Example sentences of "[be] [verb] and [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the way Prince Charles had been reared and he wanted his boys to follow suit . |
| 2 | You are blindfolded and you ask your audience to choose a day from each of the five weeks in the month on the calendar . |
| 3 | Brownlow felt he 'd been rebuked and it irritated him . |
| 4 | ‘ If you are bullied and you cry it makes things ten times worse . |
| 5 | For example if the business primarily sells paperclips does it include the design , manufacture , packing and sale of the paperclips or is it simply a sales outlet ? ( 2 ) Second , understand what assets the vendor uses in order to conduct the business being sold , where these assets are located and who owns them . |
| 6 | They said well your husband 's car 's been vandalised and they think it 's you that 's done it so we 've come to arrest you so she said oh I thought you 've come to tell me it were me daughter that was dead and he said , he said what you talking about ? |
| 7 | However , Gerry Collins , the Irish minister for foreign affairs , later made it clear that progress had been made and he reaffirmed his Government 's commitment to the Anglo-Irish agreement . |
| 8 | Vast amounts of money are made and I find it all very boring . |
| 9 | you can write down these words , that would then be given you a clue things that you could be saying to your customers , where , right , if you start thinking about the job that you 're doing and I give you the word where , right you think of the number of times you can use the word where , with a customer , right |
| 10 | And I think when we talk in terms in getting around to spending the money we have got then we need to look quite clearly about how you make a place more inviting and it 's also about when people come into the building how they 're met what the receptionists like , when they ring up can they get through and I mean I 'm I 'm surprised that 's said about the tickets that I think that our reception ticket areas an excellent area the people working there are first class are very friendly very helpful so it 's trying to get that sort of concept through the building I thin k we work on that I think the building 's kept very clean people who clean the building are very good but I hear what you 're saying and I thinks it 's been said earlier by the lady here by the foyer downstairs she feels threatened when she goes into that bar because I think the whole decor and the way it is is a threatening place I think we need to look at those so that was an old and . |
| 11 | I know what you 're saying and I think you 've taken leave of your senses . |
| 12 | I said , you 're joking and I said they sell the house to you |
| 13 | Erm no I I honestly do n't think that er that the the problem is as big as as big as you you say it is and I I think the the structures are there to deal with that and if if people had you know if people used them then they would they would work and they from time to time that they are used and you know it it is not impossible to get rid of rid of a teacher in in the way you are suggesting . |
| 14 | It was not his plan , but he 'd been outmanoeuvred and he knew it . |
| 15 | It is , however , also commonly used in an opposite sense , as in the consumer movement 's version of consumerism , to denote suspicion of consumer goods , a wish to know more about how they are produced and who produces them . |
| 16 | We 've got to consider the situation of some form of flexibility and it presupposes that if you have a policy in which the settlements are drawn and I suppose I I think they will be tightly drawn , development yes is allocated in accordance with the structure plan . |
| 17 | Let someone know where you are going and what time you expect to be back and do n't forget to let them know when you are back . |
| 18 | Seneca wrote that ‘ when we want to reach a city or marketplace , we watch where the people are going and we follow them ; but in life we should watch where they go and then we should go in the opposite direction . ’ |
| 19 | Quite where the jobs are going and who does what at this stage I 'm not sure now we 're UNISON . |
| 20 | I am doing that more and more now when I am stretched and I think I am improving in that area . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ At parties , if people ask what you 've been doing and you tell them that you 've just been around the world , it stops the conversationd ead . ’ |
| 22 | The cous cousins Margaret and Joan have been found and I told you we found Tony while we were still on with Malcolm who was looking for him . |
| 23 | The band are intelligent boys , they know what they are doing and we let them get on with it . |
| 24 | Other interested parties hvae been notified and I await their replies . |
| 25 | She 's been crying and I sent her home . |
| 26 | The other actions are continuing and I hope they get tidied up very quickly . ’ |
| 27 | It brought a smile to his face because he recognised the lie though no word had been spoken and he trailed his lips across her burning cheek before catching her mouth lightly with his own . |
| 28 | If the big winds are blowing and you bribe them right , our staff may prolong safety cover to allow those who can competently carve gybe and water start to continue sailing . |
| 29 | " Gemma dear , he has a right to be considered and I believe he is a fresh-air man — the Gages and the Bartram-Hyndes have all been brought up to that . |
| 30 | I asked him how he would prefer to be addressed and he said you can call him what you please , as long as it is polite . |