Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [pron] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In n it taking a time ? |
| 2 | At the moment the EMG pickups on the Petersen have a good clean sound , if a little clanky on the top end , but my ideal would be where you had a bass with a thousand different possibilities and you could just slot them in in two seconds flat ! |
| 3 | ‘ Are n't you taking a risk , though ? |
| 4 | Why are n't you using a spoon ? ! |
| 5 | ‘ Are n't you forgetting a couple of things ? |
| 6 | Are n't you missing a chance ? ’ |
| 7 | " Are n't you making a mistake , my lord ? " asked the farmer . |
| 8 | Are n't you having a bun of mummy 's now ? |
| 9 | Sissinghurst or is it I know I 've been there I took a photograph of my son outside there holding the doors . |
| 10 | I said I did n't know , and thought no more of it and it was n't until David returned and was performing at the Arts Lab on the Sunday night that I remembered and said to David , ‘ Oh , by the way , while you were away I had a message — your father is not very well ’ . |
| 11 | When the strikes were over he established a Standing Committee on Industrial Relations to produce suggestions for improving the collective-bargaining system and for curbing wildcat strikes . |
| 12 | ‘ When you were here you mentioned a collection of letters written by Martin Beale to his mother which came into your mother 's possession later . |
| 13 | While you were there you had a ball , and then life goes on . |
| 14 | No it 's just they need a teacher . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , I daresay it 's just me flying a kite , but the fact is Everett was too bloody inquisitive for his own good . |
| 16 | no she 's not I have a picture of her somewhere , she 's nice him , his , there , there she is |
| 17 | ‘ A lack of cash planning is usually what takes a business down . ’ |
| 18 | Procter & Gamble and Shell in particular , together with several other giant organisations like IBM and Unilever , have their own completely adequate recruiting and training resources , and what is more they follow a policy which actually discriminates against outsiders . |
| 19 | We had , that 's like we had a letter the other day we had to sign for Jonathan . |
| 20 | It is also what makes a book like this so welcome . |
| 21 | erm so the fact that now peasants are running their own associations is n't you know a riff-raff , obviously the peasants in your , your point of view |
| 22 | ‘ Is n't he taking a bit of a risk coming to Germany ? |
| 23 | ‘ I told him , why is n't he making a film about what 's going on in Northern Ireland . |
| 24 | Oh yeah yeah I would imagine so but I w er maybe it 's maybe you become a member if you go to a few of their and they get to know your faces or something and then you apply but I do n't really know . |
| 25 | This is how we pole a raft and just because a white man is watching through his funny machine we are n't going to do it any differently . |
| 26 | That is how I make a living , ’ he says . |
| 27 | ‘ That ’ , says Wilcock , ‘ is how I learned a lot about life and a Sophoclean scene where people were learning . ’ |
| 28 | That 's how they got a man on the moon ! |
| 29 | Mr Kennedy says : ‘ If that 's how they treat a witness , I dread to imagine how they treat a suspect . ’ |
| 30 | But I thought if that 's how they run a business So then when they , they moved house I realized they were using an ordinary saucepan to do their chips in and I had visions of fat boiling over and cos it 's gas so I bought them one a very nice deep fryer as a housewarming present . |