Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] be [verb] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I happen to have half a dozen , and there is one , just one , that I am allowing you the privilege of riding , because I think you are capable of coping with it . |
| 2 | ‘ Bowe has always said that I am the man he wants more than anybody and now that I am giving him the perfect opportunity , he is shying away from it . |
| 3 | Well on , I do it the right way , because I do n't always feel that I am doing it the right way . |
| 4 | ‘ Do you have any reason whatsoever to doubt that I 'm telling you the truth — other than the fact that I 'm a singer ? |
| 5 | Hoping against hope that she was giving him the come-on at last , he readily accepted . |
| 6 | Check it somewhere that you 're writing it the right way |
| 7 | Well plus plus the fact that erm it 's not that you have n't got one , or it 's not that we 'd need you to drive it 's that you 're denying us the privilege of being able to send you . |
| 8 | It 's nice to know that you 're giving me the benefit of the doubt . ’ |
| 9 | What 's the doubt that you 're giving him the benefit of ? |
| 10 | And your answers should be couched in the terms that you would answer somebody in the pub , in that you 're giving them the information , you 're giving it to them in a clean way . |
| 11 | er to make sure that we 're giving you the right platform to earn money to keep all of your er aspects going . |
| 12 | All Home Risks policies set out the cover for BUILDINGS , whether or not this cover is currently in force , so we are sending you the new wording , which you should keep with your policy . |
| 13 | Yeah , if they 're delayed getting on the motorway and see that they 're doing it the other side coming off , they might be saying |
| 14 | The accomplishment is to make sure that it is telling you the truth . ’ |
| 15 | In his covering letter he mentioned yet another title and gave the Wagnerian aspect an unexpected prominence : " I have written a pamphlet … which is to have the title " Music and Tragedy " , and I am sending you the beginning of it in manuscript . |
| 16 | ‘ And I 'm offering you the job as manager at a pound a week more than your present salary . ’ |
| 17 | Well , it 's funny , I was telling Stephen , my boyfriend , about that , and I was telling him the question and he said |
| 18 | ‘ But I 'll need some support if I am to give him the service he wants . |
| 19 | I have reason to believe that if I were to ask you the time you would n't be able to accommodate me . |
| 20 | I mean , I think if someone is showing you the rainforest and he does n't stop every ten yards to show you something , then that 's not a good guide . |
| 21 | And you were telling me the other clubs men men had |
| 22 | When Edward Thomas entered the History Eighth at St. Paul 's in January 1894 , he was at least seventeen months younger than the seven pupils who had joined the class in the previous July or September and who were to leave it the following June . |
| 23 | She 's got that unappetizing little Yank in tow , and she 's feeding him the Authorized Version . |
| 24 | and she were telling me the guy that runs it wo n't let them talk to the customers , said that was pig ignorant surely |
| 25 | I have a servant who helps me but always I wonder if she is telling me the truth or merely being kind . ’ |
| 26 | But how would he react if she were to tell him the truth ? she wondered distantly . |
| 27 | You have nothing — nothing ! — to fear if you 're telling me the truth . |
| 28 | you this turtle as an incentive cos you 're giving him the turtle anyway but he wo n't know that unless his mum 's told him . |
| 29 | Manager Bryan Hamilton , who offered the 21-year-old Londoner the opportunity , said : ‘ He is looking for a change of direction while his athletics career is on hold and we are giving him the chance to prove his worth as a footballer . ’ |
| 30 | We 're hoping and I 'm crossing my fingers here , that we 'll get in excess of five thousand people there and the interesting thing is we 've got a commercial exhibition at it , to give it a flavour of Scotland where people will show all the good things made in Scotland and we 're calling it the taste and touch of Scotland and hopefully that will offset the cost of all the other , other er stalls and things that we 're holding . |