Example sentences of "be [prep] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When your parents die , it 's a bit like having a baby — there 's the element of wondering why people who 've been through it did n't tell you what it was really like . |
| 2 | ‘ The ideal thing would have been for them to keep to their offer of a two-year deal and I would have signed it before the final . |
| 3 | Intuitively she felt the depths of the anguish he 'd suffered , knew without having to be told how hard he had struggled to help his sister , understood how devastating it must have been for him to realise she 'd gone beyond his help . |
| 4 | He had seen how entirely wrong it had been for him to have assumed that Beatrice Throgmorton would look twice at him . |
| 5 | It 's not been for us to tell people what they should or should n't eat or do anything with , because the , in , in one respect that 's a nann nannying attitude from er , whether it 's the legislators saying we 're not going to approve the right legislation so that you have that information , but on the other hand by manufacturers and others saying you trust us . |
| 6 | There is no mention anywhere of the fact that these were brothers and sisters , nor that they were born in Frome ; that has been for us to establish later . |
| 7 | ‘ Look Karen , no one is sorrier than I am about what happened . |
| 8 | The laws are the same on a bullet train or on a jet airplane as they are for someone standing in one place . |
| 9 | There 's no need for James to even attempt to sing the chorus , the entire audience are as one shouting that word out to him . |
| 10 | It may well be a ‘ parody ’ : the eight songs attributable to Bedyngham are between them supplied with no fewer than twenty-six different texts in four languages ; three remain doubtful as to their form , but two are ballades and three rondeaux , forms well known and widely practised in England at the time . |
| 11 | those boxes of crackers are about I think they 're about fifteen pound a box and the three |
| 12 | Although she was reasonably sure that Harry was still in love with her , she was concerned at all the talk there had been about him marrying the American girl . |
| 13 | In contrast the long-wave school focuses more precisely on technology , though it is notable that much of the debate within that school has been about what causes technological change and how that change should be seen as part of a wider system . |
| 14 | Well that 's why she has n't been about you see . |
| 15 | Er which is the case unfortunately in er some instances with animals , but it 's been as you know perhaps at the R S P C A shelter just down the road there at er , but it 's gone now to a happy home in Derbyshire . |
| 16 | Mr Jarvis , who first gained the attention of Mrs Major through his readings of the Richmal Crompton 's William stories , says : ‘ The BBC have been after me to record some more William stories but I have decided that one series a year is quite enough . |
| 17 | But if you 're like me moving to a , a house that 's been established for some years you 'll probably find there 's only a minimum of power points because let's face it over the years the use of electrical apparatus have become more and more has n't it ? |
| 18 | Yes certainly in the late nineteen eighties , more houses were built in one particular year , depend depending on which part of the country you 're in it happens to be different years . |
| 19 | I do n't think they 're in it to make zillions and zillions of pounds , I think they 're in it to make great records . |
| 20 | I do n't think they 're in it to make zillions and zillions of pounds , I think they 're in it to make great records . |
| 21 | and they get er old enough to be er quite er happy that they 're on you know , c centre of attention |
| 22 | And the sheet that you 're on you complete that sheet . |
| 23 | When you 're on it make sure you believe what you 're saying ! |
| 24 | Buy a metal bulb planting tool while you 're at it to help take the frustration out of planting into the grass . |
| 25 | The embarrassment increased as hoards of people who had been behind us passed me with odd , pitying looks , clearly curious as to what the hell I was doing squatting down by a rock on my own some considerable distance from the summit . |
| 26 | If we who are against it have to speak up for them , then it 's a duty we willingly undertake . |
| 27 | The actual women themselves — or rather girls , for they seem mainly to have been under 18-who worked in these experimental offices , are not heard in the debate , silenced not so much by their sex perhaps , as by their mostly humble circumstances and extreme youth and inexperience . |
| 28 | And you 'd have been onto me saying |
| 29 | Her mother had always bought her clothes , or at least been with her to help her choose them : summer dresses had been plain grey or blue , the blue ones often with a small check in them . |
| 30 | ‘ If John had n't been with him to help … ’ |