Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] be [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got to hear of several healers , but there was one in particular towards whom I was subtly steered . |
| 2 | In my spare time I saw a lot of John Keay , an Agriculture graduate of the U. of Saskatchewan and a good friend , as well as Jerry Harwood and Quincey Moffat with whom I was closely associated in organizing the annual Boys ' Parliament elections . |
| 3 | I 'm just … well , I meet someone like you with whom I feel instant affinity , to whom I 'm instantly attracted and … |
| 4 | Without such pressure even my execution at the hands of the Khad was a possibility … your efforts and support greatly encouraged me and my family , for when I came to know of them I was indeed strengthened by them . ’ |
| 5 | When I tried asking the girls I interviewed about them I was often met with a shrug , or a short ‘ no problem ’ reply , as if periods were nothing at all , of no significance , and certainly none to a book on looks , fashion and body-image . |
| 6 | and I I 'm just bothered about |
| 7 | But I I was always taught , probably like yourself that you must look through that , turn round and look through that rear |
| 8 | You may be one of those people who is easily swayed by a superficially attractive candidate with a strong personality , or you may be someone who is most influenced by the person you last spoke to . |
| 9 | Their handicap is like any other permanent disability , such as someone who is physically handicapped through the loss of a limb . |
| 10 | It takes little thought to see that someone who is physically crippled and confined to a wheelchair may still lead a very full life if his mental and higher faculties are in good order whereas a physically fit but totally demented person has little left to give and little capacity to receive except for physical care and a little love . |
| 11 | You are looking for someone who is ideally suited to the vacancy and who will be happy to stay . |
| 12 | This kind of work can be achieved with someone who is mentally impaired by using skills that build trust , and trying to understand the meaning of the experience in the light of the person 's past history . |
| 13 | Someone who is poorly integrated — say because she is living and working away from friends and kin — will have lower scores , because her ‘ vernacular ’ is not being reinforced . |
| 14 | Life , as someone who 's barely escaped drowning ( no thanks to me , I blush ) , will tell you , is too short to give up hunting unicorns . |
| 15 | It 's practically impossible to say no to someone who 's actually loaded their rucksack into your boot and clipped on their seatbelt . |
| 16 | His hands felt smooth , like those of a woman or someone who 's never done a hard day 's work in their life . |
| 17 | It was described to someone who 's recently set up a a small restaurant on Road , as being a high risk insurance area . |
| 18 | Would someone with terminal cancer have a better life expectancy than someone who was publicly known to have ratted on the Maniax ? ’ |
| 19 | This is true whether the loss is small and relatively trivial or if total and of the greatest importance , such as losing through death someone we are deeply attached to . |
| 20 | I myself was greatly encouraged and inspired by Eric Milner-White , Dean of York and before that Dean of King 's College , Cambridge . |
| 21 | Thus Barthes 's account of wrestling does not seem so strange and unlikely as if it were merely his own and there were no alternative account against which his was implicitly juxtaposed . |
| 22 | If , for example , I am engaged in reading a text on a subject in which I am well versed ( where the ideational or content schema is familiar ) , which has been written in a manner conventionally associated with writing on this subject ( where the interpersonal or formal schema is familiar ) , then I shall only need to pay attention to the linguistic signs to the extent that they key in this schematic knowledge and indicate how it is to be extended . |
| 23 | ‘ Except the fictitious character by which I am best known ! ’ |
| 24 | It also plays host to a number of strange , ghostly occurrences according to a book I belong to Glasgow by Bill Hamilton and Gordon Carsely , from which I am most obliged for the information . |
| 25 | I am plagued by awkward thoughts , like splinters in my brain : the seventh grade and pocket radios , games of spin the bottle from which I am cheerfully excluded , tight jeans , Bonnie Bell lip gloss , me , boyish and baffled , the menacing breath of puberty . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've prepared an inventory of the furniture , and ticked those pieces to which I 'm particularly attached . ’ |
| 27 | A new R. A. F. camp , to which I was duly sent , had just been opened and was still partly empty when one day a new batch of prisoners was announced . |
| 28 | ‘ While engaged in watching the movements of the several species of the great family of Procellaridae , which at one time often and often surrounded the ships that conveyed me round the world , a bright speck would appear on the distant horizon , and , gradually approaching nearer and nearer , at length assumed the form of the White-headed petrel , whose wing-powers far exceed those of any of its congeners ; at one moment it would be rising high in the air , at the next sweeping comet-like through the flocks flying around ; never , however , approaching the ship sufficiently near for a successful shot , and it was equally wary in avoiding the boat with which I was frequently favoured for the purpose of securing examples of other species ; but , to make use of a familiar adage , the most knowing are taken in at last ’ ’ ; one beautiful morning , the 20th of Feb. 1839 , during my passage from Hobart Town to Sydney , when the sea was perfectly calm and of a glassy smoothness , this wanderer of the ocean came in sight and approached within three hundred yards of the vessel ; anxious to attract him still closer , so as to bring him within range , I thought of the following stratagem : — a corked bottle , attached to a long line , was thrown overboard and allowed to drift to the distance of forty or fifty yards , and kept there until the bird favoured us with another visit , while flying around in immense circles ; at length his keen eye caught sight of the neck of the bottle ( to which a bobbing motion was communicated by sudden jerks of the string ) , and he at once proceeded to examine more closely what it was that had arrested his attention ; during this momentary pause the trigger was pulled , the boat lowered , and the bird was soon in my possession . ’ |
| 29 | In view of the apparently conflicting views expressed by this court in other cases , in two of which I was personally involved , I would like to add some words of my own . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been ashore , enjoying a short break to which I was perfectly entitled , ’ she flung back at him . |