Example sentences of "be [verb] [conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Methinks I am to be your chaperon — which means , I suppose , that I am to see that you conduct yourself properly and are accompanied suitably whenever you leave these apartments . |
| 2 | This was the way Prince Charles had been reared and he wanted his boys to follow suit . |
| 3 | Indeed , Croats from western Hercegovina are insulted if you call them Bosnian . |
| 4 | The problems this has given rise to are compounded when one examines our import record . |
| 5 | You are blindfolded and you ask your audience to choose a day from each of the five weeks in the month on the calendar . |
| 6 | Now , the Israelites had been taught to welcome strangers and to look after them and Ruth 's fears must have been allayed as they receive her , there 's no cross examination , there 's no inquisition , she does n't go through any third degree , she is received back at face value . |
| 7 | ‘ Happy are those who are persecuted because they do what God requires ; the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to them ! ’ |
| 8 | I had the strong feeling of help having been given so I clasped my hands and said a prayer , half mentally , half vocally , of thanks to God . |
| 9 | ‘ I am honoured that you feel you can talk so freely in my presence , Chieh Hsia . ’ |
| 10 | Brownlow felt he 'd been rebuked and it irritated him . |
| 11 | PS : Things are not too good at home — your Mother is well , but the house has been repossessed after I lost my job . |
| 12 | I should have been consulted because it affected me too , she thought , and wrote a terse letter to him . |
| 13 | But we not regimented in this department we 're flexible that 's why these things are happening cos we turn our hands to whatever we believe is in the interests of the company . |
| 14 | On coach/air and coach touring holidays , all road tolls , ferry and port charges are included and on self-drive holidays , port charges are included when you book our special rate ferry tickets . |
| 15 | One local resident commented at the time , ‘ Possibly this area may have been picked because they think they might meet least resistance from a depopulated area ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ If you are bullied and you cry it makes things ten times worse . |
| 17 | They are discharged when they reach their target weight . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | However , when he is transferred to a strange yard with different handlers , even if it is a good establishment , his natural nervous temperament will reappear , explaining why so many new owners think their horse may have been drugged when they bought it . |
| 20 | I 'd better bring you up to date on what 's been happening since I saw you . ’ |
| 21 | Unless I mean this hedgehog could have been done if I left it could n't it ? |
| 22 | Not very many sub-conversions have yet been done as I understand it and my source of information about the levels of conversion is solely from Mrs , called on behalf of the defendants and her real source of information is simply one family whom she has talked to on the telephone about it , who find the levels conversion of their Nissan Serena perfectly satisfactory for their twenty year old daughter . |
| 23 | 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 ? |
| 24 | Everything in Jean-Claude 's life had been decided before he met me , and I was being fitted into a preordained pattern . |
| 25 | I am recommending that we take her to the hospital immediately . ’ |
| 26 | Nothing explicit had been said but she knew her relationship with Urquhart had crossed a new frontier : he had become an enemy . |
| 27 | Widely regarded as a principal rival and potential successor to Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhaven , Chaovalit had given little indication of his likely response to the Cabinet invitation which had been made after he announced his intention to retire early from the Army command [ see also p. 37188 ] . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It has been argued that they derived their name from that of Kenchester , which is identified as the Magnis of both the Antonine Itinerary and the Ravenna list , suggesting some tradition of local continuity , but there remain serious problems with this suggested derivation . |
| 30 | ESTATE agent Suzy Lamplugh has not been seen since she left her office on July 28 , 1986 , to keep an appointment with the mysterious Mr Kipper at a house . |