Example sentences of "be [adv] [pers pn] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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1 | Are n't I equally determined by the grand unified theory ? |
2 | Why are n't you not allowed the pink bits ? |
3 | Are n't you just bowled over with my brilliance ? |
4 | The last time I 'd been there I nearly got caught bunking my fare . |
5 | His voice , though , was getting stronger every minute , which might have been why he alone dispensed with the formality of leaving the stage between encores . |
6 | Is n't it attractively done ? |
7 | ‘ Is n't he ever robbed ? ’ |
8 | Usually this has been emphasised as an attempt to make a statement about which people in the population are most likely , given other interacting events , to develop psychotic illness ; in fact that is how we initially phrased the question here . |
9 | and it a it had happened to of slipped away at that time and I went to step off , and , with it not being blown up properly that 's how it just flattened and I went off sid I 've still got a big bruise on my left knee ! |
10 | No , no , no , that 's when they finally agreed |
11 | That 's when he actually got into the ‘ Diamond Dogs ’ period and when the show extended a bit more into the theatrical — more props with street scenes , a huge lift chair that went over the audience , and things like that . |
12 | I fully understood what she was saying to you the day you visited Kinghorn , which is why I almost burst out laughing . ’ |
13 | Which is why I personally ordered that the thing should be tracked twenty-four hours a day . |
14 | of this discussion was the fact that we had , and it was , certainly was the last time we talked about it because that 's why we only sent one person on it . |
15 | ‘ You thought I was on the pill , of course , that 's why you never used a sheath or anything . |
16 | That 's why you never got any runs . ’ |
17 | ‘ Do n't say that 's why you always lived in holes , ’ it said . |
18 | that 's why I really wanted to try all these other avenues cos I 'd watched them all and , and each one , no disrespect to any of them , but |
19 | I mean er that 's why I never done the yesterday . |
20 | that 's what I said to mum , you know , that 's why I so wanted to pass me , me test , cos I said to mum erm , see I kept it , I only had six hundred quid redundancy , six hundred and twenty eight pounds , that 's all I had , apart , I had me wages what was owed and me holiday pay , but my , me actual redundancy cheque was only six hundred and twenty eight quid |
21 | ‘ That 's where I really lost money , ’ says Mrs Orchardson . |
22 | And that was the real reason why it was stopped , because the the the the other dockers were going to refuse to allow ships to leave the ports with arms , and that 's where it really stopped , but you never heard , you do n't hear about it now in history . |
23 | ‘ And that 's where you always wanted to be , was n't it ? ’ she said with a slow shake of her head . |
24 | It was all he most hated . |
25 | The Upchers did not want anything elaborate , and although Repton had been famous for castellated picturesqueness , here was the perfect chance to create simple neo-classicism , which was all he secretly cared for and the conventional essence of those first twenty years of the nineteenth century . |
26 | It 's just that — at first he seemed to be so nice , he was so charming , he was a lot of fun — most of the time — and I did n't realise that was all he really wanted from me . |
27 | Now the war was over she seriously thought that the answer might be to move from Cramer altogether . |
28 | While he was away she never stopped reminding us at the top of her voice that she was n't a five by two . |
29 | Why was n't he more upset ? |
30 | I was n't smiling , but was n't I particularly troubled . |