Example sentences of "be [adv] [coord] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's been on and we do n't even know it 's been on . |
| 2 | That would have been rather But I come out here but I can not see you know you can just just get them I seen some in that |
| 3 | I thought of all the warm beds that I could have been in and I kneaded my fingers that were going numb with cold . |
| 4 | Erm , so what we wanted to do was , we 've had we 're doing quite well with the ov , erm , the five weeks we 've been together but we wan na make sure that you do combat erm a successful pact . |
| 5 | or they turn up at the gates and go shit Mr like the headmaster 's on the door and my nipples are in and they go hang on I 've got some ice cubes here , put them on and they come out and er they go by the nipples , your nipples are looking good today . |
| 6 | the whole place was gon na come to a halt if anybody fired a flash gun and furiously Fred grabbed the royal people and I grabbed the Finns and we started reorganising the present so they could take place under the enormous great windows that there are in and nobody had said at any time a flash gun will stop the machines . |
| 7 | Getting in can be quite difficult , but once you are in and you work hard , it will work for you . |
| 8 | Fortunately all eyes are elsewhere and no-one seems to notice . |
| 9 | Wishart had been away but he had heard the stories later , how Alexander had suddenly looked down the hall , dropping his cup and going pale with fright . |
| 10 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 11 | I 've been over and she did n't give me one . |
| 12 | Although many accountants are like you , other people are not and they see you as procrastinating , irritating and time wasting . |
| 13 | You show grandma what a big boy you are tonight and you talk to her nicely on the phone and you |
| 14 | ‘ Please try and remember that I did n't create the situation you 're in but I do have more experience of it than you do . |
| 15 | No they 're not but they 've been getting on all right really . |
| 16 | If they were good , you would say it 's good for our art-form , but when they 're not and they take our money , that makes me mad . ’ |
| 17 | In the Unification Church and they 're stealing a march on us right enough and that 's what they 're doing — stealing that march — and they 're up to no good in their unification and I know they 're not and they know I know they 're not and that 's why it all happened . |
| 18 | If you 're , if you 're outside and you get really cold what do you do ? |
| 19 | Well , sometime Wednesday you go , you really go through it cos you you 're not you 're not halfway through but you 're still but you 've done quite a bit . |
| 20 | Well I know you 're off but I mean that |
| 21 | ‘ However , you 're here and I know you have a key . ’ |
| 22 | Next time you 're outdoors and you spot a caterpillar , watch how it uses its legs and mouth to eat whole leaves systematically , strip by strip . |
| 23 | But we all we can do is reflect the position of women in society , and I do not think that what 's we 're about and I do not think it 's what the parliamentary Labour party . |
| 24 | But we both understand the pressures we 're under and we share a lot of assumptions . |
| 25 | I like bed , I like the female body , I like the way even the shallowest of women become beautiful when their clothes are off and they think they 're taking a profound and wicked step . |
| 26 | So tonight the wraps are off and I think you 'll agreeably surprised by what you hear ! |
| 27 | She had n't been home and she had n't been able to call in . |
| 28 | But there are many cases where the merging of meanings are more and we have to be on our guard . |
| 29 | Well that 's one of my next questions because I think it 's debatable either way , a a lot of people and I 'm finding this just want to be in a neighbourhood watch scheme to take advantage of insurance er and also to have the sign up once the signs are up and they got insurance they 're not bothered , and you can tell that by the er gist of the conversation on the telephone . |
| 30 | Well they came over here then and they 'd been up and they come back with Gillian and all that and they stayed . |