Citations:are
English citations of are
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Verb edit
- 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
- Now was I in a strait, and did not see Which was the best thing to be done by me: At last I thought, Since you are thus divided, I print it will, and so the case decided.
- Be not too forward, therefore, to conclude That I want solidness — that I am rude; All things solid in show not solid be; All things in parables despise not we; Lest things most hurtful lightly we receive, And things that good are, of our souls bereave.
- Come, let my carper to his life now look, And find there darker lines than in my book He findeth any; yea, and let him know, That in his best things there are worse lines too.
- 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
- He turned it gently, and sidled his face in, round the door. They were looking at the table (which was spread out in great array); for these young housekeepers are always nervous on such points, and like to see that everything is right.
- "You are?" repeated Scrooge. "Yes. I think you are. Step this way, sir, if you please."
Determiner edit
- 2014, Craig Rozniecki, LOL at the GOP - Volume 4: Guns, Jesus, Corporations, and Fetuses, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 31:
- Yes, it's time to take back "are" country and finally expand and improve our education system.
- 2022 June 14, Barry “Tomato” Rutherford (@brexitnutterbaz), Twitter[1], archived from the original on 2022-06-14:
- New posters at border control bring a tear ta my eye. WE GOT ARE COUNTRY BACK