Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But some of them they do put on I do n't think are worth putting on at all ! |
| 2 | But then I , I , it 's unfortunate that you had your first I mean someone who had no experience of headmastership , head , head teachers , I mean all the head teachers I should think are in financial problems this year cos it 's really there first full year |
| 3 | Organizing , managing and administering are about controlling and co-ordinating the diverse contributions needed for the attainment of some collective goal . |
| 4 | ‘ The last two groups to perform are from Donegal and Leitrim . |
| 5 | ’ Anybody could 've gone outside and pulled a plug out of the wall and the show would 've been off the air A lot of people probably wish they had . ’ |
| 6 | You ca n't imagine how much of a help you 've been to me . |
| 7 | I see you 've been to the hospital , or something like that . |
| 8 | Er right I need somebody out there who has n't done this before erm let's see we 've been to Ripon , been to Thirsk , erm been over to Scarborough with Dr Rock , North Allerton no I do n't like North Allerton well I mean I love North Allerton no no I want to go south I want to go Tadcaster way have we anybody down there ? |
| 9 | I thought it might 've been to a Royal Garden Party |
| 10 | erm , you know , with preparation beforehand I would normally have , have realized that , and anything else would 've been on top of it . |
| 11 | Oh that 's not so bad you see I 've been on holiday all last week |
| 12 | ‘ It should 've been with the batch of papers given . |
| 13 | There must 've been with erm in forty seven was it the encirclement campaign where they allowed the nationalists to sort of drive through the , I do n't know the defences , they must 've been fairly certain of their support in certain areas by then . |
| 14 | Think I should 've been with you . |
| 15 | I told him it must 've been about the Royal Garden Party . |
| 16 | Jackson must 've been under the effects of the anaesthetic after a nose job to come out with something so bad . |
| 17 | That would 've been down hill . |
| 18 | Stopping would 've been like looking away from a hypnotist 's swinging silver watch . |
| 19 | I begin to get some idea of what the Roman games must 've been like . ’ |
| 20 | Carlo and McGowan stood on either side of the embalmer , he might 've been in custody . |
| 21 | Reason they 're mixed up he , he must 've been in there messing about with them . |
| 22 | So if that was Jim cos Jim would 've been in his he has n't laid |
| 23 | I think Americans and Russians find it strange that we are 100% funded by government and over 50% of the cases we bring are against government departments . |
| 24 | The instructions provide a generative programme , the folding and unfolding are like the contractions and changes in contact in cell sheets in the embryo . |
| 25 | The advantage of this argument is that it allows one to define literature 's relation to reality in a much more positive and coherent way : both literature and the reality which it represents are of the same order and , according to Bakhtin , this order is ideological . |
| 26 | But new questions about the relations of language and what language represents are of great importance to our understanding of Renaissance culture . |
| 27 | Nearly half of those registered are in the jobs market for the first time . |
| 28 | The first items that I wish to acknowledge are from Mr Norman Wheeler of Stokesay . |
| 29 | The seller should of course resist such warranties because of their vagueness , and insist that , if he is to give such a warranty , the purpose should be clearly specified in the contract , with sufficient detail to enable him to be sure that the goods that he supplies are in fact suitable for that purpose . |
| 30 | Devises are of two kinds only , specific and residuary . |