Example sentences of "to [pron] [adv] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been worried out of my head for so long it was a tremendous relief to me just to be able to talk to someone . |
| 2 | Each society , of course , has to deal with many specific problems arising from its own culture and history , but there are also some general issues to be faced , and the two which seem to me still to be pre-eminent are those which I indicated at the beginning of this book : namely , industrialization and democracy . |
| 3 | Well , I mean , I think , er from , I mean certainly I do n't know how you feel chairman , but my view of this has changed if what Mr says is correct , then it seems that this seems , that this is the , the basic sort of day to day decision making erm , group , erm , and far more central to the purposes of W R A D than previously appeared , and there would seem to me therefore to be some case of paying an attendance allowance or else erm , deferring the decision erm , until we have even more information , but I think , if it really is the , the , the sort of decision making bit then attendance allowance ought to be paid . |
| 4 | At the door she suddenly grinned at him , and when she had gone the grin seemed to him still to be hanging in the air , like the Cheshire cat 's . |
| 5 | May 's comment on oxidized wares seems to us today to be quite astonishing : ‘ common flower pot red , or tile-red wares were as offensive for domestic purpose to the Romans , as to ourselves and should generally speaking , be regarded as ‘ wasters ’ — overbaked and distorted specimens which accumulate in heaps besides kilns as one sometimes made use of in their own locality ’ . |
| 6 | The mockery of such spirits would seem to us today to be capable of attracting their spiteful revenge . |