Example sentences of "[be] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 You can ask them either just as they are or use them as a basis for formulating questions that are particularly related to the job for which you are being interviewed .
2 Where proceedings are commenced in the wrong court , the court can transfer the proceedings to the correct court , allow them to continue where they are or strike them out ( r 7.12 ) .
3 OVEX TM must not be taken by women who are or think they may be pregnant .
4 you are or think you may be pregnant
5 you are or think you may be pregnant
6 Whereas the earlier , Shklovskian view had been that form itself was a defamiliarizing agent , this subtler later development introduces a more dynamic and at the same time a more coherent notion of the literary work .
7 But this morning , I must say , I found it quite offensive and it may well have been the urge to demonstrate just how foolish his insinuation had been that caused me to set off up the footpath .
8 Been that has she ?
9 If you 're that advanced you have to pay for yourself .
10 But she could n't ever see me , though I think at first she knew I was around , so now I mostly stay where I am and amuse myself with some of the other kids who are here too .
11 I 'm warm and tired and the ground 's soft , so I just lie down where I am and shut my eyes .
12 Kelly 's been and had her hair dyed .
13 Eventually we worked out where the line had been and followed it for a short way up to a demolished bridge .
14 I mean , it 's like the jeans , I say , for Laura I paid fourteen ninety nine for a pair there , and eleven ninety nine for the other pair , well I 've been and got myself two pair cos I mean , it 's more or less all I wear just a , a couple of weeks before , and I 'd only paid twelve ninety nine a pair for my own !
15 She lunged forward at him , striking her talons on the bars where his face might have been and crashing her beak thunderously down .
16 I was filled with a dry sadness , a mixture of remembering and knowing ; remembering what was and what might have been and knowing it was all past ; at the same time knowing , or beginning to know , that other things were happily past — at least some of my illusions about myself , and then the syphilis , for there were no signs that it was going to come back .
17 They 've been on loo while they 've been and done them .
18 And Rital , whose east European eyes had seen been and done it all for more of a century than she chose to admit , merely shrugged and locked the door .
19 If this is how her work is to be read , then we are of course back with all the problems of the kairos approach : why has history been what it has been and given what history has been what may be said of God 's intention in relation to women ?
20 Perhaps he 's been and washed it off again .
21 As a child the continuous moves had taught Eva to leave behind the place they had been and give herself to the new .
22 This decision was immensely helpful to Jonathan Cape since it had been and remained their intention to publish the next two volumes of the Diaries and a further volume that related to Crossman 's earlier back-bench activities .
23 Thought been and picked hers up .
24 Under Rachel 's serene autocracy the firemen agreed that there was nothing much to be done now , that the house seemed safe enough but they should not use the attic until someone ‘ from the department ’ had been and inspected it the next day .
25 You been and thrown my catalogue out .
26 I bet I been and forgot what I come in here for now I 'm not really sure .
27 What good is an educational system which fools youngsters into thinking they are much cleverer than they really are and lets them loose on the working world ( not that there 's much work there ) with worthless qualifications ?
28 He said here are and tapping him over the nose
29 I 'm sure you are and thank you for being such a wonderful chairman .
30 ‘ Stay as you are and show me just the same ! ’
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