Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adj] [coord] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An article on consciousness was cheekily headed , ‘ I am conscious and you probably are , too … ‘ |
| 2 | ‘ I am 66 and I really want to retire . |
| 3 | I have bought Practical PC since it first came out in an attempt to help with the strange world of computers and from reading it I think I might need a 286 or 386 PC — but how can I be sure and I still have n't the foggiest idea what most of the terminology means . |
| 4 | ‘ Maybe I 'm perverse but I never plan a picture . |
| 5 | No I 'm sorry but they really were like that when I went to Kent . |
| 6 | I 'm sorry but I just do n't want a relationship right now . |
| 7 | I 'm sorry but I just ca n't support this view , what about pride , team confidence ( just imagine what this victory would do to that — considering , correct me if I 'm wrong , but the 3 sides we have beaten away from home are shit , and we have also been on a crap run recently ) , and not to mention a place in Europe — this is a 2nd place 6 pointer . |
| 8 | I 'm sorry but I just think that is outrageous ! |
| 9 | I 'm sorry but I really ca n't allow you to talk about Square in the middle of a paper on . |
| 10 | I do n't know I 'm sure but he never mentioned it anyway . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm sick but I still think I 've done the right thing . |
| 12 | I 'm 23 and I desperately want a baby . |
| 13 | I was impressed and it also gave me a lot of momentum for the album . |
| 14 | Ah now you think about it , I mean there was this question in our maths test and I was chatting to him in the dinner queue about it and I was going yeah it was this and he goes oh you 're probably right and he was agreeing with me and I found out later that I was wrong but he still agreed with me . |
| 15 | I wish I was wrong and I still had my pension . |
| 16 | Er and I was told that I was n't entitled to any money anyway because I was self-employed and I only paid the stamp . |
| 17 | There are schemes here and there which are excellent but they simply do n't address the magnitude of the crisis . |
| 18 | A substantial amount of information which is necessary and which indeed was asked for by members of your I believe at a previous oral question time erm as to the number that were printed you may be shocked to know that one hundred copies were made which means that the total cost of this , I think you will agree , very worthwhile public information , was four hundred and sixty one pounds and twenty one pence . |
| 19 | As fuel costs are racing ahead of inflation , will the Minister enter into immediate discussions with the Secretary of State for Energy and the fuel industry to examine the standing charge , which is iniquitous and which adversely affects low-income families , and pensioners in particular ? |
| 20 | one wonders which was real and which only a reflection . |
| 21 | This would seem to invite an invidious comparison between white youth who are unemployed and their more successful black peers . |
| 22 | Then somebody and I , and I gun shots so you are dead but I still have the weapon . |
| 23 | I took Gabriel into myself and loved him more than myself and maybe you 're right and I just ca n't let him go , but it 's not like that , Philippa , I swear it , it 's something else , a force — something wonderful if only I were n't so alone with it , something terrible unless I learn to understand it . |
| 24 | If I analyse the bosses I 've worked for , the ones who irritated me the most were the ones who were indecisive and who constantly asked for more information just to delay making a decision . |
| 25 | You were available but you later on wo n't be . |
| 26 | ‘ Like a 32-year-old , ’ adds Derry , ‘ one of your mum 's old mates who always used to come round your house when you were young and you always fancied her and she starts coming on to you later — ‘ Oh year ! |
| 27 | She 's seventy and she only stopped hunting last season because she 's got arthritis in her wrist . |
| 28 | That 's cos she 's lonely and she just wanders about . |
| 29 | ‘ But she 's wrong and I just know I 'm right , ’ he vowed . |
| 30 | None is satisfactory but none really corresponds to Morgan 's , Engels 's and Marx 's theory , with the possible exception of that presented by M. Fried , an American anthropologist , who argues that stratification , is at least , a ‘ necessary pre-condition ’ of the State [ Fried , 1967 ] . |