Example sentences of "[be] a [noun sg] i [vb base] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're smart , they 're a bit I do n't like those they go slippy slidey all over the place with those but these are nice . |
| 2 | When Dorothea can not admire the sort of painting her uncle likes to praise — ‘ They are a language I do not understand ’ — Mr Brooke attributes her inability to defective education . |
| 3 | If you are a teacher I do not ask you to believe or take on trust anything I say . |
| 4 | I 've changed so much , she thought ; I 'm a person I do n't know any more . |
| 5 | When I 'm a home I feel best in pullovers and sweatpants or jeans . |
| 6 | tends to be a bit I do n't know se dictorial |
| 7 | Yeah well on what people have said I I think that er there 's a possibility that er if Stuart and myself get together with the officers concerned that we if these trees are pruned and trimmed as they they 're saying they 're over overgrown at the moment surely that would cut them down in size and if they 're regular pruned every so many years they wo n't they wo n't be a nuisance I do n't think in future years . |
| 8 | I do n't SEE WHy people grope us together as holigans 'cos we ai n't alright you get troble makers in every facktion But They do nt publish it if a niggeR does a old Biddy do they give us a faiR chance will someone as for stop being a SKIN I do nt think I will . ’ |
| 9 | Being a photographer I understand how photographers can manipulate a situation ; I understand the game . |
| 10 | ( That 's a voice I do n't know . |
| 11 | There 's , there 's another thing I , another thing I 'd like to mention which Chris has n't mentioned this afternoon is , that is that a lot of the pamphlets that you are handed out here , generate from 's office , copying and things like that , all very helpful , which would cost us a bomb outside , and we get them free , so you know , they , they do help the pensioner a great deal that 's why I said when she came in that 's a lady I admire very much and respect , cos she 's very good to pensioners . |
| 12 | There 's a few thirties and there 's a couple I think probably in their forties but when it comes to the high impact they do n't do it they just step it out you know . |
| 13 | I said oh , it 's a pity I have n't then . |
| 14 | Oh the pictures , it 's a pity I have n't got some . |
| 15 | Erm and it 's quite , you know and it 's a subject I 've never done before |
| 16 | ‘ You 're very welcome to bring your friends home to tea — if it 's a day I do n't work . ’ |
| 17 | It 's a bit I do n't know |
| 18 | Now there 's a name I 've always liked . |
| 19 | Oh it 's a job I do n't know ! weekend a day or two ago he did look a bit better tonight . |
| 20 | Well I , I 'd never thought of taking anything like that until she said , cos I , well you never pay , it 's all new to me , I have n't done it before and she said oh no she said we take these small tins of stuff with us and er make our sandwiches , cos there 's a supermarket I believe not far from there |
| 21 | There 's a lot I do n't understand — like , how come Jenner picked such a remote and inaccessible spot for his labs ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ There 's a lot I do n't know , is n't there , Isabel . ’ |
| 23 | The power to choose , the power to choose , well if the power to choose in politics is about the Labour Party choosing their own candidate for the by-election and then the National Party replacing that candidate , well that 's a Party I do n't want to be a party to and that 's nothing that we would ever stoop |
| 24 | Well he still looks young , I mean despite the fact that he 's a grandfather I think twice over |
| 25 | To me the small group of birds on the sand-spit looked just like little terns , but it is a bird I have never seen in Shetland , so I am not familiar with it . |
| 26 | It is a river I know well , but a stretch I have never fished before , and when I see it I wonder why . |
| 27 | As Dussie Nell Davis , a US majorette coach , commented almost twenty years ago , ‘ Sex is a word I have never used with my girls and I never will . |
| 28 | He is a man I like enormously . |
| 29 | It is a relief I suppose today , that I am able to speak to you on the basis erm of financial output which is a good deal more favourable than we expected even six months ago . |
| 30 | This is a question I have often asked . |