Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [verb] [prep] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am thinking in particular of the spirit that came upon Saul and drove him mad ( 1 Sam 16:14–23 ) . |
| 2 | I am thinking in particular of the return of those who have been forced to flee abroad , such as Mr. Oginga Odinga , free access to the press , access to the media generally during the campaign , and some form of international supervision by monitors such as those under the auspices of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association . |
| 3 | I am thinking in particular of disabled students and students with children . |
| 4 | But whereas Eleanor Bowen once used drawing as a means of recording for posterity what was immediately in front of her eyes , I am thinking in particular of those powerfully smudged charcoal drawings of the interior of Darlington Railway Station nowadays she goes far beyond this to evoke the feelings of considerable ill and unease . |
| 5 | I am waiting for quiet from everyone . |
| 6 | I 'm thinking of Extreme in particular . |
| 7 | I 'm thinking in particular about the end of the solo on Do n't Stop and the solo on The Chain , both from ‘ Rumours ’ . |
| 8 | ( I 'm reminded of Grand in Camus ' La Peste who spent a life-time refining the opening sentence of his novel ! ) |
| 9 | Therefore I was bound by certain of its manners and rules . |
| 10 | And that 's what you 're taught in electrical in electronics . |
| 11 | But the Capron you 're talking about worked for MI6 , not MI5 . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ A year ago we were told that Laura was dying today she is running about full of energy and looking great . ’ |
| 13 | She was loved in vain by W. B. Yeats [ q.v . ] . |
| 14 | A seventeen year old girl was seriously injured when the stolen car she was riding in crashed into a tree . |
| 15 | The principles of inference by which we are to move from basic to non-basic beliefs are fallible , in the sense that they take us sometimes from true beliefs to false ones . |
| 16 | There 's a little tiny bit to tinker with , but it 's not if we were to , we , we 're canvassing at pressed about altering the length of the lunchtime break to break it down from an hour and a half and an hour and a quarter to an hour and a quarter to an hour which is being we would save some money on not paying our |
| 17 | Erm , and now we 're trying to side-track into , just pile everything on to him , he loves it , he thinks it 's wonderful . |
| 18 | We 're going to happy until five at this rate . |
| 19 | One night when there was an air raid alert on , and we were trying in vain to sleep through the usual ‘ noises off ’ , mainly the big anti-aircraft guns situated it seemed at the end of the garden , there was suddenly the most appalling crash immediately over our heads . |
| 20 | Now if we get back to what we were talking about due to today so then you do a bit more and then it 's back to the sort of really . |
| 21 | At present special requests have to be submitted and justified if calls are to be made ; they are made in the presence of an officer and they are charged at far in excess of the ‘ normal ’ rate because of the need to ask the operator to ring back with the cost — for which a surcharge is made . |
| 22 | That they are going from bad to worse . |
| 23 | They are driven to cunning in order to buy the materials they need for their work … they are vain , envious and antagonistic to writers ‘ who are really their best friends , who control the public and try to bring it to a greater state of culture which will offer the artists great subject for their work … |
| 24 | They 're handed on complete to every generation and they have their effects in every generation . |
| 25 | We have tried to list the connections existing across contributions in this discourse fragment to emphasise the ways speakers make what they 're talking about fit into a framework which represents what we ( as discourse participants ) are talking about in conversational discourse . |
| 26 | Yeah they go in and they 're laughing they 're l they 're laughing like mad for so long and it 's so funny . |
| 27 | They were attacked at random by hundreds of armed men . |
| 28 | Two people were taken to hospital with cuts and facial bruises after the car they were travelling in smashed into a road sign on the A1 western bypass at Lobley Hill , Gateshead , yesterday . |
| 29 | Apparently the private jet they were travelling in crashed into the side of a mountain in thick fog . ’ |
| 30 | Fifty three women were on a WI outing to Denman College at Abingdon in Oxfordshire when the coach they were travelling in crashed into the back of a truck . |