Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heard about you being sick and put two and two together — though what the other two was , I 'm damned if I know . |
| 2 | Oh yeah but still you know we got through it was great . |
| 3 | It was easy to see why Rose found him so attractive ; whether he cared for her was another matter and nothing to do with Melissa or her present mission . |
| 4 | The office that led off it was larger , with two desks positioned so that they faced each other . |
| 5 | And what stinks about it is vested interests to the fore . |
| 6 | Not that people used to let you know about they were hard up I mean , they just would n't would they ? |
| 7 | Confidence is hard to measure , so worries about it are easy to dismiss — but when it goes you can generally tell by counting the dole queues . |
| 8 | Of course , at the end of the day they pay the same for them whether directly or through taxation , but if they pay for them directly , in return for service or as private insurance , then their incentives to work for them are greater and the economy benefits . |
| 9 | ‘ Those ethereal Pre-Raphaelite looks of yours are deceptive . ’ |
| 10 | She picked up her cup , and said in a voice as cool as she could make it , ‘ Yes , I have heard of Miss Foy , and what you say of her is true . |
| 11 | Merciless , he lapped her , sucked her , grazed her with his teeth until the waves of sensation that beat against her were more than she could bear . |
| 12 | ‘ Looks like you 're right about there being a new man at the top , ’ said Carradine , ‘ and he 's just paid you his friendly compliments . ’ |
| 13 | To struggle against it was revolutionary and progressive , whereas to struggle against the objective processes producing a class would be futile and Utopian . |
| 14 | That the environment is not animate enough to want to communicate with us is irrelevant . |
| 15 | In in fact one of my one of the pupils I am proposing to work with he 's one of her people who have contacted her and she 's she 's quite deliberately limiting the number of her days in the week she teaches to two . |
| 16 | UV light seems to have a particular penchant for DNA , and the chemical changes that UV radiation causes in it are manifest as genetic mutations . |
| 17 | Not very large , if coffin it really is ; whoever lies in it was fine-boned and slender . |
| 18 | No one wants to feel owned by another person , and perhaps what Matthew needs from you is some breathing space , some freedom , a demonstration of trust in him . ’ |
| 19 | Mixed in it were 30 kg of TCDD . |
| 20 | But I am sure that what determined her to write to me was this paragraph : ‘ The author we most admire has rightly said that people do not know about families ; but Stephen and I know . |
| 21 | For him to know that she was still very much sexually attracted to him was bad enough — but she was terrified of Ross discovering that her feelings ran much deeper . |
| 22 | A narrow smile thinned his lips but the look he cast on her was scalpel-sharp before he turned in unexpected obedience . |
| 23 | Well do n't count on it being short then . |
| 24 | Well not me and he does n't even know English he has to he 's bloody dum . |
| 25 | Even if we are assured that the creatures in question are not in any pain , some people will prolong the argument either by insisting that they must be in some sort of distress , or by claiming that even if they are not overtly suffering , what is happening to them is cruel and unwarranted exploitation . |
| 26 | We have lived in this peaceful west Stirlingshire village for 32 years , and thought the risk of it happening to us was negligible . |
| 27 | It has to succeed , not in fair competition , but in the face of ignorance and misunderstanding : ignorance , because whereas professional knowledge and informed advice on the incorporation and conduct of conventionally organised companies are generally available , whereas education and training relating to them are commonplace , this is not true for co-operatives ; misunderstanding , because the industrial co-operative sector is still often regarded as characterised by the three well-known rescue cases … and hence as supposing itself to be exempted from test by commercial criteria and the rigours of the market economy . |
| 28 | Like a magician 's cabinet ( on which it was based ) , any Dalek going through its portal would cause a series of panels to flip round , thereby giving the impression it had vanished without it being obvious how it had vanished . |
| 29 | they they did n't wait till it was dry . |
| 30 | No we 're laugh , not laughing at her being deaf , we 're laughing at her , the robbery . |