Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] be [verb] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within hours I was flying over it . |
| 2 | ‘ Of course I 'm coming with you , Nick ! |
| 3 | So anyway yesterday afternoon I was checking through it when the phone went again to ask about the washing machine and I was looking through the paper to see whether , and they 'd put it in this week ! |
| 4 | It would be interesting to know whether Petrey really does hold the views I am attributing to him , and whether he thinks that speech act theories of semantics are therefore based on a fundamental error . |
| 5 | ‘ The lads I 'm taking with me will ensure there is a British influence and a British type of discipline throughout the side . ’ |
| 6 | You see , you know I was talking to you earlier about , about punchlines basically , but I ca n't remember the words I was using for it , times like by the way , right right , or did you know or did I mention to you do you follow me , a lot of key lines that you can think on that you use |
| 7 | And last Saturday I was speaking to her and Gary and the hotel phoned up and said pipes had burst . |
| 8 | The Jews ' special characteristics derive from the religion which was given to them by Moses , which stressed one God who was invisible and would not allow images of Himself to be made for worship . |
| 9 | His name trembled on her lips once more , no longer a name but an endearment , a paean to the deep spring of emotion which was gushing through her , banishing logical thought , obliterating words like ‘ giving ’ and ‘ taking ’ , replacing them with ‘ sharing ’ . |
| 10 | They are documents of all sorts which were given to me by my father or which I found among his papers after his death in 1968 . |
| 11 | Alice , slightly pink , glanced at Auguste , and continued to avoid Alfred 's eyes which were fixed on her beseechingly . |
| 12 | We do not have a mind which is formed like theirs , we do not experience things in the way they do . |
| 13 | Those who think that ideas consist of images which are formed in us by the concourse of bodies … regard ideas as lifeless pictures on a board , and preoccupied thus with this misconception they do not see that an idea , insofar as it is an idea , involves affirmation or negation . |
| 14 | Looking to the north , she could already see the curtains of snow which were sweeping towards them with terrifying speed . |
| 15 | MAS maintains a computerised database , called BUYERS , of potential purchasers and their acquisition criteria against which all acquisition opportunities which are brought to us or come to our attention are screened . |
| 16 | We maintain a computerised database of potential purchasers and their acquisition criteria against which all acquisition opportunities which are brought to us or come to our attention are screened . |
| 17 | Electrophoretic mobility shift assays ( EMSA ) with extracts of mouse brain [ 13 ] glia and neurons [ 14 ] have revealed a complex pattern of at least four nervous tissue-specific Oct ( N-Oct ) DNA-binding proteins which were termed by us N-Oct 2 , N-Oct 3 , N-Oct 4 and N-Oct 5A/5B . |
| 18 | Later , in the 1860s , Persigny remarked to the Emperor that the charges on the civil list were enormous — to which Napoleon III replied that had so much money not been allotted in the first place he would have been unable to fulfil all the demands which were made upon him . |
| 19 | The bulk of LIFFE 's trade is conducted by " open outcry " in pits , each of which is specific to a particular type of instrument which is traded in it only during the recognised hours laid down by the Exchange . |
| 20 | Babies do not enter this world suffering from anxiety ; it is a condition which is imposed upon them by other people — although not necessarily intentionally . |
| 21 | By Tuesday she was flirting with me in a sweet , old-fashioned way , blue eyes as young as her memory . |
| 22 | The referees you were looking for you |
| 23 | The most recent recipient was the Sultan of Brunei who was presented with his by the Chancellor Lord Jenkins . |
| 24 | Some Territorials who were standing near me became pensive . |
| 25 | Well I 'm finishing me tape she 's coming for it in the morning . |
| 26 | All parties who are represented before me were represented before the justices . |
| 27 | A political analysis , in a non-party sense , involves consideration of how the proposal is likely to be viewed by the parties who are affected by it , in particular the resource providers . |
| 28 | They must have been filled in at the bank either by Mr Hatton himself or else by the cashier who was attending to him . ’ |
| 29 | She attends to the reservations , and when people arrive she shows them to the chalets she 's arranged for them to occupy . ’ |
| 30 | her lips curled in a smile , and Patrick wondered if she knew what effect she was having on him — and then realized that she probably did . |