Example sentences of "[verb] be [prep] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I 'd been to As I tell you , I 'd been to night school , joinery classes . |
| 2 | About two-thirds of the sacks of refuse had gone , and the pit she had seen was as if it had never been , under a litter of dead leaves where a couple of blackbirds foraged . |
| 3 | Better , yes , better than erm , some , in the old days when you used to take those photo 's they used to be awful did n't they , erm , everybody sort of look 's as if they were staring and sort of all |
| 4 | As well and so that that get 's over whether they you know that get 's over this thing about erm views of other people j the way you |
| 5 | MESSIEST DESK : Viscount Weymouth 's was reminiscent of what the world must have been like before they invented waste-paper baskets . |
| 6 | She thought of the jokes they 'd shared , bundled up chastely in her bed , and she wondered what it would have been like if they had made love . |
| 7 | But Gustave used to write me letters describing what it would have been like if we had been married . |
| 8 | What would the album have been like if you had n't gone there ? |
| 9 | I would n't have changed places with my father 's new children who , although they were five and seven , still seemed to smell of damp nappies and regurgitated milk , but I used sometimes to wonder what I would have been like if he had devoted similar time to me and not left me entirely to the women . |
| 10 | Neither does Poulantzas explain what the peasantry would have been like if it had not had this pertinent effect , except in so far as he stipulates that they would not then have been a class . |
| 11 | That look I think was for when he next meets Gareth Gilcock . |
| 12 | It had been as if he came from another , alien world , beyond her experience or comprehension , a glamorous , glittering man who made her think of diamonds , so hard and sharp were the edges of his personality . |
| 13 | During this time I was able to develop some understanding of the sorts of backgrounds my interviewees came from , what their hopes , fears , values and experiences of life had been like before they joined the movement and how these might have changed since . |
| 14 | She wanted to be happy with him and for everything to be as it had been before but it did n't seem possible . |
| 15 | What would love be for if it did n't solve everything ? |