Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [adv] [coord] " in BNC.
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1 | For the first time Stirling are well and truly embroiled in the relegation area and unless they can start scoring points they are going to continue to struggle . |
2 | It is of great significance that most of the NICs are presently or have been in recent times one-party states , not necessarily totalitarian in the classic sense , but certainly lacking in most of the genuinely pluralistic institutions that characterize advanced industrial societies . |
3 | In October 1987 , when his days at Arsenal were well and truly numbered , Nicholas flew to the French Riviera with Arsenal 's chief executive Ken Friar . |
4 | Arsenal were home and dry . |
5 | ‘ Have the children not been told ? ’ the nursemaid enquired of Aunt Rose once Victoria and Richard were ahead and out of ear-shot . |
6 | ‘ If you 've changed so much , then you should n't care in the least whether Eleanor 's here or not . |
7 | ‘ I 've a good mind to go down to Mrs Wright 's now and get to the bottom of this , ’ said his Dad as Philip went upstairs . |
8 | Gazza is slowly but surely learning the Italian language , making it work for him . |
9 | Rex is there and Woodbine is there . |
10 | ‘ I was told that Mr Morley was here and I just needed a brief word . ’ |
11 | er when Pearl , my other daughter came over Christmas , course Andrea was more or less still going through a bit of a rough period with between her grandfather and her , you know ? |
12 | And Lucy was blithely or otherwise ignoring that fact . |
13 | At the entrance to the Press tent I asked the security man if Toby was inside and he pointed him out in the middle of the usual muddle of desks and papers , with telephones ringing and cigarette smoke drifting , and expletives exploding . |
14 | ‘ But the night before last , when we were in the garden , you knew Didi was here and it did n't seem to bother you overmuch . ’ |
15 | A pattern emerged whereby shipping belonging to or destined for Kuwait was more or less assured of Iranian attention . |
16 | All went well until the dreadful day when Killigrew was away and a letter arrived for Mistress A. Killigrew . |
17 | Kieron Brady was the executinor … and Doncaster were home and dry … |
18 | In late October 1341 the king and Archbishop Stratford were solemnly and publicly reconciled , and a record of the occasion describes Derby as ‘ mediator in the settlement ’ . |
19 | Ireland 's once and future King … |
20 | Nurse del Puablo is widely and justly celebrated for her skilled hands , hot thighs and soft lips , her pretty belly , bad ass and good tits . |
21 | Well if there is the south coast along here and Devo C Cornwall is there and Devon is here and you get the w the Bristol Channel going up here and then you c the coast coming down here and there 's Wales is here right ? |
22 | To account for this , we would need first of all to explain how the form how about VERBing is more or less restricted to usages in suggestions ( again , this looks like a linguistic form that has pragmatic rather than semantic content , a problem discussed in Chapter 5 ) . |
23 | J.B. Because Father Curtis was there and I thought you know he wo n't want some married woman who goes round not wearing a wedding ring in charge of all these kids will he ? |
24 | Now ten years old , Ellie was more or less expected to run the house day by day . |
25 | And she 'd be sitting on the edge of her chair with a smile stitched to her face as she willed the rest of the party to get a move-on so she could go and make sure Camille was home and safe . |
26 | DeFries was in the Christian Dior suite , Marc Bolan was in the Marc Bolan suite , David was in the next one , Jagger was there and all the Stones , and every night was party night . |
27 | She said : ‘ The Tates were there and they sent a big wreath ; we ought to have invited them back with us . ’ |
28 | She said it was br it was , I did n't think it was but it wa it was really good fun and also I was going out with Carl at the time and so , you know , in our big like little group big little group , our big group , that was a bit of a erm contradiction , erm in our big group and erm we knew masses of people and there were lots of there and there were lots of Felixstowe people there and it was just a really good laugh and erm Right Said Fred were there and some other sort of ravey group , ca n't remember what now and then , no some techno group , and then erm so we all thought oh let's go for this , let's go , la this time last year we thought oh well let's go over to this one for a joke , you know , for old time 's sake let's just go along and have a joke and we went and it was full of erm like they were all about fourteen , I suppose when we went we were all fourteen too but last year well most of my friends are sort of you know sixteen erm we went and it was n't , it was n't , it was n't full at all and the place is huge and it says , it says on the thing , you know , two thousand people go and there must have been about four hundred at the most and it was really , and I , also I ha I was ill that day and it was really shit so if they said it was brilliant last year it probably was n't the stockings because it was , nobody I met said it was , and also yeah the stockings and the feathers were put on the same day and there 's competition between the two companies does stocking and I 've forgotten what feathers is , there 's competition and so lots of people went to the feathers instead and the feathers had like too many people and the stockings had too lit too few . |
29 | it was taken last July fortnight because Jackie and Tom were away and that |
30 | Greyson Thomson back to the fullback again and he wins it back off Chettle but Cooper 's there and that was a foul by Whitlow in the back of Rozario . |