Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [verb] [pron] be [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she smiled , stroking Melanie 's face again , so tenderly that Melanie closed her eyes and imagined it was her own mother caressing her or any mother caressing any child . |
| 2 | It 's an embarrassment for people to come in and catch cold and think it 's your mattresses that 's done it . |
| 3 | She had visited us many times over a nu number of years and said it was our turn to visit her and we just laughed . |
| 4 | I used to put a mop on my head and pretend it was my hair . |
| 5 | But when he threw open the door to a room upstairs she saw a trouser-press and a black silk robe flung on a chair and knew it was his bedroom . |
| 6 | There is , it seems to me , a danger of treating the communities we study as pawns in some cosmic game of micro and macro processes , locating reality in the microprocesses of social interaction we observe in our villages and treating what is our subjects as something that is either less than reality or reality of a different kind or order . |
| 7 | He had seen the tremble jelly of a captain 's chin and known it was his uniform and the blue unit tabs that won it . |
| 8 | Who 's the complete pillock who thinks he can send commercial programs and pretend they 're his own ? |
| 9 | Then I looked at the chassis and registration numbers and realised it was my old car . |
| 10 | And then we we 're sending them the net list and saying there 's your new le er price |
| 11 | At least in what other poorer women were telling me , when it came to after work and weekends the men were quite the women were prepared to look after the children and felt it was their role to look after the children while the man was at work ; when the man came back he continued to feel that the woman should look after the children erm for the rest of the time , and the idea of a shared child care arrangement did not operate in at least a number of the families that I talked to and had been one of the causes of the breakdown of the marriage and one of the precipitating factors in the man physically abusing the woman . |