Example sentences of "be [conj] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can ask them either just as they are or use them as a basis for formulating questions that are particularly related to the job for which you are being interviewed . |
| 2 | Eventually we worked out where the line had been and followed it for a short way up to a demolished bridge . |
| 3 | He said here are and tapping him over the nose |
| 4 | I 'm sure you are and thank you for being such a wonderful chairman . |
| 5 | Well of course they are and bringing them over here must cost them five hundred quid . |
| 6 | Peter gives all new members of staff a document which tells them what their duties are and reminds them of the rights of the residents . |
| 7 | " Sam here 's just been an' asked me to be his wife , " she said . |
| 8 | She wanted him to be someone she could love and idealised the future in her head , but then found herself thinking about that most heartwrenching of adolescent discoveries ; people rarely are what you want them to be and betray you without malice , unaware of the pain they cause . |
| 9 | You ca n't just let it be and put it in the bin and forget about it . ’ |
| 10 | Another way is just to try to define its scope by explaining what it is that distinguishes it from other kinds of policy . |
| 11 | But I have often asked myself what it is that drew me to Sibelius 's music and I think it is that he is a composer who can not really be compared to anyone else . |
| 12 | The slight down side of all this is that your foe will usually know exactly how tough your cavalry is and target them with spells and artillery . |
| 13 | This means that once she knows where an object is and recorded it on the database , it is her responsibility to keep that information accurate . |
| 14 | Advisers will help you explore how realistic your idea is and guide you through the steps to getting started successfully . |
| 15 | Member states are not always as Community minded when implementing directives into their respective legal systems as they are when adopting them within the Council . |
| 16 | Thorpe J. was faced with having to choose between accepting one or other of two courses of action — leaving W. where she was or transferring her to London — each of which was supported by responsible medical opinion . |
| 17 | I forget what it was that distracted me for a moment , but as I delayed , the water bounced the boat up and down and then straight against the quay , with my finger in between . |
| 18 | It 's very difficult to put a finger on what it was that attracted me about him . |
| 19 | Apologists wishing to stress the harmony between science and religion may gloss over those facets of Christianity as it was that distinguished it from Christianity as they now wish it to be . |
| 20 | He had to watch her carefully , he said , and if she felt like pottering around , that was good medicine , Anything was that encouraged her to be cheerful . |
| 21 | ‘ And it was six years for both of us , but you 'll understand if I ca n't sympathise with your waiting when it was all unknowing — ignorance being bliss — whereas I 've known precisely what it was that troubled me through all those six years . ’ |
| 22 | The essential reason for obeying the sovereign power was that keeping it in power was inevitably better for the security of each than the chaos of civil war , or a society without government . |
| 23 | Whatever this strange apparition was that held them in its awe , reality would return when the bangs announced a train that belonged to this world . |
| 24 | Perhaps the magic of science would overcome this detestable witchcraft ( or whatever it was that held me in thrall ) . |
| 25 | I could have my own contributions returned or I could leave my pension where it was and draw it at the age of sixty-five . |
| 26 | The Russians obviously knew who he was and kept him under surveillance all the time . |
| 27 | I told him yes it was and brought him into the hall . |
| 28 | Also , he found that whenever he moved into one group or another , the warren rabbits evidently knew who he was and treated him as the leader of the newcomers . |
| 29 | They then spent the rest of the lesson — the first part had taken twenty minutes — in writing an account of why Rome was settled where it was and comparing it with the legends that they knew concerning Rome . |
| 30 | ‘ The rod with the smelt on soon went again and I did not realise how big the fish was and steered it around the swim for a minute to break the ice . |