Example sentences of "[verb] be [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if I 'd 've , if I 'd 've been up I 'd 've got it . |
| 2 | Mm I mean they are perishable if delayed are n't they ? |
| 3 | They 're awful things to paint are n't they ? |
| 4 | Yeah , we do n't have any huge , oh of course I 'm croqueting are n't I ? |
| 5 | Mind you I ca n't talk , I looked in the mirror a couple of weeks ago and my eyes are , I mean are really they 're having a rough time indeed |
| 6 | The images that we make are not themselves beautiful , they are only the cages in which we trap the living birds and butterflies of beauty . |
| 7 | Well they 're supposed to let you know are n't they if erm if you win ? |
| 8 | They 're being educated are n't they ? |
| 9 | I know I went down to see him , he 's got a really everybody 's dying are n't they ? |
| 10 | ‘ It is true that in the eighteen years she has been here I have never heard her speak . |
| 11 | ‘ Patrizia Valesio has been here she claims that … ’ |
| 12 | Erika has been away plenty of times , and if Fräulein Silber thinks that it is the right thing to do then it is the right thing . |
| 13 | Very good signing Phillips has been already he 's er played both sides of midfield filled in at centre back as well in recent matches . |
| 14 | That is how it has been in the past , we have never been friends , and perhaps it has been altogether my fault . |
| 15 | Although not infrequently recorded in the 19th century , when it was possibly a fairly regular winter visitor , only six were recorded between 1900 and 1929 , and there has been only one since , at Selsey Bill on 30 July 1961 . |
| 16 | Well there 's that I mean there 's all , there 's a whole range of things , there 's ghoulish voyeurism right , I mean that that 's important , there 's also the way the Royals have been peddled by the media over the decades and the fact that you know this has been how they 've been tendered this is what they actually are and that y you , you know what I 'm saying that erm or whatever it is between this is what they are , this is what we 've been and they do n't match , they really do n't match . |
| 17 | Since the war started , there has been hardly anything shown of Arab people , except , of course , massive anti-west demonstrations . |
| 18 | Silvester Horne , in his popular survey of nineteenth-century Nonconformity , admitted , ‘ The easiest accusation to sustain against Nonconformity has been hitherto its tendency to disintegration and division ’ . |
| 19 | In time to come are n't you more likely to say , ‘ Oh , yes — I 've seen a kiwi , but I ca n't remember where — or with whom ’ ? ’ |
| 20 | You 're nearly laughing are n't you ? |
| 21 | Windsfield straight into New Invention and every Wednesday night , first it was the cows that would come and then the sheep and they 'd got to walk to the abattoir at Bloxwich , and erm sometimes the cows were so heavy with milk that er a lot of people in New Invention had free milk and then if the , if the sheep would be here there and everywhere you know and then with mother living where there was an entry dividing four houses er and a well straight at the top , and a. a big old-fashioned er tap for the cold water , there were n't any taps laid in kitchen in er what are the outhouses it was a communal tap erm sometimes the sheep would get out of hand and they 'd run up the entry hall and all round mother 's yard and then the cows would go around , but er it , it to me I felt sorry about it , because especially in the summer er erm the poor things were so hot and to walk all those miles , now they 're carried are n't they and they used to every Wednesday every Wednesday of the year the drivers would er the men must have been absolutely tired out , well although they 'd be used to it would n't they , but it was miles to walk from Wolverhampton the cattle market to Blox straight to Bloxwich and er that was another event that erm it , we , it , we used to have . |
| 22 | No we 're not going in the car we 're walking are n't we ? |
| 23 | then the eyes would be something you 'd also confront at the beginning but they 're equally important for the fox actually walking are n't they ? |
| 24 | And I were laughing were n't I ? |
| 25 | I was shattered were n't we , but we |
| 26 | Well they were decorated were n't they , they were rings with and they had little tiny boxes , little coloured like little parcels sewn on . |
| 27 | Caught were n't you ? , you were caught ! |
| 28 | Well you were frozen were n't you waiting ? |
| 29 | No they were all cancelled were n't it ? |
| 30 | Yes , because we were on route for doggy walking were n't we ? |