Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But we do n't as a regular thing do much as far as the public is concerned but what we do do is training for tropical foresters , and during the summer vac . |
| 32 | ‘ I do n't know if it should be that important if everything we do is based on good sound scientific principles , because if people perhaps in the same industry are situated in different places in the estuary , y'know , if one was to point the finger at the other and say ‘ But you allow him to discharge such and such and you only let us do this ’ , then we should be able to turn round and say , ‘ Ah yes , but you 're discharging in a different place and the river quality in this different place needs different treatment . ’ |
| 33 | ‘ You forget , Fran , that , as a Capricorn , everything I do is based on hard fact , not imagination . |
| 34 | We think we do things for ourselves and all we do is live in odd corners of their world — under their floors , stealing things . |
| 35 | The EAT is staffed by High Court judges who normally sit with two additional members representative of employers and employees . |
| 36 | They will also completely cover up imperfections , have good sound and heat insulation properties and , if they 've been treated with protective spray , will last for years and years — long after paint has become chipped and discoloured , and paper faded . |
| 37 | Yeah I know but Marks and Spencers are a crap shop I do n't care if they go out of business they 're a rip off anyway , they 're so expensive , such crap clothes , they 're so common , that 's the word I 've been looking for common , that 's my word of the week I think er common common , does it not get to ya looking like everyone else ? |
| 38 | ‘ But I am a bit disappointed that while we 've been appealing for new directors nobody from the town has come forward . ’ |
| 39 | Not necessarily for us yet , but we 've been asked by Special Branch to take it on board . |
| 40 | ‘ I 've been living on odd bits and pieces , ’ he says , ‘ as well as the proceeds of my first novel . ’ |
| 41 | For nine years , I 've been living in unwedded bliss with my partner Christian . |
| 42 | They 've been marching with full-time soldiers in Horseguards Parade . |
| 43 | Right they 've er they 've been preaching against Spanish slates . |
| 44 | And to show you what the situation is er the world 's energy demand is very likely i i i is almost certain to increase er because of development in the world and also because of the growing population er that arrow is some sort of guess as to how the world er the demand for energy worldwide is likely to increase when you set that against the curves at the bottom which show the likely projections for oil and natural gas as you can see as we get into the next century those er fossil fuels , which we 've been using with gay abandon for many decades , will start to into er decline . |
| 45 | They 've been formed from separate corps looking after Transport , Ordnance , Supplies , Catering and Military Mail . |
| 46 | We 've not given anything away and if we 've been affected by other pressures — England , injuries and the like — then okay . |
| 47 | They 've been trained from early age have n't they ? |
| 48 | You 've been made for other things than politics and intrigue . ’ |
| 49 | They 've been developed after considerable consumer research and will evaluate new products and new service ideas which if found acceptable will be taken up by the M F I chain . |
| 50 | are napkins that we 've been buying in antique fairs . |
| 51 | FG : Would you say you 've been influenced by similar painters ? |
| 52 | Allow your tiles to acclimatise at room temperature for at least 24 hours before laying — especially if they 've been stored in cold conditions |
| 53 | Does it make them any weaker because they 've been adopted by young women who dislike the feminist label or by the ‘ I 'm not a feminist but ’ brigade ? |
| 54 | I mean you 've had Sue , Sue for example tied up on and all those sort of issues , Bob 's been dealing with pr pension conversions and stuff like that for , for months on end , so we 've been dealing with other projects , all that 's happened is the work has been redirected onto a different type of project . |
| 55 | He had an impulse to say , ‘ This is the music of 1988 ; these are our heroes ; that building on the headland is our architecture and I dare not stop my car to help children home because they 've been taught with good reason that a strange man might abduct and rape them . ’ |
| 56 | I 've got five so far and I 've been getting into good positions . ’ |
| 57 | His face had an unpleasant shine to it , the kind of shine you get on the walls of places where they 've been cooking in cheap fat since for ever . |
| 58 | Well obviously there is change and one of the things that we 've been doing for International Women 's celebrations during March , because we 're having a whole month of activities , is |
| 59 | So System Ten is the culmination of several years of work that we 've been doing with other hardware and software vendors but most importantly with our customers . |
| 60 | The Hunt Saboteurs have admitted they 've been infiltrated by neo-Nazi groups . |