Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] be [adv] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My first impressions about them are usually right and I can also tell if someone 's pretty without seeing them . ’ |
| 2 | On the other hand , T. Rex might have looked really good but everything else about them was so naïve and teenybopperish that you could n't really admit to your mates that you liked them . |
| 3 | What he has done for them is as various as the media he uses . |
| 4 | The gaps between them are so big that if you plunge your arm through into the mantle , the clam is quite unable to grip it — though the experiment is a little less unnerving if it is tried first with a post . |
| 5 | The silence between them was as bottomless as a dropped heartbeat . |
| 6 | They were talking rationally now , as adults , just as she had asked , but underneath the façade of civilised behaviour her heart was still doing funny things , and the electricity between them was as powerful as if they had been making love . |
| 7 | Such sky as was to be seen between them was as grey as a school sweater . |
| 8 | The atmosphere between them was so tense that no further words were exchanged until he stopped the curricle at the edge of the house . |
| 9 | Yet the argument that she sacrificed her art for his is as stupid as the argument about who influenced whom . |
| 10 | From then on his manner towards me was as cold as ice , which caused me great pain . |
| 11 | One of them 's still alive but he 's likely to bleed to death . ’ |
| 12 | Most of them are pretty yukky but the chocolate cookies are superb . |
| 13 | None of them are completely satisfactory because of the problem of control of ability and opportunity in the different settings . |
| 14 | This regime makes the settlor of a non-UK resident trust liable to capital gains tax on gains made by the trustees where the settlor has an interest , or is treated as having an interest , in the trust ( the trustees themselves being outside the UK capital gains tax net if a majority of them are neither resident nor ordinarily resident in the UK and the general administration of the trust is carried on outside the UK — see s69 TCGA 1992 ) . |
| 15 | All of them are equally vicious and vin vindictive . |
| 16 | So many of them are very insecure because of the nature of the business of the city . |
| 17 | ‘ Some of them are very good and quite useful , but it ‘ s a selfish existence . ’ |
| 18 | As I said , life is not all plain sailing , there are troubles , there are storms and some of them are very fierce and some of them would cause us to , to wonder if there is an escape . |
| 19 | Most of them are very courteous and we have n't minded them having a quick look round , but some are less welcome . |
| 20 | Some of them are very pretty and cosy , and the majority have TV and a stereo system , ’ she explained . |
| 21 | A whole range of worms is available to fishkeepers , though some of them are more suitable than others , especially since we know that live foods can be a source of infection . |
| 22 | From this road it is possible to make small diversions down into the villages of Jardim do Mar and Paúl do Mar , although the roads in and out of them are more spectacular than the villages themselves . |
| 23 | Perhaps the artists in this exhibition and book are united by only one thing other than that they have made use of some aspect of photographic technology : most of them are more likely than not to be familiar with the ideas of the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard . |
| 24 | Some of them are fairly minor and it 's to read them . |
| 25 | It would be quite impossible to discuss all the plates and sub-plates making up the Earth 's crust in this book , and it would n't be very useful either , since some of them are extremely complex and not at all well understood . |
| 26 | Some of them are still exogenous and can be modified only by varying the stimulus , but some of them now seem to depend mainly on the way the subject is processing the stimulus . |
| 27 | On the other hand , Harold Pinter 's characters Mick and Aston from The Caretaker are familiar , and both of them are still young and exciting enough to make good choices . |
| 28 | We are also accountable through the box office in terms that your public will not come and see events and pay their money if the events that you 're putting on are not of sufficiently high standard , so the accountability runs in three our four different channels and each of them are quite potent and quite immediate in terms of their impact that they can have on the Association . |
| 29 | Most of them are quite vulnerable and gentle , like dying dinosaurs . |
| 30 | Most of them are quite vulnerable and gentle , like dying dinosaurs . |