Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It was as if the only thing he cared about was the stupid thing . |
| 32 | And the only thing I cared about was the damn foolishness of the banning . |
| 33 | The nurses here wrote down every day on Stephen 's chart how many hours he had cried , but neither Sloan nor Dr Turner turned a hair when they looked at that on the chart ; all they cared about was the weight curve . |
| 34 | All they cared about was drink . |
| 35 | All he cared about was booze , but he still got the job done before he got soaked . |
| 36 | In the winter of 1518 all I cared about was surviving and life was hard in Paris . |
| 37 | Soon the dandelions came , all they cared about was blooming , getting their white clocks and blowing their babies far away . |
| 38 | Take Frau Grossman , all she thinks about is finery and food , whereas Dr Grossman has his spectacles always in a book . |
| 39 | All she thinks about is clothes , shoes , hairstyles . |
| 40 | All she thinks about is being happy — and that means having the things she thinks will make her happy . ’ |
| 41 | ‘ But these days — and heaven knows why ! — all she thinks about is Jeff ! ’ |
| 42 | and she 'll just think about it , and the more she thinks about being depressed the more she 'll get depressed in thinking |
| 43 | When the workers who produce the wealth of society demand an increase in their pay to match the rise in prices they are rebuked for being ‘ greedy ’ . |
| 44 | Now it 's one of those unfortunate things that when people talk about maintaining standards , the only sort of , in an sense , external sort of guidance they 've got to go for are things like examination passes . |
| 45 | If you 're looking for an ‘ outsider ’ in the men' , I suppose the obvious name to go for is the currently out of form Andre Agassi , a hard hitter in the Courier mould . |
| 46 | Fluorescent lighting , however , can look cold ; the best colour to go for is ‘ de luxe warm white ’ ( not just ‘ warm white ’ — which is neither warm nor white ) as this is nearest to warmer incandescent light . |
| 47 | I trust , I trust that if there 's going to be any question of names coming forward to be a approved locally , not selected , I hope not selected , that they will be er they 'll come from the local level at which the police authority actually functions and not from other counties without that particular area and so My Lords , I would suggest er that er the best step to go for is er Lord MacIntosh 's Amendment Number Five and his er supplements and I would suggest My Lords that Amendment Number Twenty is resisted by your Lordships because it talks about one half of the members shall be members of a relevant council and I suggest above all My Lords that Amendment Number Twenty Seven is cast into outer darkness . |
| 48 | Well there is n't any more bricks to go for is there ? |
| 49 | differentiate that so the big the first thing to go for is the power is one less and then |
| 50 | She learnt a look and a posture and a set of adjectives which passed for being hip in the Village . |
| 51 | The answer was a kick on the eyebrow which I almost mistook for being shot . |
| 52 | He says he was made redundant from his storeman job but Mrs Smith says he was sacked for being drunk . |
| 53 | He says he was made redundant from his storeman job but Mrs Smith says he was sacked for being drunk . |
| 54 | In Australia his memory is revered for being a left-arm unorthodox spinner who occasionally sent down literally unplayable deliveries . |
| 55 | Certain combinations of landscape elements that I tend to search for were in short supply . |
| 56 | ‘ I was asking what you 'd do if you discovered someone you cared for was doing wrong . |
| 57 | I do n't think so when I went to let him in he 'd pulled himself up round the patio and looked as though he expected to be walloped for being silly he 's taken us this morning . |
| 58 | Indeed , the visitor could be forgiven for being a little disappointed , although when it is floodlit at night the theatre very much comes to life . |
| 59 | The other girls could be forgiven for being depressed — after all , they were facing a racing dynamo , who seemed indestructible , regardless of weather conditions . |
| 60 | Ken wrote asking to be forgiven for being ‘ a foolish old man ’ . |