Example sentences of "[be] and [conj] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | I know exactly who I am and where I stand in the world . |
2 | He led them at a smart pace along the path where the railway had been and though they grumbled about the branches scratching their legs his sister and his brothers followed him . |
3 | On the contrary , the study of the humanities is essential to society as a whole , since ‘ the humanities are concerned with a truthful understanding of where we are and where we come from ’ . |
4 | ‘ We do n't known what you are and where you come from . |
5 | Well that was fourteen minutes so you 've got fifteen minutes to ask questions of John , and it would help , I think , if you want to ask a question , to stand up and say who you are and where you come from , which constituency . |
6 | which we need to be and once we get into the rhythm I 'm sure it 'll all be a lot easier but you seem to have a calmness about your how you speak which is good and you know I 'm sure I 'll go to pieces but erm yeah it was just , and what I 've picked up on as you say where it 's er how did you come to Friends Provident bum de bum de bum , we 're going through erm a structured erm spiel if you like and then they 're saying well I do n't really wan na give you any you know , recommendations at this moment and erm what we should do there is , is I suppose apack that is n't it ? |
7 | ‘ We shouted back , trying to explain who we were and where we came from . |
8 | It will be your responsibility to organise any rehearsals scheduled for the day of the performance , making sure that teams know what time their slot is and that they keep to it . |
9 | Most importantly , Rita , just as she makes her own diagnosis , knows — unlike the professionals — exactly what the ‘ shock ’ is and that it comes from somewhere : |
10 | Laughter is the same language the world over , and the sense of pride and group identity which is engendered when a group tells another about who it is and where they came from is a critical factor in the cementation of the group and fostering of indigenous skills . |
11 | ‘ I told him the first thing he has to do is establish who she is and where she comes from . ’ |
12 | Again , if you go back before about eighteen hundred , if you look at er if you look at art , you find that painters paint things entitled The Rape of Europa , The Rape of , The Rape of whoever it is and if you look at these pictures it 's just people lounging around with not very many clothes on . |
13 | or any other type of office development except that which is and as I said in response to the point Professor Lock was making , it does not include town centre type |
14 | Like everyone else in the village , he knew who she was and where she came from . |
15 | Tomorrow , she assured herself , as she brushed her teeth , she would wake up with total recall of who she was and where she came from . |