Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Afshan Begum explains in her thesis ‘ In many cases parents expect that the girl will , whenever they demand , give up everything ( e.g. a course in further education or training or a career ) and submit without question to a marriage they have arranged for her … these hidden cases which no one gets to hear about are the real tragedies . ’ |
| 2 | What you 're aiming for are the receding depths of the river concealing its greater mysteries , while your fish flirt unawares in the foreground … |
| 3 | Some good ones to look out for are the 1940's style Retro Dryer from Clairol , £24.95 . |
| 4 | What we are looking for are the exceptional unsung heroes and heroines in other walks of life . ’ |
| 5 | But because they have to leave by 10pm , all they have time for are the basic tasks , such as cooking dinner , feeding Elaine , taking off her make-up and getting her ready for bed . |
| 6 | After being a highly-prized mistress she was now little better than a common prostitute , and her owners were now interested only in squeezing the last drops of revenue from her tired body . |
| 7 | Your stepson has to get used to a whole new family , which is a big shock for him after being an only child . |
| 8 | is a filter function representing smearing due to a finite beam size , and is the conformal time , where a(t) is the cosmological scale factor . |
| 9 | What she had been after was a specified date and time . |
| 10 | What we are slowly making our way towards are the pictorial consequences of Rosenberg 's nothingness and the fatality . |
| 11 | when I went down there , there must of been a winding me up but the only problem was that er , it was all into er one thirty but er but I mean after you went out I took Thomas out on the road |
| 12 | it must of been a long |
| 13 | He had some stuff nicked , a ski jacket which cost me seventy five quid it were half , the rest it should of been a hundred and fifty |
| 14 | Mm , that 's marvellous , so it should of been a hundred and forty five . |
| 15 | Oh I yeah , he got this , this er must of been a good metal detector you know |
| 16 | Erm , dum , dum , the market stall as you know , we did n't have it in the market , we had it on the thank goodness because we parked it in the shade , erm during that period we got five hundred and thirty two signatures , with three or four more of you it could of been a thousand , erm we also got fourteen pounds , seventeen in donations , all completely unasked for cos as you know , we do n't take money . |
| 17 | there must of been a thousand thousands sold of this , done I should think |
| 18 | you know , and erm , our Kim , er , she , she goes to bloody extreme then , she 's picked a wardrobe , one wardrobe and a set of drawers , should of been a thousand pound and that bloke at Aston where she got her bed from , which she paid twelve hundred pound just for a bedhead |
| 19 | Romeo and Juliet I mean it could n't of been a better thing for school children |
| 20 | Which I mean for er for a hospital taking people on like that , I mean erm I would of said i it would would of been a better proposition to have somebody who 's at least experienced . |
| 21 | Oh yeah , could n't of been a better end ! |
| 22 | Oh I can , I can understand what must be going through her mind , it must still of been a terrible time . |
| 23 | I suppose I can understand it now , I mean it must of been a lovely place , and then to have all these new houses going up you know , but erm , I mean there was some lovely , lovely lanes |
| 24 | You would of got two cos you would of been a big one wo n't you ? |
| 25 | Yeah it must of been a few they 'd got through |
| 26 | I , I , I was lucky in the three ground I went too the worst that ever happened to me was I was put head first into a dustbin , but luckily it had been emptied it was still well mucky , but I just fucking went and had a shower , and I come out of the shower and I 'd got pounced upon again and I was there , it must of been a funny site , there 's me right in just a pair of fucking deck chairs that we used to wear for the , the shower block right , fucking shaving , er like the wash kit bag in my right hand and I was holding me fucking towel round , round me waist with me left , I was streaking across the play ground , going as fast as I could |
| 27 | Oh , dear he 's been dead , ten it must of been the ten , this is eighty two , seventy two , about sixty five I should think about sixty five |
| 28 | I think that must of been the old boy over the road you know |
| 29 | Cor I should n't of been there I think I should of been the next one along |
| 30 | No they were , that 's what they were were n't it when it all happened , the old Revered somebody or other , they wilful murder but erm yeah basically it does n't seem like , there was no real evidence as to who erm fired first and there was no conclusion that the about that , but they were certainly I R A gunmen , para 's , its like without a doubt if you know some people , but like with those high powered weapons they may , alright its unfortunately that somebody may have got shot , but it may not of been the main shot , that may , may of been a ricochet or , or anything like that , both their they 've got a killing range of up to three mile so one mate come round , he says he 's gon na come round again tomorrow and have a look at it |