Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [be] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said to go shopping the next day in case I was being watched . |
| 2 | Of course I 'm being most unfair , but that 's a reader 's prerogative . |
| 3 | He sighed , intimating what a bore I was being . |
| 4 | Yet in other centuries I was being forced to omit , for sheer lack of space , figures of the highest cultural importance . |
| 5 | Ellie wondered to herself what new department she was being taken to now . |
| 6 | have a good tidy you are are n't you ? |
| 7 | Kate found it difficult to keep her colour from rising under the enthusiastic appreciation she was being subjected to , and , to try and break the dangerous spell , she broke into provocative speech . |
| 8 | They feel that as innocent parties they are being cheated . |
| 9 | In other words they are being totally unfair in that process and as a result of this more people are likely to suffer as a result of fire Council and savings which are clearly er is proposed er that is Conservative review that we should not be using new money or money within the environment budget which is better stretched for all the other services , to find that other fire fighters as much as we agree they are needed when clearly there is another pot of money which was available for this service and which the other two groups have decided they will take |
| 10 | It 's it 's not about being able to get rid of them totally and we agree that we need some sort of level of arousal it 's being able to perform despite them to use that arousal to put into an effective presentation , and that 's what this two days is about is getting those butterflies for you to fly in formation . |
| 11 | Prof He s is best known among the WACC membership in his capacity as General Secretary of the international ecumenical film organisation , Interfilm . |
| 12 | If PC Hawken had heard of Wycliffe 's reputation for amiability he was being disillusioned . |
| 13 | Reflecting the fact that on the left-hand side it is being added to the element 0 . |
| 14 | Soon after making The Public Enemy Cagney was to publicize his battle with Warner Bros over the roles he was being made to play and it became very evident that he was a shrewd and realistic businessman who perfectly understood his commercial and artistic value to the studios . |
| 15 | And the child you are is the joy of God , |
| 16 | The question you are being asked is , VISUAL CHOICE OF PALETTES . |
| 17 | The child we were is still inside us , crying |
| 18 | No wonder they are being abolished . |
| 19 | In those days cookery writers were n't just filling out their recipes with ingredients they were being paid to sell . |
| 20 | the bottom he was was lead by the old top one apparently more . |
| 21 | I had just time to think what a help he was being when another boot landed in my guts and I gasped for air . |
| 22 | a very small ship , a frigate , and er the captain was at most Lieutenant Commander and the Princess Royal was doing the re-dedication and because it was the winter it was being done inside a big shed , that 's the background . |
| 23 | It 's part of the rave scene it 's being sold as Ecstasy , but also as Special K or Vitamin K. |
| 24 | ‘ If the woman objects she is being hysterical and making a scene ’ ( 58/636 ) , an accusation that is demonstrated when Larissa and Armel quarrel about his extramarital sex life and he tells her to ‘ stop this hysterical rewriting of history ’ ( 76/654 ) . |
| 25 | Okay , right , erm it 's nearly time to go , but before we do , can I just give you some bits and pieces , you , you may well have copies of last year 's exam paper , but if you have n't , this is for development and integration of trade er , have a look at those sorts of essays you 're being asked to do . |
| 26 | So bit by bit you 're being written into the programme and fed into the computer . |
| 27 | This afternoon she was being cared for by police and relatives . |
| 28 | From a perspective in anthropology where social systems were all equally valid , I teased her about cultural police rigidities which caused this rejection of the alternative views she was being asked to examine , to the point where she refused to lunch with me in the Students ' Union , because , ‘ you 're one of those bloody communists I have to listen to ’ . |
| 29 | A drink was thrust into her hand and within five minutes she was being passed from group to group as though she were the prize exhibit ; asked numerous questions she did n't know how to or have time to answer ; told endless tales of this person or that person ; until eventually , somewhat bewildered , she ended up in the bar with someone called Patrick who began regaling her with tales of old Ireland . |
| 30 | Star and Garter I 'm being told from the right here , those sort of very special places we do n't provide them , we buy in from , from outside . |