Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [pron] [be] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know but I 'm still not wandering around for hours I 'm warning you now ! |
| 2 | ‘ We had a band chat and for ages we were saying we should not do merchandising at all , because it is a sign that you are a really big band and that you are trying to cash in . |
| 3 | It provides a positive experience for prisoners who 're serving their time . |
| 4 | ‘ The handicapped reach out to us in simplicity and trust … rejecting them we create a cynical selfish world for us to live in … we are walking a path which after Nuremberg it was said we would never be walking again , ’ she said to loud applause and a standing ovation . |
| 5 | Straight after registration we 're doing it ? |
| 6 | King James continued in the series of follies which were to lose him his throne , including the consecration of a papal nuncio in St James 's Chapel , the replacement of Protestant officers by Catholics in the army , and the creation of an Ecclesiastical Commission with wide and illegal disciplinary powers . |
| 7 | I was at a dinner other night , er where er French Railways were the hosts , and of course they were doing their best to er tell everybody to travel through the Tunnel naturally enough , because that 's what their trains will be doing come May , and er one or two people , it must be said , were just a touch sceptical . |
| 8 | ‘ Of course we 're giving them ! |
| 9 | And of course he 's showing us Adam 's failure to follow . |
| 10 | I mean I w when I was dropping dead with exhaustion one evening I said to him look Tony , the there 's I 've cooked a chicken , there 's a big chicken cooling on the table and there there were red sauce , potatoes , gravy , I said , stick the lot on a plate a micro and , you know , film it over , microwave it oh well I sha n't bother to eat anything now of course he was paying me for his food |
| 11 | They rushed out into Regent 's Park — out of earshot — and Simon told her , yes of course he was forcing her hand , it was blackmail : he did love her so , she was the right one for him and he 'd take her tomorrow on five hundred pounds , if someone would lend them to him , and he did rather fancy himself as a married man at twenty-one . |
| 12 | And who of course you 're leaving it to . |
| 13 | Oh of course you were telling me , aye . |
| 14 | We still charge the same interest rate that the bank would do because of course it 's costing us that from from the bank on our own funds . |
| 15 | It , it was a two bedroom old cottage it was , very , very nice with a big garden and all I had was erm one room downstairs and like er a kitchen , well er where the sink and that was it was more like a big room where the kitchen was and the two bedrooms upstairs , but only a door on one bedroom , you went up the stairs into a big open room you know where the bannisters all round you know what I mean , no door on it and just , another door , a bedroom door , that 's all but I loved it you know it was a nice erm , not bad , but of course it was condemned it got so old and then they pulled it down and they built another house on it right next to where erm that shooting took pla you know they was having that shooting night just down that lane where I used to be |
| 16 | It 's a unique opportunity to do something really strong for the sake of the restoration of my citizenship , while at the same time by that of course I 'm doing something for the human rights of every single citizen in Czechoslovakia . |
| 17 | ‘ Of course I 'm missing him . ’ |
| 18 | I was cleaning , cleaning it up and of course I was tapping it with a hammer was n't I to try and get all the putty you know , try and break the putty and most of it came away and I just tapped this one little |
| 19 | Except , that , except that of course I was doing everything for everybody . |
| 20 | There are , however , hints in The Middlemen of the modes of narration which are to replace what is so brutally disposed of at the end of the tale . |
| 21 | The scientists pounded after her as she hurtled out on to the open floor , almost bumping into a pair of guards who were doing their rounds . |
| 22 | AN ANIMAL SOUND , like a bull in tumescence , was intruding in the helmet , a yowling , roaring noise , audible even above the roar of the engine behind my shoulders and the rush of wind which was buffeting them . |
| 23 | A pessimistic interpretation of the findings based on this approach was that the visual cortex had nothing to do with vision , since few , if any , cells in that part of the brain showed any interest in spots of light they were presenting them with . |
| 24 | It was at the little house that she shared with Ella that Dimity received the proposal of marriage which was to change her life . |
| 25 | I looked round to find Karen standing in the centre of a group of businessmen who were eyeing her up and down in a blatantly sexual way . |
| 26 | right well if we have n't got the decision then by the thirty first of January you 're agreed we can offer one job to from ? |
| 27 | In a singing community of his peers he comes alive and discovers a sense of membership which is denied him elsewhere : all the more reason to embrace the slightly devilish and glamorous identity which is thrown at you by ‘ them ’ and sing along , ‘ We are the famous football hooligans ! ’ |
| 28 | I 've I 've got a , a piece of this , this stuff I I bought it a piece sort of square they were selling it off cheap |
| 29 | His last words were : " Bury me in my uniform " , and as he lay in the chapel of rest he was wearing his familiar pullover , yellow shirt and blue crash helmet . |
| 30 | People can hold on to seven plus or minus two bits of information and the plus or minus two he called the local factors which are you know whether it 's warm out whether you feel warm or cold or whether or what time of day it is have you just had a heavy lunch whatever it might be . |