Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm prejudices come from all sorts of things , some of them are historical , some of them are generated out of things like football and arguments in the evening about good teams . |
| 2 | May I inform him , as he has not answered my question , that the same careers service says that nothing has changed and that the same number of young people will not get YTS places , that many of them are fed up with turning up , only to be told that nothing is available and that the continued recession and closures mean that hundreds of them will have nothing to do ? |
| 3 | The only mercy is that most of them are put out of their misery before they 've lived a tenth of their natural lifespan . |
| 4 | I had a close look at that table , obviously a matter of some interest and that 's the reason I return to this , as I read the table , there is a very substantial amount of double counting within it , for this reason , that all outstanding er planning permissions are included once , and there are then separate categories of allowance for all types of sites , namely large windfalls , conversions , small sites , and allocated sites , those are all put in , er or most of them are put in at thirteen years worth , that being the remainder of the plan period to two thousand and six , it will not have escaped you that if you include thirteen years worth all the existing commissions are part of that thirteen years , and so simplest approach to correct that table would simply to discount the outstanding commitments , because they 're all counted again as part of the thirteen years , I do have a secondary point that the allowance for conversions is very much higher than what seems to be happening , and in what is in the tables that er Mr Thomas drew it to your attention from the York City er appendix eight , so that er on on two counts , but mainly the double counting one there is a great deal of er erm optimism , if I can call it that , in that table . |
| 5 | A lot of them are going out of the area , but I think er I 'd imagine that a large majority or a a large proportion certainly would wish to stay in . |
| 6 | I been beaten up by hoods , framed on a murder rap , beaten up by cops , sent up the river , beaten up by prison bulls , got a last-minute reprieve from the governor , and been beaten up by my girl . ’ |
| 7 | Dixie and I are dressed up for the Island . |
| 8 | Hamish and I are going over to the Island to see her next weekend . |
| 9 | Hi , After lengthy negotiations in private , Gav & I are going along to the Sunderland game together on Wednesday . |
| 10 | When Cousteau comes back with the divers and equipment , Van Gelder and I are going down with them to have a look at this plane . |
| 11 | ‘ Suzi and I are going back to her dance studio and she 's going to put me through the dance routine again . ’ |
| 12 | But I am thinking back to the days before the war — the ‘ 39–45 war in Europe , that is — when a reporter was actually expected to know the place he was writing about . |
| 13 | And this gentleman in West Yorkshire would certainly have the blessing of many if he carried out his idea : ‘ Having taken early retirement , I am casting about for some way to supplement my pension . |
| 14 | ‘ Do you still think I am holding back on Surere ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I am not quite the Hochhauser rapist I am made out to be , but I expect a little peck , just here , on the cheek . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I will be absolutely gutted if I am ruled out of the derby . |
| 17 | The success — I am looking out of the window at the thickly carpeted mountainside — comes from the knowledge of shared weakness , the weakness of both men and women in matters of sex and passion . |
| 18 | I am looking down on the world , but it does not stretch away over nebulous distant horizons . |
| 19 | I am catching up on George Orwell , too , and reading Solzhenitsyn . |
| 20 | Bob is away on a day 's painting course today , so I am catching up with my letters before the Christmas deluge . |
| 21 | ‘ I have not eaten and I am in rags and all I ask is a share of your fire before I am turned out into the cold night again … |
| 22 | We will get over it and I am getting on with the work in hand . ’ |
| 23 | I am plunged back into robust adventures with my sturdy sea-horse . |
| 24 | I am cut off at the waist for ever . |
| 25 | Or is it because I am worn out by passivity , by having to accept and bear and endure , and because I am quite clever and resourceful , I have just turned , like the proverbial worm ? |
| 26 | While I am tucked up by my warm fire being waited on hand and foot , you will be out in your cars touring the streets with nowhere to go , wishing in vain for a lovely girl to console you and end your loneliness . |
| 27 | Unfortunately I am tied up for the next month or so with filming commitments , but I hope we can arrange some time in July . |
| 28 | Gav is setting off from Oxford , I am setting off from West London . |
| 29 | The producer , a blase+ young woman , toyed with a lettuce leaf and an olive , but on the rare occasions I am asked out to lunch I generally do without breakfast , so I made up for her and discussed the shooting schedule ( you soon pick up the jargon ) with the director . |
| 30 | I am to remain ill and without treatment , I am to carry on with the exhausting task of caring for an old and senile woman . ’ |