go . |
| 9 | Lodgings/digs These are generally unpopular with most students because of cost , set meal times and general restrictions — such as the number of baths allowed — and the times by which you are expected to be home and in bed ! |
| 10 | At that moment she would have willingly given her right arm to be anywhere but on Nathan Bryce 's boat . |
| 11 | But you do have a right to be there and to be heard . |
| 12 | In gaol he refused to try to understand how he came to be there and during the years of his imprisonment spent much time sobbing in his cell as a desperately hurt child sobs . |
| 13 | She could n't guess why Sandra Kettering in her detailed instructions had arranged for her to be there and for that mistake to be made . |
| 14 | Now some clubs are quite happy for an ad to be there and for the golf club name to be there . |
| 15 | In the case of the work of the Mexican Alberto Gironella , the reason would seem to be precisely because of his insistent concentration on art of a very different category — that of Spain during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , particularly court portraiture . |
| 16 | She did , I 'd never forget it as long as I live , I thought to myself well you stupid cow , all she could think of was a fifty pence key , so I , I said to them , I said to the girls I 'm glad to be out but of course when they all went cos there was Lynda and all the girls from customer service that were kicked out and all of us that were there and they all said oh we 've got ta go back to work and we said oh ai n't that a shame you know , and we all went |
| 17 | The early evening rush hour slowed my return to Stuart Street but I was still the first home to No. 9 , and even Lisabeth seemed to be out or at least locked in her cage . |
| 18 | That will be proved to be so because of the dogged , persistent and brilliant negotiating work by the Prime Minister , the Foreign Secretary and his two Ministers of State , especially my good friend the Member for Watford ( Mr. Garel-Jones ) . |