Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pron] be [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Yeah cos when we went to Cleethorpes you were on about they were Fred 's taties . |
2 | He came back to me , went on about her being West Indian and all that . |
3 | But in between it was march , march , march , with our new boots giving us hell . |
4 | In between there 's moments of drama like the killing of Lee Harvey Oswald and among it all , spectacular treasures like Popperfoto 's rare COLOUR pictures of the second world war . |
5 | Only in the room Sally had chosen especially for her was Harriet amongst familiar echoes of the past and she never entered it without feeling a wave of gratitude towards her aunt . |
6 | So what I suggest you do is pay an additional three pounds which means that that is now covered for up to five thousand pounds regardless of it 's weight . |
7 | So with it being conference time , we can get lots of companies who are turning up and giving conference presentations , lots of academic types . |
8 | And they together with who are animal feed stuff and and and corn and fertilizer people , erm organized the marquis and generally do the groundwork that gets the kids there . |
9 | Brought in over him was Tony Cook , a good-natured and permanently jolly NoS regional activist and successful businessman who had invested £6,000 of his own money in the paper . |
10 | The only one that 's gone down to yours is Bill last week for those four and a half hours doing that interceptor . |
11 | If it 's a fairly tall one then obviously on it 's side it 's gon na long . |
12 | one of the ways of training you or breaking you in to what was materia m the materia medica of the pharmacy . |
13 | And the company who 's in on it was Christmas |
14 | All around them were battles , with machine-gunners and troops . |
15 | All around me were stars . |
16 | All around us were mountains ; they were often half-smothered in cloud , but in the evenings this lifted and then the crests loomed over us , rain-washed , clear-cut and splendid . |
17 | One insider opines that IBM has probably lost a little of it 's smugness . |
18 | Not for nothing is water polo an Italian expression to describe business life : the fouls are done with the feet under the water where the umpire can not see them . ’ |
19 | Not for nothing is New York mocked by some as Moscow-on-the-Hudson . |
20 | Paralysed though she was , not for anything was Dolly going to drop Sergeant Joe in the cart , not for anything would she even admit he was in the house . |
21 | By dint of merit , I 'll the Lawrel snatch ; I 'll not for it 's reversion tamely Watch . |
22 | With with we got innovations that no other union , not of it 's size , ever had . |
23 | So they walk in , wearing their Izod shirts and white walking shorts with clean sneakers , just like it was Miami Beach , and it was , ‘ Howiya ? |
24 | Ray Wilkins pulled in quite a few votes … 5 per cent … just above him is Ray Clemence … the top four … the heavywweights … the favourites … |
25 | Well , they would have showed a wider picture of the actual picture , and apparently they take , co , the photographers had taken a baby away from it 's mother he 's standing in the middle of a desert , and there 's a picture of them with a baby and all these photographers photographing it ! |
26 | A decision that jurisdiction exists is always a logically necessary precondition to the exercise of jurisdiction : because it is logically prior to the exercise of jurisdiction , it can not in itself be part of the exercise of jurisdiction . |
27 | 3 of the 4 smoking kilns were completely destroyed and the roof of the 300 year old listed building burnt through to it 's rafters . |
28 | Policiano is about 6 miles south of this and just beyond it is Cortona , one of Italy 's oldest and most charming towns . |
29 | Right behind her was Shildon . |
30 | Sound a bit more like you 're Nightmare on Elm Street ! |