Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] be [adv] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ken wanted to rake David to this thing on his own and David , being very , very cold — he hates demonstrations of emotion — and me being very Mediterranean , I told him that as far as I was concerned , I did n't give a fuck about his award or seeing him receive it , but I thought it was a bit much that his mother could n't be there because it was a public occasion and it was a time when , without having to speak to her , he could be nice to her , as every mother loves to be there for that kind of thing . |
| 2 | You should be able to forgive yourself once you realise that you are not expected to be perfect ; indeed , if you were , you would not need to be here at all — your spirit would be continuing its learning process somewhere else . |
| 3 | The ring or the spade-end would need to be out of all proportion to the size of the hook . |
| 4 | Mike organized it , for me to go over there and then I did n't need to be there at all , cos noth nobody turned up . |
| 5 | Not only did the one-second pulses appear to be closer to each other , but the humps and dips of each of those pulses — they too were closer to each other . |
| 6 | Although more tension may be applied to the lower posterior wall of the reservoir than to the anterior wall during construction , one would expect to show greater differences in scores for these sites in relatively recently constructed reservoirs compared with those that had been in situ for several years , and the pathological changes would also be expected to be more like those of mucosal ischaemia . |
| 7 | If you want to be out on that pitch when the referee blows his whistle , you 'd better do it now . ’ |
| 8 | Nobody understood , either , how it had come to be there at all . |
| 9 | ‘ The forest plantation is quite young and the ditch was ploughed in 1987 , so the body has obviously come to be there after that . ’ |
| 10 | Among the guests the Mamounia while the Shah was settling in were Henry , Count of Paris , the pretender to the French crown , who was finishing his memoirs there ; the Reverend Ndabaningi Sithole , then a member of the coalition government of Rhodesia , but soon , like the Shah , to be swept away by revolution and Hassans friend , former King Simeon of Bulgaria , who was reported to be there on some business . |
| 11 | Quite simply , the peaks and troughs can be evened out by forecasting the number that can be permitted to be away in each grade at any given week which is a simple mathematical exercise . |
| 12 | got to go to the hospital , he 's going to see a friend that 's had operation and er so he wants to be out at half past six so |
| 13 | There 'd appear to be out of this office . |
| 14 | Hooker Phil Kearns , at only 24 , is undoubtedly going to be around for many years to come and successfully led the Australian under-21 team to victory over New Zealand under 21 's four years ago . |
| 15 | With the commitment the application and operating system developers are showing , DOS is going to be around for some time yet . |
| 16 | But a more likely way of achieving this basic necessity is to write something like " Only a person who knew that Aubrey St John was going to be here at this time could have killed him " . |
| 17 | Oh you 're not going to be here for this joke so I , I said oh got ta let him down . |
| 18 | We are going to be ahead of any market in Europe . ’ |
| 19 | Yes , but do you agree your houses are going to be somewhat above that ? |
| 20 | ‘ Looks like we 're going to be in for some pretty flamboyant fielding from the West Indies ’ |
| 21 | Is Franks going to be in on this ? ’ |
| 22 | But perhaps the greatest satisfaction is the knowledge that you have created something of the beauty that is going to be there for many years . |
| 23 | It appeared that we were going to be there for some time . |
| 24 | ‘ Our ’ health visitor was not going to be there after all because it was not her turn to do this session . |
| 25 | I must apologise for this stupid oversight which is doubtless my fault — a symptom of the pressure we seem to be constantly under these days . |
| 26 | Which must mean that he intends to be there for some time . |
| 27 | I would like to be here for that . ’ |
| 28 | I 'd like to be in on that . |
| 29 | I 'd like to be back in that time again … |
| 30 | I , I have n't actually got to be in at any time except I did say I 'd be in at half nine . |