Example sentences of "be [adv] [conj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if you phoned me early in the year it must have been just after we got the V W. |
| 2 | ‘ You mean you were sitting where you are now and you told the glass to topple over and it did ? ’ |
| 3 | This will be so whether he takes the trouble to read them or not , and whether they are actually set out in a document in his possession , or ( subject to the question of the need to offer an oppportunity to inspect , which is discussed below ) merely incorporated into the contract by a reference in such a document . |
| 4 | It ca n't be long before they cross the Atlantic as the children of the 90s start replacing designer bodies with designer minds . |
| 5 | Dealing with the feelings you have , about not having the child you wanted , is not easy but your distress will be less if you approach the situation as a loving couple . |
| 6 | ‘ And so , after having a good , long talk about the problem with both Liz and Owen , Ross decided that it would be best if we brought the girls back here , to London , until their parents leave hospital . ’ |
| 7 | He merely sat on the only chair in my room , shook his head and told me to sleep , and that it would be best if we shared the same chamber that night . |
| 8 | It would be best if you saw the boy yourself . ’ |
| 9 | If your dog is somewhat possessive , it may be best if you leave the room while it is being examined . |
| 10 | The new rule is ‘ no player will be offside if he receives the ball directly from his own half of the field ’ . |
| 11 | Reading for our , I mean er , I supply my own car , my church has recognised that whether I 'm probably if I pay the tax and the insurance erm and I just thirty two , thirty five that 's but when I 'm in business or I 'm in provinces and I 'm allowed to pay what , ten fifteen |
| 12 | ‘ Perhaps we should encourage young novelists ’ ; ‘ the Booker Prize is a media junket ’ ; ‘ actually , I 'm here because I wrote the book ’ . |
| 13 | I 'm here because I drew the short straw when Jan Killeen was dishing out people to chair particular interest groups in preparation for this work , and I drew the job of chairing the group on private care issues . |
| 14 | Where plot might be jettisoned , story is retained as a principle of connection : ‘ Once the story is launched it must go on it must follow its course however crooked it may be even if it takes the wrong direction ’ ( 1976b ) . |
| 15 | ‘ We 're not at a checkpoint at the moment , ’ says Spill , ‘ but the P5 will be there before we reach the next one … and many people are waiting for the P5 before deciding whether to go to the R4000 . |
| 16 | They would not be there unless they shared the European ideal and believed themselves to be an integral part of the process of European unity . |
| 17 | but she were n't there so , whether and then I rang down Susan 's , I thought they might be there but nobody answered the phone , so I thought well |
| 18 | He would like to be there when they shot the bastard . |
| 19 | I want to be there when you find the others . ’ |
| 20 | You wanted to be there when he found the box , your arrival was nothing to do with Barbara Coleman going home . ’ |
| 21 | I think , I think that in any , I mean in , in , in , if you wan na , if you wan na look at it in terms I mean I think labour it it 's always gon na have to be there and I think the biological constraints put the you know , sharpened device |
| 22 | In cases where a covenant must be imposed to observe existing restrictions , on behalf of a buyer always insert in the covenant such words as " so far as the same affect the property hereby conveyed and are subsisting and capable of being enforced " , because for one reason or another the odds are ten to one that nobody can legally enforce them ; but the case might be otherwise if you impose the restrictions afresh . |
| 23 | The objectives are surely that we do the Liberal Democrats some real good , both nationally and in this area , in the longer term as well as for next June . |
| 24 | The men here are here because they broke the law . |
| 25 | He had been there since he left the Pit a year earlier and Tom had spent a week or so with him back in February . |
| 26 | Cecilia was about to let herself in when the young woman called Alice , who had been there when she heard the bomb go off , opened the door to her . |
| 27 | And yet she knew it had been there when she closed the book and put it back on the shelf . |
| 28 | It was lucky you were together when you found the bodies . |
| 29 | ‘ We are pretty certain Watson just mugged because they were there and he saw the chance of easy pickings without much danger of violence being offered back to him , ’ said a policeman . |
| 30 | but anyhow it , well they , they were there and he bought the pub did n't he and they were moving on the Saturday and he came on the Saturday morning and he cried take the furniture to pieces , some of the furniture , the wardrobes and there was a dining room table that they could n't get into the pub , could I dismantle them and re-assemble them again and that was the first time I 'd ever met him were n't I ? |