Example sentences of "be [verb] [noun prp] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 However , as recently as last week , IBM is said to have realised that its shell technology does not comply with the Object Management Group Common Object Request Broker specifications and has been urging Hewlett-Packard to throw its Object Group-compliant Distributed Object Management Facility into the pot .
2 I mean we 're asking Kevin to help him now .
3 In Crabbe 's poem we are shown Peter deriding his dying father .
4 Observers are expecting DEC to rename its OSF/1 software soon .
5 So Mr Silver … in other words you are saying Leeds have their price .
6 So Mr Silver … in other words you are saying Leeds have their price .
7 I 'd been asking Peggy to get something like that for ages .
8 ‘ But , damn it , I 'm paying Colin to do it ! ’
9 I did n't feel it was sensible to er , get Monica going through that too many stages , it would seem to me it would better to agree the changes and then we 'd all agreed what the changes are going to be get Monica to do it , rather than go through lots of drafts , drafts with Monica .
10 I 'm sending Gill to get me loads of tops back .
11 David Brush , and we we 're still wa we 're waiting on a Lily , so I think we might be asking Naomi to do our Lily for u
12 no I am actually I 'm going over Ruth 's to pick Marcus up , I 'm taking Marcus to see somebody
13 I 'll be taking Lucy to see her honourable aunt . ’
14 I 'm leaving Steve to phone me .
15 I 'm backing Ian to break his duck at international level against Turkey .
16 Could it have been Sitting Bull warning me about the distortion of Indian history in Hollywood films ?
17 At first they refused ; the Shah thought that the Americans were using Sadat to get him out of the country .
18 One day we were celebrating Elizabeth beating her tumour , the next we were mourning her death . ’
19 He then asked Boyle for £30 for cannabis which he had given them earlier and when Boyle refused to pay until the t-shirts were sold Boyle claims he was attacked .
20 She and her friend Sharon have been pursued by some boys , who are taunting Carol to take her clothes off .
21 But I am sure there will be many former BC employees at Dawdon and Murton among them who will be wondering what might have been had Clarke shown his colours sooner rather than later .
22 Katalco business manager , said ‘ Hydecat is a major step forward in the treatment of wastes and demonstrates how catalyst technology is helping ICI improve its environmental performance . ’
23 Immediately after her portrait is completed Nicholas woos her in a typically crude , fabliau manner , presented by the narrator in appropriately marked , fabliau language : Alison puts up some resistance to this rude assault ( 3282 – 7 ) but as Nicholas persists , crying mercy and speaking fair , she seems in the end to be a relatively easy conquest for him ( 3288 – 93 ) .
24 Actually , what you should have done is got Jo to carry it around with her cos she could have got some very interesting conversations .
25 It is thought Joanne wanted him to stay on Tyneside .
26 Ignored until now , redevelopment is forcing Berlin to confront its history practically .
27 and everyone 's saying to me , no you know , she 's kissing Pat Swayze it 's something that happened .
28 What you must do is tell Irina to keep him in the clinic till I can come .
29 Noah 's cursing Canaan reminds us all too clearly of the cursing of Cain .
30 That 's because the WBC is insisting Lewis makes his first title defence against its No 1 contender , Tony Tucker , who is King 's man .
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