Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [coord] [pron] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That would be loss enough if I watched him go with only longing for him in my heart but there is instead a bitterness because he is happy to go life there being preferable to here where there is only his tired wife for company . |
| 2 | But in the severe turbulence that I encountered I had no control over my canopy and there was very little that I could do . |
| 3 | She is my responsibility and I am merely suggesting that you may want to go home . |
| 4 | My Mum and I are now the very best of friends , not really like mother and son . |
| 5 | I walked to school with my mum and it was very cold and windy day . |
| 6 | However , a couple of days later I moved into my bungalow and it was quite a job . |
| 7 | My sister and me are very close , so this woman gave me a giro to go to my sister 's — they took me to the station and put me on the train . |
| 8 | It got rather nasty — at one point my sister and I were actually playing tug-of-war with a vase — and ended with us rowing about which of us was his favourite . |
| 9 | ‘ Fenella 's my sister and I 'm very fond of her . |
| 10 | ‘ All that has happened to me has helped open my eyes and I am still young enough to put the past firmly behind me . ’ |
| 11 | Look , I was looking for my pen and it was there all along . |
| 12 | My crew were never aware of my lapse and I am just as ashamed to tell this story today as I would had I told it 45 years ago . |
| 13 | It 's not actually any of my business and I 'm half regretting I said anything . |
| 14 | Realizing that my opponent and I were safely separated , I struggled violently , hurling threats and abuse at the poor boy , while praying that my large saviour would n't let go of me . |
| 15 | ‘ So I invited them into my room and I was just coming to fetch you , Miss Hardbroom . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Now I 've been told that I 've lost my place and I 'm very disappointed . ’ |
| 17 | It was all at my fingertips and I was only too pleased to be of some assistance , from whatever quarter the request came . |
| 18 | A wife in Shrewsbury said : ‘ My husband and I are both cynical about the monopoly of funeral directors and their sincerity . |
| 19 | MY husband and I are both disabled and 77 years of age . |
| 20 | My husband and I are very worried about AIDS and we are wondering if the children are at risk , let alone our daughter , who says she and our son-in-law led a normal married life until he dropped this bombshell . |
| 21 | ‘ Only a rose — ’ I began as I held out my offering to my husband and I was just about to start on the second line when a Yorkshire pudding with onion gravy flew past my head and stuck with a plop on the ceiling . |
| 22 | Both my husband and I were strictly brought up and , if we were naughty , were beaten . |
| 23 | My husband and I were very angry to receive from M.S.W. to contribute to Africa and Asia to assist their water flow , when just down the road from our house the same company had caused the flood meadows to dry up . |
| 24 | I felt even more fearful than usual faced with this clever inquisitive boy who showed no further desire to undo my blouse and who was only interested in the incongruity of my relationship with Syl . |
| 25 | I wanted it last weekend because I was gon na see my friend but she 's like ill in hospital because she fell out of a cookie jar |
| 26 | My wife and I are just good friends . |
| 27 | ‘ My wife and I are immensely grateful to the president for his warm words of welcome , ’ he said , and later referred to the princess 's role as president of the Royal Academy of Music . |
| 28 | ‘ My wife and I are both from Yorkshire and I have spent my whole career up in the north . ’ |
| 29 | I must n't keep you away from her , but will you tell her that my wife and I are very concerned ? |
| 30 | My wife and I are very conscious of the very high honour that you have bestowed upon us and I must also thank my Party for proposing , and you all for electing , me to the office of Lord Mayor for the Metropolitan City of . |