Example sentences of "be [adj] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most comprehensive research has been that carried out by Dingwall , Eekelaar and Murray ( 1983 ) , based on participant observation in social services departments , NHS child health services and casualty departments , and juvenile courts . |
| 2 | There are some gone back to work they have n't got all that heavy obligations but there are lads on the line which have got very heavy complications and children and they have stuck it out you know . |
| 3 | ‘ We 're all made out of dust , are n't we ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You 're all strung out like a tight wire . |
| 5 | went to have a look in his bedrooms like and I they 're all done out in pine , every bedroom is done out in pine . |
| 6 | Oh they 're all lit up across their car . |
| 7 | ‘ Specially as you 're all fixed up with Harry . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , you 're all dressed up to the nines ! ’ |
| 9 | ‘ We 're all fed up with him , and we 're disappointed with the League and players ' union . |
| 10 | They 're all fed up with this shit . |
| 11 | ‘ OK , the shooting 's stopped and we 're all parked up outside the Butcher Building . |
| 12 | They 're all wrapped up in their feathers like old men in blankets trying to keep warm . |
| 13 | They 're all wrapped up in bits of cloth and lying on all this cardboard . |
| 14 | Erm then we said er another the train to such a place will be quarter of an hour late , we 're very sorry cos it 's held up , everything was standing outside the station , er they 're all held up with this fire at Banbury , was upsetting everything |
| 15 | Wait till I 've cut it and we 're all sat down with a piece , and I 'll tell you a story . |
| 16 | I mean , we 're all pissed off with each other . ’ |
| 17 | But that 's what we 're all brought up to be . |
| 18 | ‘ They 're all brought out for you , saddled and bridled ? ’ |
| 19 | honourable member what he 's really saying as I understand it Madam Speaker is there 's too much bureaucracy and the bureaucracy is going to prevent anybody acting because they 're all overlapping , they 're all paid out of presumably the public purse as well , there 's a there 's a enormous number of public off officials that is preventing er a a clear direct , exes executive arm . |
| 20 | We have the club slides in our house so that you know really whoever takes over organizing the meeting should really have those and they 're all sorted out in order so it 's just a case of diving in the bag and looking for whatever you want , ever the I always try to bring some fish to look at , to the the scr to the screen erm some of the fish that were on show on the table for that particular sh er in erm table show because I think it shows interest and to learn more about the fish and it 's always nice when somebody else knows a lot more about the particular species than you do , and i is able to tell you quirks and fancies that they have . |
| 21 | They 're all weighed out with the saddle , weight cloths . |
| 22 | The other auction bidders are all tied up with litigation against the Special Forces . |
| 23 | Our very limited resources are all tied up in getting on with the work . |
| 24 | The lightstick lasts for up to six hours sometimes longer you tee up the ball on every shot so that you ca n't hit the light stick out when this game is played the flags are all lit up with bigger lightsticks . |
| 25 | They are all pumped up at the moment . |
| 26 | The Book of Earth , the cornucopia of all the tiny books that go to make up The Book of Languages and even more disconcertingly , The Book of Mirrors , are all locked up in a glass case . |
| 27 | These are all stamped out with a huge press and dies like pastry cutters , in a dark vault in our street , by an old man who cuts from one skin first the back of a large rucksack , then a couple of handbag sides , and eventually bits of miniature hanging purses , like a thrifty housewife making tarts . |
| 28 | Whether it is the Lusitania steaming up the Irish coast towards her doom or a couple of one-legged dwarfs drinking in a bar in Paris , the processes of imagination in the form of characters , clothes , setting , and action are all clawed out of the mind . |
| 29 | We are all made up of what we have achieved in the past , the character we have developed , our strong points , our weaknesses . |
| 30 | They are all made up of the same shapes-triangles , squares and rectangles . |