Example sentences of "[adv] be [prep] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what if at the moment of birth the whole of one 's life to come were to flash before one 's eyes and then to be immediately wiped away , forgotten , while we laboriously go through all the pleasures and sorrows , all the hopes and frustrations that make up a life , meeting people and parting from them , listening to them and speaking to them , to go through tasting all we taste in the course of our long lives , seeing all we see , every leaf at every moment and every cloud at every moment , and hearing all we hear , the hooting of every car and the singing of every bird and every performance of the Brandenburg concertos , go through all that , in time , very slowly , though we had already been through it all , every moment of it , leaf , cloud , concerto , in one brief but intense instant , everything perfectly formed but over in less than a second ? |
| 2 | It 's certainly exciting for us to think that you will soon be with us more permanently . |
| 3 | She says Perkin is with her , will always be with her that way . ’ |
| 4 | Mr Rosen 's attack on the lists was not with the particular choice of titles — indeed the list was so extensive that no one could possibly be against them all . |
| 5 | All that is needed now is for you all to take advantage of this week of Medau , either as a daily visitor , or residentially . |
| 6 | Ben had even been at it all through the war . |
| 7 | But before we jump to the conclusion that Pound had simply had a brainstorm , or had been trapped by misplaced compassion for Dunning as a lame duck , we ought to consider another possibility — that imagism , and Pound 's endorsement of Ford 's insistence on ‘ the prose tradition ’ , had never been for him more than an aberration , though in the short term a very profitable one , from a way of feeling that impelled him always toward the cantabile , a proclivity that would , in the interests of melody , tolerate notably eccentric diction . |