Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] [be] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm just telling you how it is for a struggling garden designer , that 's all . ’ |
| 2 | Accordingly , one winter 's day when I was at a suitable jumping-off place in America , I decided to see if I could find him . |
| 3 | In short , whereas there is not the possibility of using an argument from analogy to answer factual questions about time on the Sun , there is the possibility when it comes to people 's feelings , and so , being predisposed by the second reason to think that there is some sort of connection between moaning and the pain-language , we naturally fall into the trap of confusing valid fact-establishing arguments from analogy with invalid meaning-establishing ones , and produce the well-known argument that I am , in general , justified in applying ‘ mental ’ language to other people by the fact that they behave as I do when I 'm in a certain state of mind . |
| 4 | Such as Agnes and Flora , two " unknowns " who sent her a postcard because they had seen her on " telly " and were sorry to hear she was poorly ; eighty-year-old Phoebe who kept them awake one night when she was in a distressed state ; the flower lover who treated the ward as a potting shed taking clippings from the various plants ; the " blether " of women she was invited to join round one of the beds when she was fit enough to take a short walk . |
| 5 | really hate is when you 're on a crowded train and you 're all getting on the train and someone else who 's getting off lights up a cigarette and |
| 6 | Of course , I despised myself for despising them for showing such genuine and unselfish emotions , but that 's just one of the things you have to get used to when you 're in a serious self-destruction spiral . |
| 7 | They had met eight months before in Houston where she was on a promotional tour for her Budgie books . |
| 8 | The vital thing to do is to make sure that the reader understands why you are including a particular piece of information . |
| 9 | Which is why you are in a secret office here and not at police headquarters . |
| 10 | ‘ So this is why you were in a brown study for most of the journey into Hastings , ’ she said almost accusingly . |
| 11 | Sometimes when they were in a needy mood , which was most of the time , David would be out in the lobby at Advision Studios where we were recording , and they would be cuddling and cooing and wooing — it was disgusting . |
| 12 | Not when they were in a public place and surrounded by other people . |
| 13 | The plots were essentially the same ; like any successful entrepreneur , Alger knew when he was onto a good thing . |
| 14 | They always reminded me of an angry boar 's , small , red-rimmed and vicious — and that 's when he was in a good mood ! |
| 15 | That 's why he was in a white jacket ( I remember that you said he looked like a phoney dentist in a toothpaste ad ) . |