Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [noun sg] be [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mother was unaware of how much time and attention a young child required as she herself had a very deprived childhood in the West Indies where her role was as a maid to help her mother bring up her brothers and sisters . |
| 2 | The tapes and conversation details will all become completely anonymous no one will know who 's used the words or whose voice are on the tapes together they will provide a permanent record of how the English language is spoken in the nineteen nineties we 'll go down in posterity , eh ? |
| 3 | Gloucester 's immediate influence was mainly restricted to the edges of the county : to the lordship of Clitheroe in the east and to Furness in the north — both areas where his influence was in a sense overspill from more substantial interests elsewhere . |
| 4 | Gloucester 's immediate influence was mainly restricted to the edges of the county : to the lordship of Clitheroe in the east and to Furness in the north — both areas where his influence was in a sense overspill from more substantial interests elsewhere . |
| 5 | Schofield found them a rehearsal room at Middleton Cricket Club where his father was on the committee . |
| 6 | When the AA van arrived they informed him they could not take his car home unless he or his girlfriend were in the recovery van . |
| 7 | If you do n't have a spare or your spare is of the wrong type this does n't mean that you ca n't fit an extra drive . |
| 8 | ‘ I am so busy that my brain is in a complete jumble . |
| 9 | You know , they should be pitied , because , there is no way that my life is inside a ring binder . |
| 10 | Did I mention , by the way , that my money was on the Croat to win the Men 's Singles ? |
| 11 | There is nothing that the dog could do that could express the difference between the two thoughts : ‘ My master is at the door ’ and ‘ I am thinking that my master is at the door ’ . |
| 12 | He argued that I can not know that my diary is in the ( closed ) bottom drawer of my desk unless I have reason to believe that my experience makes that proposition probable ; we can suppose , perhaps , that my relevant experience is that I remember having put the diary there five minutes ago and that I do not remember having touched the drawer since , together with my general knowledge of the consistent behaviour of the experienced world . |
| 13 | Does Dr Starkie 's reading of Madame Bovary contain all the responses which I have when I read the book , and then add a whole lot more , so that my reading is in a way pointless ? |
| 14 | I do know that my sister is in the hands of the only person who can perform this highly skilled operation , and that he is someone who saw fit to increase his patient 's fears at a time when she most needed reassurance . |
| 15 | ‘ I want to assure you that my concern is for the future happiness of your granddaughter and I will do all within my power to provide the necessary support . ’ |
| 16 | I hit the door handle and did a dip and shuffle so that my head was below the knife slash arc and made an undignified but unscathed exit , taking the keys with me . |
| 17 | Because I was joking I 'd said to her erm about er , you know my daddy right is er you know , th right , you know mum and daddy lived in Edinburgh and I was saying that my daddy was about the fees in erm Gleneagles , my daddy 's er , a member of Gleneagles |
| 18 | I saw that my house was on the worst side of the island . |
| 19 | I lose track of where I am and all I know is that my baby is on the other side of the world . |
| 20 | I learnt later that it was the island of Trinidad , and that my island was in the mouth of the River Orinoco on the north coast of South America . |
| 21 | While you will doubtless be quick to retaliate about the scrupulous judging procedure , please note that my observation was about the ‘ appropriateness ’ of the situation , particularly to outsiders . |
| 22 | My subject was French history , and although my focus was on a relatively obscure piece of ecclesiastical history I had the good fortune to work with the most genial and scholarly of humanists , Professor Alfred Cobban of the University of London . |
| 23 | The other lure of Tuscany is that its history is on the surface . |
| 24 | Although the accounts were concise , the print was too small , and because of some confusion over the treatment of the initial endowment under covenant , the judges later decided that its turnover was over the £1m maximum for the category . |
| 25 | She had no way of knowing it was the same man who had interrogated Madeleine , then made her his mistress , any more than Madeleine could know that her friend was in the building being interrogated by him . |
| 26 | Certainly the driver seemed satisfied enough , she accorded with relief as with a smile he pointed to an illuminated notice indicating that her hotel was at the end of a narrow passageway leading from the main street . |
| 27 | They found Bertha in a slightly drowsy state that signified drugs were keeping severe pain at bay , while a long bulge beneath the bedclothes indicated that her leg was in a plaster cast . |
| 28 | If you live round the corner from Mary Whitehouse could you pop in and tell her that her phone is off the hook she has n't replaced the receiver and she she 's quite an elderly lady and I would would be terribly upset if if she had n't got her phone back cos she might need it for emergencies or something like that and I am a caring concerned person so could you could you pop round the corner to Mary 's house and tell her that she has n't put her phone on the hook off the hook properly could you do that ? |
| 29 | Herbert or Algy or Whatever — the very same who had said ( how original ! ) that her skin was like a peach … |
| 30 | Mira herself makes several appearances , both in the first and the third persons , before also discovering that her name is on the list as the delegate from Amalgamemnon , whereupon she too ‘ dies ’ . |