Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | M. It makes me want to be sick . |
| 2 | Both pulls are strong and theories which purport to reconcile them tend to be fragile , even though they capture a stout commonsense conviction that , as Marx put it , ‘ Men make their own history but they do not make it just as they please ; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves . ’ |
| 3 | Additionally , most published publication counts refer to active practitioners , rather than to Ph D students , many of whom cease to be active in the subject field of their training . |
| 4 | Additionally , most published publication counts refer to active practitioners , rather than to Ph D students , many of whom cease to be active in the subject field of their training . |
| 5 | " Everyone has to be that . " |
| 6 | Plainly not everyone has to be subject to chronic disease . |
| 7 | This I now of course understand , that everyone has to be careful of any drug smugglers . |
| 8 | Mersey Regional Ambulance spokesman Richard Oswick said : ‘ Everyone has to be aware that the dark nights are drawing in and we all need to take special care . ’ |
| 9 | Exactly the same is true of ageism and everyone needs to be alert to their often unconscious ageist attitudes . |
| 10 | Everyone needs to be able to integrate work with personal life . |
| 11 | Given the conception we have , are mental events as we have conceived them excluded from being physical ? |
| 12 | Both of them want to be close and both need to repair their inner confusion about what they can allow themselves . |
| 13 | The noise was intense , constant chatter , voices raised in argument , an air of expectancy , even tension , as everyone pretended to be involved in what was happening around them but secretly watched the great ones at the high table . |
| 14 | Alexander said that everyone wants to be right but no one stops to think whether their idea of right is in fact right . |
| 15 | Everyone wants to be healthy . |
| 16 | But it has only been half successful because everyone wants to be able to go everywhere . |
| 17 | Everyone wants to be able to design and create something with an individual touch , whether it 's an outfit to wear or soft furnishings for the home . |
| 18 | If someone persists in being awkward , then as leader you can choose to continue the discussion with them elsewhere and move on to another questioner . |
| 19 | Not that I mean to be cynical , but I do teach in an inner-city school ( where only Advanced Level pupils have textbooks — and they share — and where practical work involves half-a-dozen to a bunsen ) . |
| 20 | I mean to be that man . ’ |
| 21 | The other thing I mean to be healthy it 's more important to dry things and keep them dry for a while than to boil them . |
| 22 | Yeah I , I mean to be honest on that I was more conscious of the fact that we 'd only got fifteen |
| 23 | Well t I mean to be honest erm tt I wanted to try some different things er cos I 've seen these guys today |
| 24 | yeah I mean to be honest it 's just a case of one of you , it does go that way , I knew I was right the first time , of one of you just remembering |
| 25 | But I mean to be fair we used to we , warehouse thousands of tons of potatoes in Leicestershire , you see what I mean ? |
| 26 | I mean to be frank I hear this charge from all over the country . |
| 27 | Now that 's what I mean about being dishonest . |
| 28 | Mr. Alison : I intend to be present at the next meeting of the General Synod which is scheduled for July of this year . |
| 29 | Something which , if I lived to be two hundred years old then went and announced it at St Paul 's Cross , would rock the very throne of England and scandalise the courts of Europe ! |
| 30 | Later that evening , going on my farewell walk round Cuzco , I fought to be positive , talking to myself like a character in a novel I was reading at the time , David Copperfield 's aunt . |