Example sentences of "[pron] be [prep] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not really worried about it to be honest I 'm not worried about any of them , I thought I would actually be erm I 'm actually , we 're under a lot of pressure at the moment but I 'm not actually , usually when I 'm like that it 's all gone I tend to say well forget about it and you know run away from it kind of thing , |
| 2 | To this he calmly replied , with more charity than I deserved : ‘ Well , you should have seen what I was like before I became one ! ’ |
| 3 | And it 's obvious , is n't it , that certain people simply have n't a clue as to where you are at or what makes you tick . |
| 4 | so he goes oh if she 's at and he goes ah right , right |
| 5 | I get her head and you know Beetlejuice when he goes I got ta show you it cos sometimes she 's , she 's not alert and when she 's like that it looks wicked cos he goes and her ears are like that she goes and I get her to play the banjo and she goes it 's wicked ! |
| 6 | Well then Fred said she is after but you got another girl . |
| 7 | Breeze talked away for all she was worth as she cut bread-and-butter in the draughty old kitchen , but she knew that her sister was n't really listening . |
| 8 | So once we 're through that we need to be able to say okay , if there is a significant shift in the mix of work , then we need to be able to quantify exactly what that is . |
| 9 | Like the woman said there , there seems to be a lot of help for people who are on drugs , and who then want to come off them , but the after-care service seems to be you know , a lot erm , there 's not a lot help for the people , they get the help to come off the drugs and then they 're put back into the society that they are from and they seem to still have that pressure to go back to where they were previously . |
| 10 | I would think they 're more trouble than they 're worth unless you 've got |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't really want to imagine what they were like but I know it 's not an intense thing for him to do like Platoon was . |
| 12 | I said it 's for when you 've got a blunt dart and you sharpen it . |
| 13 | what it 's for if you want one ? |
| 14 | With Caliban it 's as if somebody made him drink a whole bottle of whisky . |
| 15 | In that trance-like state we drift apart , still staring , but when I turn aside it 's as if we snapped a silken cord . |
| 16 | And when a tune like that comes along , it 's as if they 've always known that song , and so then you tap in the song and that 's why you 're doing the record . |
| 17 | It 's as if they have a life of their own . ’ |
| 18 | But when Gilbert sighs ‘ They give us names like paedophile , racist — all the names you can imagine ’ , it 's as if they wonder what all the fuss is about . |
| 19 | It 's as if they think there 's something wrong with me . |
| 20 | It 's as if they think I 'm really Firmin and then from time to time I just pretend to be this white man called Charlie . |
| 21 | ‘ The clubs have that much power over players it 's as if they own them , and this is n't good for the game in the North . |
| 22 | It 's as if he painted an outline — there 's a hollow here , and here — like a tail … and a head round there , like a kind of head , striped just here … and you 've got the blue — and — it looks something like a foot … |
| 23 | It 's as if he vanished . |
| 24 | He 's just not there any longer ; and it 's as if he 'd never been , for none of the things he said are heard any longer either ; it 's a bad dream , and the Leader does n't have to sleep through it any more . ’ |
| 25 | It 's as if he 'd just had a snort of it . |
| 26 | It 's as if he knew . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ It 's as if he knows one bad performance will result in him being dropped by Graham . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's as if he 's been wiped off the face of the earth ! ’ |
| 29 | It 's as if he has heroically outlined himself , Lee thought , become the most significant member of the group . |
| 30 | It 's as if he has been drawn outside himself by indignation ; transcended himself ; literally risen into the air above his own head , so that he can see beyond the confines of his own life . |