Example sentences of "[be] [art] [noun] [conj] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It must have been the noise that woke me up , ’ Jessamy retorted sarcastically . |
| 2 | It may have been the horse that roused me from my sleep . |
| 3 | ‘ These are the songs I grew up listening to , ’ she says , ‘ they are the songs that made me want to be a singer . ’ |
| 4 | Had it just been a dream or had I really shrunk ? |
| 5 | ‘ I would never have been a dancer or believed I could do anything if it had not been for him , ’ said Crawford . |
| 6 | She arched and twisted with pleasure before calling , ‘ Peter , be a love and pass me my sponge-bag , would you ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ But this is the bit that took me longest to work out . |
| 8 | Because I find that er I can talk to people now , we chat away as I would in a pub , or in someone 's house but then this is the bit that worries me . |
| 9 | This is the space that fascinated me so much , because that is what early Cubist painting was , a research into space . ’ |
| 10 | This is the experiment and experience I commend to any business man or industrialist who wants to meet the challenge of the ideological crisis of our times . |
| 11 | Aloud , she said : ‘ I have your mother 's book on the Camisards as well , of course — that is the period that interests me particularly — but I want to learn about more recent history as well . ’ |
| 12 | Weak form : ‘ The price is the thing that annoys me ’ |
| 13 | and like the thing is obviously like the first realise there on a and they try to stop it , why are you stopping for , remember you are in the British army , if you disobey orders you 'll get a court marshall really started laying onto them , and like they 've started again and like the first bloke obviously got to the fucking water , cos he 's stopped again , one man one sides shouting out and round the other side shouting out and they have they 've all gone in , they must of thought fuck it and they 've all just fucking marched into the sea , and we marched them in , tent was only about that much above water , and we 've lasted thought , this is the thing that got me , he , he shouted at him , cos we , we , we managed to get them and that , he said right , right , go in , go in and tell them to come out , what , I said what , can you just pop in and tell them to come out , I said over here sarge , he said you disobey an order |
| 14 | Well this is the thing that worries me a little bit , but can I say |
| 15 | You see this is the thing that worries me because , you know , when I stand up and say I like what John Dreyfus did and I think his looks very good and I maintain the traditions of the Oxford University Press , I can suddenly feel that I 'm being typecast as being in the English tradition of typography as a revered art and the Morrisonian thing and the whole thing separate from , you know , a culture within a culture and a separate thing . |
| 16 | ‘ But it 's the publicity that worries me . |
| 17 | But erm I I do n't , still do n't see from this how we 're going to look at the underlying systems because it 's the system that concerns me . |
| 18 | It 's the stillness that fills me with peace . |
| 19 | It 's the arm that worries me . |
| 20 | LADY DAVERS : Aye , that 's the thing that kills me , [ calmly to PAMELA , a last , vicious attack ] have no fear , wench , no fear . |
| 21 | and that , that , that 's the thing that makes me retch , not the cutting , it 's when they just pull it apart |
| 22 | And that , tha , that 's the thing that makes me red , it 's not the cutting it 's when they just pull it apart and it like |
| 23 | ‘ Be a pet and do me up , sweetie . |
| 24 | ‘ It is a question that takes me utterly by surprise as you obviously admire all this . |
| 25 | er and to avoid racking up costs which is a thing that worries me |
| 26 | It is a process that allows me to locate myself in a space , to understand a space in terms of my physical movement . |
| 27 | But it was the vultures that fascinated me . |
| 28 | It was the cold that forced me to move . |
| 29 | There was a lot of tooth-sucking for a while as he tried to get me to say more and that was almost funny , given that it was the tooth-sucking that made me think of it in the first place , suddenly thinking . |
| 30 | It was the gin that surprised me . |