Example sentences of "be [verb] [noun prp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had already been to see Mussolini in the previous year and had been advised to call his New Party ‘ Fascist ’ but to play down its military organisation . |
| 2 | I said Antony , have you ever been to see Jonathan about the photographs ? |
| 3 | THE FRANK & WALTERS are using MORRISSEY as a shinty stick and BETTY BOO is exchanging make-up tips with RICHEY MANIC . |
| 4 | She had been christened Nicandra on the insistence of her father who , in his luckier years , had bred and trained and ridden an outstanding winner of that name . |
| 5 | The Financial Times of April 9 suggested that Ye , a reformist who had been building Guangdong into a " free-wheeling relatively autonomous province " , had been appointed to the new central post in order to deprive him of his regional power base . |
| 6 | I 've been using RapidCad for a month or so and It 's not given me the slightest problem . |
| 7 | Doctors are keeping Tim on the life support machine for 24 hours to make sure the drugs have worked out of his system and have not ruled out all hope . |
| 8 | Journalists , desperate to break the story on the latest trend in designer drugs , are hyping Ketamine as the drug to take over from Ecstasy . |
| 9 | We 're meeting Ebert in an hour , do n't forget . ’ |
| 10 | Well , they 're touring Scotland at the moment , they 'll be back bi Wednesday . ’ |
| 11 | The counsellor said , ‘ You are describing Sarah in a very loving and respectful way — but you sound angry when you say that you expect me to pull you up for not describing her as a lover , too . |
| 12 | This is the last half hour of legal drinking time , and staff are pulling Guinness from every tap . |
| 13 | For over a year the press had been presenting Cripps as a dangerous radical , if not a republican . |
| 14 | No one had been called Emily for a hundred years . |
| 15 | He says they are moving Steiner from the Tower of London to a place called St Mary 's Priory . ’ |
| 16 | The other norw. players in the premiership seem certain of holding their places — players like Halle of Oldham , Thorstvedt ( Spurs ) and the rest of the pack are having a good spell at the moment ; Lars Bohinen of Nott Forest has in fact been nicknamed Super-Lars by the fans … |
| 17 | ISLINGTON 'S SAN Diego transplants The God Machine are quitting Britain for a while . |
| 18 | The Strawbs and er and Part of the Union and I 'm reliably informed by John Shaw that the Strawbs are supporting Lindisfarne at the Concert Hall in er December so there you are one to one . |
| 19 | I can remember Leslie coming home , I think I must have been expecting Doreen at the time , that was in , that was early early on , nineteen , well that was nineteen sixty three , and he was , he had heard that had I had been in the Gatehouse Drama Club , and er he said , Would I be interested in com in coming to the Drama in if they started ? |
| 20 | Their teachers are treating Jack like a single-parent family ! |
| 21 | When Douglas MacArthur returned to America , MacArthur had not been back to America since nineteen forty one this is ten years later , he 'd been running Japan in the meantime there was one of these huge ticker-tape parades in New York , he was the welcoming hero and President Truman was seen as the villain and some analysts argue that that decision , that single decision to sack MacArthur may well have cost Harry Truman the American presidency . |
| 22 | But if we want to adopt an approach to family life which is Christ-centred in its essence , we must ask how we are to glorify God in the relationship of parents to children and children to parents . |
| 23 | Its answer has been to reduce Dagenham to a single-product plant . |
| 24 | More than half the 100 exhibitors have indicated that they will be using Rooftec for the launch of new or updated products , and these will be short-listed for the Federation 's coveted ‘ Ken Soulsby Innovation Award . ’ |
| 25 | The newly elected chairman of the Law Society of Kenya , Paul Muite , who had been vilified in the pro-government media since he called on March 10 for the NDP 's legalization , was on May 15 alleged by a pro-government lawyer , Kokonya Mkolongolo , to be using Odinga as a front for his own political ambitions . |
| 26 | I I 'm using LocoScript on the Amstrad and it 's adequate and I can then just port ASCII text files across into WordPerfect . |
| 27 | Five climbers will be tackling K2 in the Himalayas in June as part of the Karakoram 8000 project aimed at benefiting the mountain environment and the local people . |
| 28 | And next week Julie Bradbury will be representing England in an international against Korea . |
| 29 | And next week Julie Bradbury will be representing England in an international against Korea . |
| 30 | Last year he won the Irish Junior Triathlon Championship and he will be representing Ulster at the British Championships in Swindon next week . |