Example sentences of "[verb] be [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er I do n't think are pulling out but they , they 've suspended things , but I mean they just do n't know if they 're competing . |
| 2 | I see I 've been slipping up a bit . ’ |
| 3 | It 's just as well Paul did n't go with him , cos Paul would 've been singled out as well . |
| 4 | In the past it might 've been written off as artwank . |
| 5 | i i i in a sense it is a , it is a shift to the left because under the May the fourth directive erm rich peasants in particular would 've been left out of it altogether and there would still be some landlords who were , who would maintain their property but , but now he 's shifted to the left and this , this does represent a further attack on landlords cos , cos everybody comes down to the same level . |
| 6 | And as I say as I say I do n't ken how long it had been there but that see that likely about the same time as the as the mill was heightened and er the kiln would 've been putting on . |
| 7 | So Madam I 'm asking you to say that these circumstances , this is the sort of case that should never have come before the court , it should 've been sorted out between the parties themselves , with the aid of their solicitors , and that it 's only the overreaction of the police in this particular circumstance that brings him before the court here . |
| 8 | ‘ I see you 've been checking up on me . ’ |
| 9 | I just love the way that kid must 've been standing out there for what , fifteen minutes ? |
| 10 | You know without the women 's support group especially and without other support you know , we would 've been starved back to work . |
| 11 | The money , £108,000 , would 've been paid out from a mortgage protection policy Stroud and Mr Stokle had taken out when they bought a bungalow together . |
| 12 | ‘ Er weddin' dress 'ad been run up for 'er by Mrs Stuart that 'ad only just give up 'er job workin' for a dressmaker in Shoreditch . |
| 13 | But the characteristic of this puss forming organism is that the legions it produces are wooled off , that is they 're relatively localized . |
| 14 | Songs and styles of singing are handed down from mother to daughter , unchanged over centuries or even millennia . |
| 15 | Unusually for a city hotel , it is set around a lovely , lush private garden where sun-loungers are set out around the wonderfully secluded swimming pool . |
| 16 | Fourthly , in setting out the contract which may be oral or written , the activities to be undertaken are sorted out into individual tasks , and allocated between the worker and the client . |
| 17 | During sortal filtering , sorts are associated with variables by applying these constraints , any logical form structures containing a variable to which no consistent sort can be assigned are ruled out . |
| 18 | Learning , singing , and praying are rolled up into one : catechesis , as opposed to dialogue or concerned interest for religious matters . |
| 19 | Er , as far the these building are concerned I think your point is valid , I mean , I think probably printers , I think that you suggest are left on because you never know when it 'll be to . |
| 20 | Their challenge meeting away to Wolverhampton this evening has been rained off . |
| 21 | One well-known example would be the basic social security regulation , Regulation 1408/71 which , although still in force , has been amended over and over again . |
| 22 | The dining-room has been fitted up ( but she ‘ could n't for goodness gracious tell why ’ ) in the ‘ middle-aged style ’ , and the drawing-room , supposedly her province , has become a kind of . |
| 23 | The 700 sq ft shop , called Ottakars Children 's , has a range of around 4,000 titles , and has been fitted out with children 's play and adult seating areas . |
| 24 | The visit has not all been work orientated , however , as a visit to Loch Ness has been fitted in , together with sight-seeing visits to Dundee and Inverness . |
| 25 | While there is no official price , $400,000 is a ball-park figure that has been bandied about . |
| 26 | Despite the improvement from IBM 's personal computer business , overall profits were weak in the company 's hardware operations : the gross profit margin on hardware sales for the first quarter was a dismal 29% , compared with 48% a year ago ( a decline of 19% has been bandied about , but that came from someone that does n't understand percentages — it 's a fall of 19 percentage points or 39.6% ) ; the overall gross margin was 39.5% in the first quarter , down from 50.8% a year ago ; IBM 's tax rate was 25% in the first quarter , below the 45% rate IBM had indicated earlier ; IBM told analysts to continue to expect the 45% rate for the rest of this year . |
| 27 | Keegan is demanding nothing like the £4,000 a week figure that has been bandied about . |
| 28 | A recruitment committee is to be formed to provide jobs for players and Greville Edwards has been invited back as a commission-only commercial manager to revive the sponsorship and hospitality income . |
| 29 | It is an interesting thought that this whole design has been built up from a series of interlocking rectangles . |
| 30 | The picture has been built up from an analysis of 715 applications to join the group 's management buy-in programme . |