Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [vb mod] [be] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 I would n't dare eat them I 'd be in a terrible state .
2 As the campaign proceeded , I kept quiet as I began to have a vision of some grisly post-polling day ceremony in which I would be on a platform like a performance artist from the sixties , vomiting and gagging while attempting to ingest yet another page : ‘ You 're doing okay .
3 I now come to a very controversial point on which I may be in a minority , but I think there is far too much written material with classical CDs .
4 The fact that she is basically thinking in terms of the resurrected , cosmic Christ again tends to minimize any distinction which there might be between a woman and Christ in regard to sex .
5 Well at the moment Mr is not in a position to how shall I put it , withdraw his authority 's commitment or preferred option , they have they have made that decision and short of him convening a memb a meeting of the highways committee between now and whenever , you wo there 's no way in which he would be in a position to withdraw that .
6 If a local compromise between capital and labour is helpful to both accumulation and the standard of living of labour ( which it can be for a time ) , then most factions of the bourgeoisie and the working classes may support it .
7 If he was n't there then I would say that you you 'd be on a sticky wicket , because most terms of employment say that if you er have a driving licence and you lose it then your employment will automatically finish .
8 I got to the Imperial at about half twelve and waited for Mark and co , unfortunately I had told him I would be in a leather and , due to the leather not being available that day I was wearing a lumber jacket !
9 Once we have agreed the contents with him we will be in a position to drawn up a Phase 1 contract in which we intend to concentrate on making the sanctuary wind and watertight that will allow us to begin work on the interior alterations .
10 they they 'd be on a farm if he wants .
11 Well it was n't er the wife it was a bit of a setback , we had a bungalow you see , a small bungalow which was in a very , very nice part of Plymouth , well on the outskirts of Plymouth actually , almost in the country and er , to come and find this , well to her it 'd be like a , a terraced house , her mind went back to the old days in Manchester where she came from with the old terraced houses and I think she visualized that then to go in a house that had a , a square room , do you follow ?
12 To this question the defendant answers ‘ No , ’ because at the time of his neglect the plaintiff was not in existence as a living person , had no separate existence apart from her mother , was not capable of suing to assert a legal right , and was not a legal person to whom he could be under a duty .
13 Ferguson admitted : ‘ If Phelan does not make it I will be in a bit of trouble because I need as many experienced men out there as I can muster . ’
14 The first is that , since it is difficult for each authority to make its decision within the framework of a general view of social needs and social capacity to pay , the total amount of taxation tends to be raised above what it would be in a more unified system .
15 It was decided in the spring of 1892 to repair and rebuild the tower and as the Vicar in his letter puts it " To rebuild as an ornament to the village with a good clock in it , to make the fabric itself what it should be for a wealthy parish such as ours " .
16 It 's cool yet compared to what it will be in a couple of hours ’ time . ’
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