Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A picture as they say is worth a thousand words and so it was that on the afternoon unemployment broke through the three million barrier I chanced a glimpse of the private feelings of John Major . |
| 2 | ‘ Now I 'm going to concentrate on my music and give my career more focus being with a company that understands what I 'm doing . |
| 3 | LET is in a strong position . |
| 4 | B's remedy is against A alone . |
| 5 | Look 's like a drawing . |
| 6 | it look 's like a wedding to me |
| 7 | Fortunately for frail elderly people , there are many who offer altruistic neighbouring acts , that is to say , they are done without assumptions of reciprocity ; the gratification which they obtain is in a sense their own private business ! |
| 8 | The crèche I run is in a factory . |
| 9 | Cos append is like a path for data |
| 10 | I always thought I had a good appetite , but I remember being at a college feast once at Cambridge , where they had seven or eight courses and the elderly dons seemed to have less trouble than anyone else getting through it . |
| 11 | I remember being in a supermarket once and seeing a pregnant woman struggling with the door . |
| 12 | Why , I remember being in a stagecoach , with the Apaches attacking , and out on the road with Henry Fonda and the Okies and shooting Tyrone Power while he was hanging up a picture … ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I remember being in a mood once when he told me , ‘ You 'll go mad some day ’ . |
| 14 | he said in all that , we got two he said the other one cut itself badly this morning on er a piece of glass obvious he said managed to come back to me you know being on a lead all his leg was cut so he sort of been down to the vet and had two stitches |
| 15 | I like being in a war and I like being there because it 's a great adventure for me , but my duty is to be there for a reason , not just to have a bloody good time … |
| 16 | If what you hear is like a field |
| 17 | ‘ Well , now that you ask , ’ he said smoothly , ‘ the picture I get is of a group of young people with more money than sense , buying temporary pleasures because they have n't got a clue where to find enjoyment of the more permanent sort . ’ |
| 18 | The part I vividly remember was about a South Seas tramp steamer captain . |
| 19 | For example , all the competitors had to blow into what resembled a gas meter and the capacity of the lung was recorded , I failed to see the point of this exercise , and that , with other medical experiements , only fired my resolve to upset the doctors ' wager , which I believe was for a box of cigars . |
| 20 | If I got these two they are positional isomers because the carbon chain is the same and the only way they differ is in a position of a functional group . |
| 21 | Ooh I , I mean being in a right mess |
| 22 | ‘ You do n't come to these do 's without a partner . ’ |
| 23 | personally do is as a mo er er for my kids that I teach is they write their homework in the back of their exercise book so their homework diary is the back you know |
| 24 | and the curriculum statement , all the kids do is on a sheet put the number of the courses |
| 25 | Most of what local authorities do is in a sense not really party politically controversial because they 've got because most of the things they do they 've got to do , they 're mandated to do . |
| 26 | Right now the relationship 's good ; he 's like an old friend , we 've been through a lot of shit together . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I 've been through a lot of stuff because of it . |
| 28 | But it probably helped our friendship , because we 've been through a lot since then . |
| 29 | Geraldine had lost both her parents the year before , so we 've been through a lot of the same feelings . |
| 30 | " We 've been through a lot of danger , " he said . |