Example sentences of "be [subord] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You need to know where they all are if you work for the Royal Mail , ’ Coltman says . |
| 2 | One way of making it more difficult for the Community Charge Registration Officers to trace people will be if they disappear from the electoral register . |
| 3 | Of course , there will be the process of introducing the council tax as there would be if we listened to the Labour party and introduced its tax . |
| 4 | I I I I 'm until you spoke to the collators department , they told you simply that they knew each other . |
| 5 | Tottenham 's dilemma was well chronicled last year , but one wonders how long it will be before they return to the same situation . |
| 6 | In the final game Waikato took the honours 28–24 , leafing Rugby Canada to wonder just how long it would be before they won for the first time on New Zealand soil . |
| 7 | At some point or other , though Jack has never discussed the possibility in public , he appears to have suspected that all might not be as it seemed in the Nicholson household . |
| 8 | Well , you do n't tell two old people that a year and a bit too late you 're out to find what the sticking power of their son will be when it comes to the choicer interrogation techniques of KGB . |
| 9 | Dexter noticed for the first time how thin his legs were as they wandered along the corridor . |
| 10 | ‘ Maybe we 'll find out what it is if he goes to the hospital with us , ’ said David thoughtfully . |
| 11 | If you 're not quite sure where Middle Pavement is if you think of the rear exit of the Broadmarsh Centre , the escalator exit , the escalator brings you out onto a road called Middle Pavement which slopes quite steeply downhill . |
| 12 | It is if you live in the village . |
| 13 | It is if you live in the village . |
| 14 | That 's cos you sit at the end . |
| 15 | No , the reason why is cos it clashes with the coursework . |
| 16 | You get the end of season and it 's if you look at the labels and go for the decent labels then you do n't get sort of , quite reasonable quality . |
| 17 | Because it 's like you say in the hallway . |
| 18 | Petty had already intimated that he might not be able to continue his attendance at the debates further ( after 29 October ) , but before the end of that day 's proceedings he explained why ‘ we [ the Levellers ] would exclude apprentices , or servants , or those that take alms , it is because they depend upon the will of other men and should be afraid to displease [ them ] ’ . |
| 19 | This is because he asked from the people a level of commitment that meant even in peacetime they were subjected to strict rule . |
| 20 | ‘ That is because you started in the wrong place . |
| 21 | But the only reason that it 's called The Dark Ark is because it travels in the shadow of Noah 's Ark . |
| 22 | But the only reason that it 's called The Dark Ark is because it travels in the shadow of Noah 's Ark . |
| 23 | The reason this one survived is because it travelled on the tour bus and not on the chartered plane , which crashed after take-off from Mason City airport in Iowa , while taking Holly , the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens to a gig in Moorhead , Minnesota . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's because we left by the back door . |
| 25 | why are people being spoke it 's because they know at the end of the day it 's what they 're bombarding all these things what we are |
| 26 | And I 'm sure it 's because they live in the Jungle not in cities . |
| 27 | ‘ That 's because he enters by the old tower door and sits at the back , where he ca n't be seen , ’ she replied eagerly . |
| 28 | It 's because I leant against the wall at the end of the corridor and watched them . |
| 29 | That 's because it soaks into the earth . |
| 30 | That 's before I went in the army . |