Example sentences of "and [vb base] [pron] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could ring them up and say I 'm in touch with your competition in Portugal |
| 2 | 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 … |
| 3 | Says Bob , ‘ It 's amazing how much co-operation and support there is between these growers . ’ |
| 4 | The cinema was immediately adjacent to our house , so that every night we could hear the film and imagine what was on the screen . |
| 5 | Okay and read what 's at the bottom . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I want you all to get out your exercise books and copy what is on the board … ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | that 's no good at all , we need to read them and digest them and know what 's in them , simply to show not only that we 're conscious of our spiritual need , but to encourage others to become conscious of their spiritual needs , so can you see what we said earlier about our lives being involved in other people 's too ? |
| 10 | Hence the need for non-logical factors to influence the subject classes so that they will allow themselves to neglect their own utility and pursue what is in the interest of the governing elite and therefore of the community as a whole . |
| 11 | However , disappointment set in when we ventured home to find that the packaging contained a guitar , a separate tremolo and guarantee which was to be mailed to the USA . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | But a person going about it seriously has to discount his own personal opinion , which may be that all coloured people should — um — be expelled from the country , and decide what is in the best interests of the country as a whole , given that there is a large — er — ethnic problem . |
| 14 | And guess what 's on the menu . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Talking of romance — I passed Robert Sheldrake on my way to the pig farm , and guess who was in the car with him ? |
| 16 | And guess who was in the pony |
| 17 | And guess who was in the on the big horse and just went slow ? |
| 18 | I watched Dallas the other day and guess who was in it ? |
| 19 | We raided the unconscious , as it were , to , to liberate the repressed and , and , and understand what was in that . |
| 20 | ‘ I am ambitious and feel I am at the right age to go into management . |
| 21 | He could sit on a terrace in the French quarter , sipping wine , and feel he was in France . |
| 22 | You sit on the window seat and feel you are on the river . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He notes , for instance , that linguists have attempted to apply some of the terminology of natural science inappropriately to language , often through such metaphors as ‘ cohesion ’ , ‘ balance ’ etc. , which fix and reify what is in fact a more flexible and dynamic phenomenon . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | We might look at it and think it 's worth doing it 's interesting . |
| 27 | 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 |
| 28 | I went on a freebie last week and think I am in love again . |
| 29 | At three in the morning I wake up with a start and think I am in a funeral parlour . |
| 30 | 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 . |