Example sentences of "be [prep] [pers pn] [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 | 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 . |
8 | those boxes of crackers are about I think they 're about fifteen pound a box and the three |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Well that 's why she has n't been about you see . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 ? |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | and they get er old enough to be er quite er happy that they 're on you know , c centre of attention |
18 | And the sheet that you 're on you complete that sheet . |
19 | When you 're on it make sure you believe what you 're saying ! |
20 | Buy a metal bulb planting tool while you 're at it to help take the frustration out of planting into the grass . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | If we who are against it have to speak up for them , then it 's a duty we willingly undertake . |
23 | And you 'd have been onto me saying |
24 | 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 . |
25 | ‘ If John had n't been with him to help … ’ |
26 | Er s so many have been in you know so many have been in Bread I do n't actually , I do n't |
27 | What had been in it lay ahead of her . |
28 | Oh he has n't been round you know . |
29 | But it 's a little bit too long there , so you know them nails that are in you know the nails , they 're already in the window ? |
30 | ‘ At the end of the day all of us are in it to sell records . |