Example sentences of "[coord] [vb base] [pers pn] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or suppose you 're in an antique shop and find the writing desk you 've always wanted . |
| 2 | If it makes you feel any better , you may like to know that she 's been telling me that our separation was all my fault — because I was too proud to climb down , or admit I was in the wrong . |
| 3 | No she is n't here , as far as I know or care she 's in the West Indies . |
| 4 | Or have you been on a re-training scheme ? |
| 5 | Erm , how often do you go to a meeting or have you been to a meeting , which has to stop for twenty minutes because some clown has left the files in his office , and he has to go back and retrieve them . |
| 6 | I could ring them up and say I 'm in touch with your competition in Portugal |
| 7 | The powerboat world has been left high and dry this summer by a big red boat named Flippin Shytalk … its call sign is P69 … the only number that reads the same upside down … but the Oxfordshire crew that run and race her are on the very top of their sport at the moment … |
| 8 | The borough council 's new administration agreed 12 new objectives last summer designed to improve the quality of services and ensure they were in line with what residents wanted . |
| 9 | Once the ability to create symbolic signals and rearrange them was in place , individuals that accomplished this more effectively might well have been at an advantage over those who did it less effectively in terms of all the benefits that come from co-operation . |
| 10 | We consider for the moment only the case where His non-negative and D is positive , and assume they are of such a size that overflow does not occur ( see problem 2.4 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ I am ambitious and feel I am at the right age to go into management . |
| 12 | He could sit on a terrace in the French quarter , sipping wine , and feel he was in France . |
| 13 | You sit on the window seat and feel you are on the river . |
| 14 | I had intended to emerge while Mr Cardinal was still a reasonable distance away , so that he would see me in good time and suppose I was on my way to the summerhouse , or perhaps to the gardener 's lodge . |
| 15 | We establish order and think we are in control ; then Nu throws over the table and breaks what we have taken a lifetime to construct . |
| 16 | We might look at it and think it 's worth doing it 's interesting . |
| 17 | Yeah and if you go in and think it 's like all the other museums you have charts you have figures statistics along with you you know it 's rather very sad but it 's entertaining |
| 18 | I went on a freebie last week and think I am in love again . |
| 19 | At three in the morning I wake up with a start and think I am in a funeral parlour . |
| 20 | I 'm going to lie in bed in the darkness and the music and think I 'm with G.P. and he 's lying over there with his eyes shut and his pitted cheek and his Jew 's nose ; as if he was on his own tomb . |
| 21 | Maybe you just had dinner with her , and wish you were with her now . |
| 22 | ‘ And the Lord Henry Percy and his lady in especial greet your Grace , and pray you be of good cheer in this happy news , for that the price set upon these Scots prisoners , such as belong to the Lord Henry , shall be at your Grace 's disposal in the matter of the redeeming of their beloved kinsman , Sir Edmund Mortimer , out of his captivity in Wales . |
| 23 | But happen it 's for the best ; you had to know some time . |
| 24 | For the briefest second I wonder why my Thomas the Tank Engine mobile has been taken down , but assume it is to be re-positioned to make room for the present . |
| 25 | But suppose I was in the bathroom , and wanted to go to the kitchen . |
| 26 | ‘ But suppose I 'm on it , and the driver becomes ill , then I expect I 'll have to take over . |
| 27 | Maggie could n't help but think she was in the middle of a death trap . |