Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] be [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of the Saturday debate we were in more disarray than at any stage since either coming to power or Margaret Thatcher taking over the leadership . |
| 2 | I expect it 's in this pile somewhere . |
| 3 | A real heavy duty place it was in those days |
| 4 | ‘ Looking at it now , I realise it was from this point that Diana began putting herself behind Relate and Aids charities . |
| 5 | The Ayatollah Khomeini may have died , the demonstrations may have dwindled , the book which precipitated the whole bizarre nightmare may no longer be burned in scenes of spine-chilling ugliness , but let no-one be in any doubt : Iran still wants Salman Rushdie dead . |
| 6 | I just hope she 's in this time . ’ |
| 7 | Says Bob , ‘ It 's amazing how much co-operation and support there is between these growers . ’ |
| 8 | Whatever you do at least be sure to make it stupendously high ; let it be of all columns in the world the most lofty . ’ |
| 9 | But I mean she 's in that room . |
| 10 | Read what 's on this afternoon . |
| 11 | Mr President brothers , sisters , and friends I know I 'm amongst many friends here . |
| 12 | You know who was on that story ? |
| 13 | Er centenary seems and I know we are round this table |
| 14 | Erm and clearly you know they are of some use . |
| 15 | Me ai n't know what was in that glance , but we moved in behind the police . |
| 16 | As an Anglo-Scot , with a Scottish father and an English mother , I suppose I 'm in both camps . |
| 17 | Eric , who was going through a religious phase at the time which I suppose I was to some extent copying , thought this was a terrible thing to say ; God was n't like that . |
| 18 | Now Sammy was a character in himself he was a bachelor and his wi his sister was Fanny the elocutionist er and , and er there the women used to , to go into old Sammy 's shop on a Friday night simply to be entertained by all the wisecracks and nonsense that used to go on in there , and somebody would say I suppose you 're off this weekend and he 'd say yes I 'm off to my little widow in Wales , he had n't got a little widow in Wales at all now but it would the start of the conversation going . |
| 19 | This contact may be by post , by telephone or by personal meetings ; the choice will depend very much on how important you are to a magazine and the magazine to you and thus how often you are likely to be working with this particular publication , how physically near you are to each other and indeed how well you get on at a social level . |
| 20 | I 'm not sure you could take a tabloid in this direction I 'm about to propose that would also appeal to some popular customers , but it 's like , last night everyone was reminiscing about Type ninety and the high points and one of the things that came out in conversation was that there was enormous amount of sex going on which I suppose there is at all conferences , you know , but this one seemed to be , you know , the randiest conference in recent memory . |
| 21 | Ltd. v. B.O.A.C. [ 1955 ] A.C. 169 , 191 , Lord Reid stated that if the arguments are fairly evenly balanced ( not that I believe they are in this case ) , that interpretation should be chosen which involves the least alteration of the existing law . |
| 22 | I suppose it is like those astrology charts that appear in the newspaper . |
| 23 | I did my best , but I suppose it was during that time that I began to drink too much and that finished off my promotion chances . |
| 24 | I suppose it was around this period that our Investigation Department began to involve the cutters in some of their more interesting operations . |
| 25 | Ever since then , China in its many and varied aspects has been in my mind , and I believe it was on that Saturday morning in Aunt Janie 's potato patch that I first became interested in the Orient . |
| 26 | I believe it was on this ride that I sensed something I had not felt since the time I took my French classes in London : a sort of exhilarating separateness . |
| 27 | Well my Lord the issue is that the defendants deny they were under any duty to offer any advice about financial . |
| 28 | I bet she was at that price . |
| 29 | For past all doubt he was on that path , he did find the poor soul dead , he did run to the castle , like an honest man , and tell the sheriff what he had found . |
| 30 | , six days a week , I mean it 's like this year I mean he 's going to be working , I 'm working as well right up to Christmas Eve , so are you , his gon na have the Christmas Day and they want him back at work on the Boxing Night . |