Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But how could she possibly have been in danger ? |
| 32 | ‘ She had not had an easy life , especially towards the end , but the impression she always gave was of courage . |
| 33 | ‘ You always like being in charge ? ’ she heard him ask . |
| 34 | I think that what she really wants is for words to be more like numbers . |
| 35 | You really have been to houses |
| 36 | The highly organised St Stephen 's Society programme which she now leads was at that time a closed book to her ! |
| 37 | Emily Faithfull herself rather naively replied to one questioner : Suppose a printer receives from 30s to 36s a week and suppose his wages were reduced 10s per week , and his daughters who before had been in no employment receive each 10s , 12s or 15s … |
| 38 | Now how many of you here have been in situations where you 've been behind a pedal cyclist and you 've been tempted , I 'll not say you 've done it , but you 've been tempted to go past ? |
| 39 | One of the most farcical rivalries was that which existed for a time between two groups of prisoners who earlier had been in different Oflags . |
| 40 | We 're not talking about whole groups of pupils who previously have been in top streams , we 're talking about half a dozen , ten individuals in any one year group and they are equally as difficult to deal with in the streamed situation . |
| 41 | The school was aware of this and specifically created a post of responsibility for the brighter child and gave this to a senior member of the staff , and that member of the staff was responsible for looking at the effects of mixed ability teaching on specifically identified brighter pupils , and I do n't think the school would say that they totally solved the problem of what to do with the brighter child , but I think it 's a problem which exists even in streamed classes , because the sort of pupils we 're talking about are pupils who are exceptions in their own right — we 're not talking about whole groups of pupils who previously have been in top streams , we 're talking about half a dozen/ten individuals in any one year group and they are equally as difficult to deal with in a streamed situation . |
| 42 | Of their own volition , her hands tightened in his hair , forcing his head forwards , and she responded to his kiss with a passion she never knew was within her . |
| 43 | I see that the television game show that inspired letters to you recently has been at it again . |
| 44 | She too had been to Canonmills and Broughton school ( though she says she was " not very clever " ) and first of all went to work at a draper 's shop in the West End , a job for which she remained still nostalgic . |
| 45 | ‘ We rarely have been in a position where he has had the confidence to go for it , ’ said Gray . |
| 46 | It is true that as human beings we may be able to empathize with social work clients who are short of money or bereaved as we probably have been in these situations ourselves . |
| 47 | While force and the means of destruction are primarily physical realities , the path to their deployment in the manner we now fear is through the emotions and decisions of beings who are able to achieve a measure of control over their actions . |
| 48 | Some of the later remodelling work was done by Francesco Maria Richini , although what we now see is in Romanesque style , even though it post-dates the period by many years . |
| 49 | I 'm actually very dubious about this idea indeed because I , I do n't think that anybody actually likes being in a situation where they simply have to do what they 're told |
| 50 | Because during the course of our discussions today I 'll ask you to introduce me to others if , and only if , you think this meeting with me today has been of benefit to yourself , would that be okay ? |
| 51 | The worst thing they ever did was on the leader page , the last one they got rid of the Extended Titling on . |
| 52 | But yeah , I mean , there was so so many inconsistencies on , on the Irish witness side , you know , like what , what matey said I was , I was running out and all of a sudden I felt a pain from here on those fuck it , he 's up there , got big forearms , and big sort of muscle that size , that 's really wasted this side even after twenty years , it must of about and apparently one matey got shot in the back running away , oh no five out of the thirteen got shot in the back , which again does n't fucking mean any thing , you know that 's , but I said if there 's I R A supporters there and that , you telling me you seen where your comrades have fucking get shot , you 're not , you 're not gon na try and pick up his weapon and stuff I mean like , it was just a perfect opportunity to , to get one over on the British Forces and I , I said I do n't think yet the para 's were entirely blameless , but then again I do n't think they ever have been in any of their fucking |
| 53 | Because both ends of the Thornton Heath route on which they now worked were in congested streets , two trolley poles were fitted , one for each direction of travel . |
| 54 | I am ashamed to say that I have heard this said by social workers : ‘ all they really need is to be warm , comfortable and well fed ’ . |
| 55 | The point was made in relation to section 6 that goods can not perish if they never have been in existence . |
| 56 | However the girls took the dog upstairs where it wolfed all that was left of the lasagne and went to sleep in front of the hearth , quieter than it ever had been at the Castello Crocetto . |
| 57 | In his first schoolboy poetry the theme had been of love withered and decayed — practically the last lines he ever wrote were of " the certainty of love unchanging " . |
| 58 | Could he ever have been in love with her ? |
| 59 | Would he still have been in collusion with his master ? |
| 60 | ‘ He always has been in the past , so the Abwehr have found . |