Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McCrea sums up the Western code by his declaration that all his wants is to ‘ enter my house justified ’ while Scott is more easy-going and hence survives to mourn his partner in a world where a Westerner is more likely to be an unshaven brute played by Warren Oates than a white-hatted , true-hearted paladin . |
| 2 | To cross the Atlantic in the early Fifties from the modest hopes of Britain to the United , Euphoric , You-name-it-they-had-it States was to court vertigo . |
| 3 | ‘ Everyone calls 'im Sergeant Joe , 'e 's been in the Army , yer see . ’ |
| 4 | Essentially , what she wants is for Berowne to discover what is serious in life , and to stop fooling all the time . |
| 5 | And if any of his fans still needed convincing , they had only to look into the happy , laughing face of his adoring wife Jean , at his side as she has been since his horrific car accident nearly three months ago . |
| 6 | For the present , then , the vital need is to do everything possible to secure a safe retirement of XH558 , where she will be cared for as well as she has been since becoming the VDF display aircraft . |
| 7 | She has been through a marriage , a divorce , and a serious love affair ; learnt Russian , written regularly for a local paper and taught a young child disabled by a stroke to read again . |
| 8 | She has been through it all with such tremendous courage and coolness . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ She has been through an awful lot , ’ says Ann . |
| 10 | A spokeswoman there said last night : ‘ She has been through a terrible ordeal . |
| 11 | She is the same wholehearted trouper she has been through war and peace for three generations . |
| 12 | This book is for Ear'ole , who has been as enthusiastic about my shop as she has been about all the other things that I have tackled , and then begged her to help with . |
| 13 | The lady is looking for a husband and she has been about the world sufficiently to know that I am not one of those . |
| 14 | She has been to school . ’ |
| 15 | In her heart she thought : Kind as she has been to me , and much as I respect her , your wife , my lord , is the last lady living to whom I am likely to apply . |
| 16 | She tells me she has been to every temple on the Greek islands of Mykonos and Santorini . |
| 17 | As Elisabeth , Rosalind Plowright sounded more secure than she has been for some time on British stages and sang her last aria with true Verdian pathos and passion . |
| 18 | She will stay with the man at whose side she has been for years , Secretary of State James Baker . |
| 19 | She then moved to Bristol City Council where she has been for some months . |
| 20 | In July 1944 Attlee presented a paper on ‘ Foreign Policy and the Flying Bomb ’ , which pointed out that it would henceforth be impossible for Britain to rely upon the English Channel as a defence against her enemies : From our point of view , Norway , Denmark , Holland and France are necessary outposts of Britain and , in as much as Britain is now as she has been for a hundred years a shield for the U.S. , outposts of America as well . |
| 21 | She has been for weeks . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Do you mean to say that Mrs Ross 's daughter never left you and her children ? — that she has been with you all the time and is still your wife ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ She has been with the Yorks for four years and has become very attached to the children . |
| 24 | She has been with Peter Cottingham , 44 , for five years . |
| 25 | She has been with Harlequin for 12 years , in the UK direct marketing division for six years , and latterly in charge of direct marketing in Australia . |
| 26 | ‘ But she has been with me since Seville and you just ca n't sweep the last year away and forget it , ’ he told her earnestly . |
| 27 | She has been with us since 1988 and has played a significant role in the development of CCG 's in-house marketing strategies . |
| 28 | In twenty-four hours she has been on a whistle-stop tour of three countries . |
| 29 | She has been on holiday in Dorset ( with a friend who lives there ) , and in Shropshire and in Kent . |
| 30 | Apart from a year at Westfield College she has been on the staff of the Department of French at Reading University since 1962 , progressing from Tutorial Assistant to a personal chair as Professor of French . |