Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] be [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No-one has been on this path for two days . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ A good dealer gives a service — everything I sell is in perfect condition and I buy back my stuff if need be . ’ |
| 3 | Tagalog concepts are directly relevant to the present discussion because the Buid with whom I lived are in daily contact with Tagalog speaking immigrants from neighbouring islands . |
| 4 | And as for Leeds , the only boys I met were at teenage dances . |
| 5 | They occur more commonly , and surgery is more frequently practised upon them ; but what I say is of equal relevance to female-to-male transsexuals . |
| 6 | Which I suggest is after that workshop . |
| 7 | I 'd a lump on my head the size of a goose egg ; I 'd been through some kind of hell in the spaces ; I 'd prayed for … it was not what I 'd prayed for at all . |
| 8 | I 'd been to thirteen convents but I had n't really been to school properly because I was working by the time I was thirteen . |
| 9 | Yes that 's how that 's how it was , yes all I was on that gate , I 'd been on that gate myself dozens of times . |
| 10 | I 'd been at that school for two terms , eight months at the most . |
| 11 | ‘ If I 'd been in cold sobriety I would never have married her . |
| 12 | I 'd been in this business long enough to know he was lying and that something was going on . ’ |
| 13 | After I 'd been in three years , I got married . |
| 14 | They all put in their tenpenny 's worth about what they thought should be filmed , but nobody asked my opinion , and I 'd been in more films than the rest of the cast put together . |
| 15 | Most of the photographs I receive are of unsaleable objects , with a smattering from the lunatic fringe such as the lady from Virginia who wanted to sell the handcuffs used to detain Charles Manson when he was first arrested . |
| 16 | I hated being on social security and I tried everywhere for a job . |
| 17 | I remember being at primary school and the boys went to play football and you sat in the corner playing talking or the boys played football and the girls , would you believe it , got sex education ! |
| 18 | I remember being in one time , with both ends in , like I were talking about , and we have n't got a road out , we Matter of fact we were trying to break through to another district . |
| 19 | I now wish to consider something that I believe is of acute importance to every Member of the House and to millions of people beyond it — the negotiations in which we are currently engaged on the intergovernmental conferences . |
| 20 | Well Boris Yeltsin this morning has said that he wants a veto over the use of nuclear weapons and about ninety percent of which I think are on Russian soil , that perhaps can be interpreted , additional safeguard to have another veto . |
| 21 | I said do n't hold your breath Elaine but if it 's what I think 's in that carrier bag over there it ai n't a voucher , cos they all were saying |
| 22 | It is his recognition that projected activities draw upon a distinctly different kind of energy ( and I include emotional response ) from non-projected activity that I think is of fundamental importance . |
| 23 | Eddie I think is worth sheer sort of opening teams up . |
| 24 | Well we 've had a go well I think it was for erm some sort of I think was for multiple sclerosis |
| 25 | The piece I did is on one side , and on the other is a piece by The Kronos Quartet , called Different Trains . ’ |
| 26 | one I did was with Caledonian Paper at Irvine and the Finns or the Swedes whoever own |
| 27 | My family and I have been subjected to unprovoked stone-throwing and spitting by gangs of youths who I presume are from right wing groups . |
| 28 | A lot of the places where Ann and I fish are in remote locations . |
| 29 | I had been along this track many times , and this was the first occasion on which I hesitated to pass the rocks . |
| 30 | I had been at great pains to appear distant towards him and been more successful than I had thought I could be . |