Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] be [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shd educ ourselves to be dply & bttrly prej — agnst prej ! ’ |
| 2 | One solution is never to leave your home unoccupied again , but if you ca n't face life without holidays you could pay someone to be there when you are n't . |
| 3 | ‘ But it 's not necessary for you to be here if I 'm here , ’ she protested . |
| 4 | So she said dad 's got to go straight down now for emergency surgery , come on then , for emergency surgery and they want you to be there before he goes , oh christ perhaps I 'm |
| 5 | ‘ And frankly , ’ he said , coming to the essence of the matter , ‘ those two do n't want to go without you , and Harry wants you to be there and … well … so do I. ’ |
| 6 | Never yes so I thought let them come and they wanted you to be there and then I could n't rid of I just could n't get them to change their minds you know they just wanted you there and I said |
| 7 | Here is an example of a political decision being taken at the highest level by an elected government which nevertheless felt itself to be more or less powerless in relation to a large transnational company . |
| 8 | and bolt that one because I do n't want anybody to be there when I get back . |
| 9 | But it is a little unusual for there to be more than one left in at this stage . |
| 10 | In case you are frightened off , may I say that it is unusual for there to be more than three major matters arising from a survey on the average house . |
| 11 | And , through her understanding , she knows herself to be utterly and completely alone . |
| 12 | " Do n't expect me to be here when you get back . " |
| 13 | Father did n't like me to be there when Diggs came and , anyway , I still had a couple of Poles to check before the sun went down . |
| 14 | But she knew that telling things the way you wanted them to be rather than the way they were did n't change anything for longer than the moment of the lie . |
| 15 | Yet she sensed that it might be like telling things the way you wanted them to be rather than the way they really were . |
| 16 | Many opinions I formerly entertained are now given up & probably many of my present opinions will share the same fate — I wish them to be closely and fully ( as I know they will fairly ) examined without any regard to the author & therefore I can not by my presence aid your cause . |
| 17 | But his mature convictions were the effect of a long organised retreat from the simple dualities of youthful Marxism — capitalism against socialism , bourgeois against prole — and the first of his books ever to see print , Down and Out in Paris and London ( 1933 ) , had been emphatic that Marxist analysis fails to correspond to observed experience , the gradations insisted on by the kitchen-staff of a Parisian hotel or the destitute of an English doss-house being there because the poor want them to be there and not by compulsion . |
| 18 | But I am happy for them to be there and wish them well . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , the price of cattle fell from £5 a head to £1 a head shortly after this arrangement was made , and the Masai found themselves being asked to pay more and more for what seemed to them to be less and less — for some of the waterworks had already begun to fail . |
| 20 | No it 's to much of a , I hate saying I 'll go out at eight o'clock and tell him to be home and at quarter too eight he has n't come and oh , I 'm to tired really , but , so I 've always played it that I will help when I when I can , but uhum , I do n't go on the committee , cos then your stuck , you 've got to go . |
| 21 | Police stopped Kelly , of Chelmsford , and a breath test showed him to be more than twice the legal alcohol limit . |
| 22 | I once specially asked for him to be there and then demanded to know at the rehearsal who was this man sitting with the flutes . |
| 23 | I would dearly wish him to be there and yet I would not impose on his convictions . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I told her to be here when we arrived . |
| 25 | She could n't guess why Sandra Kettering in her detailed instructions had arranged for her to be there and for that mistake to be made . |
| 26 | He said nothing , just squeezed her arm to let her know it was all right , that he wanted her to be there as well . |
| 27 | Alexandra talked to her when she wanted it , read to her when she wished , and while she slept in the daytime , sat and did the household correspondence , knowing Aunt Emily liked her to be there when she woke . |
| 28 | In particular , if a foreign element is involved the court will need to be satisfied that , in respect of the relief sought against him , the defendant is sufficiently connected with England for it to be just and proper to make the order against him despite the foreign element ( post , pp. 702H — 703A , 705B ) . |
| 29 | In particular , if a foreign element is involved the court will need to be satisfied that , in respect of the relief sought against him , the defendant is sufficiently connected with England for it to be just and proper to make the order against him despite the foreign element . |
| 30 | I 've grown up hating and loving country music , too ; sometimes you just did n't want it to be there 'cos it was the only thing you 'd hear on the radio in Texas , before rock'n'roll . |