Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [conj] [art] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were as shy as I was and the effort they made to be friendly was the most heartening thing I had experienced since I had been taken prisoner . |
| 2 | You always find wherever you are that the people who 've been there a long time get sort of erm a bit uppity , they think that they 're |
| 3 | ‘ But if you do n't know , how can you be sure when you 're really in love and when you just think you are because the person you 're with is so attractive ? ’ |
| 4 | Having looked at the development and decline of settlements , let us now look at why the settlements are where they are and the patterns they make in the landscape . |
| 5 | They can never realize the parental aspiration other than in a superficial way , and they are left not only with the envy of the sex they were meant to be , but also unable to enjoy the sex which they are and the advantages which pertain to it . |
| 6 | But it must never be forgotten that , if this happens , it happens by accident : it can be no part of the system that pupils should be entered for a test because of the age they are or the class they are part of . |
| 7 | He just reads their mail without them knowing it and the thing that would really appeal to him is that the companies he sets his sights on are actually paying him for delivering it ! ’ |
| 8 | Okay , he 's a I think , then again , sometimes I think why she left him is because the way his , his house is , you see . |
| 9 | Can it be that the tales I heard in Geneva were true ? |
| 10 | But it is n't because of some secret triumph of racism it 's because the claim he 's making has been emptied of meaning . |
| 11 | rhetorical question is , you know is it is that a question you wanted to try to answer or are you erm |
| 12 | It is that a person who takes another 's car ‘ can escape liability to tougher sentences only if he or she can show , on the balance of probabilities , that either the aggravating event occurred before he or she committed [ the basic s. 12 offence ] , or that he or she was not present at the relevant time . ’ |
| 13 | When you come to think about it , how amazing it is that a singer whose recording career lasted only seven years ( where Decca is concerned ) could produce enough material to fill ten CDs even allowing for the addition of much off-the-air material , and excluding Das Lied von der Erde , the Klemperer Kindertotenlieder and Mahler 's Second , and Brahms 's Liebesliederwalzer , the last three just issued on three further discs in Decca 's Historic series . |
| 14 | It is that the person who was best at doing something did n't want to do it — and the person who was available to do it was n't good at it . |
| 15 | They 'd sooner take a job eight to five in a factory , if they can get it , and the worst of it is that the ones who do take it on ca n't find a wife . |
| 16 | The crucial point to notice about it is that the entities whose ‘ fitnesses ’ are being compared are no longer individual organisms , but populations of organisms . |
| 17 | When pupils return to school from the Delphi unit it is because the pupils themselves wish to ( in Roger 's words ‘ the problem solves itself ’ ) or because the staff are anxious to ‘ relieve the pressure ’ in the unit rather than as part of a scheduled policy of reintegration . |
| 18 | So it was that every time I went to see her , she would run forward and stand , head on one side , looking like a little robin , waiting for her kiss . |
| 19 | And so it was that a man who had tried his hand at a whole variety of working-class jobs but who was no friend of the labour unions could , as part of his episodic film Intolerance , quite effortlessly recreate a clash between workers and police that is so lifelike as to seem like a newsreel and to suggest that perhaps every subsequent labour riot followed its pattern . |
| 20 | Rain never knew how it was that a man who spoke no word of a foreign language could master the intricacies of ordering a favourite type of beer in any country on earth . |
| 21 | Thus it was that the country which , reflecting the convictions of an invincible alliance of the middle and working classes , chose parliamentary reform , limited and partial but irreversibly directed towards full political democracy , and avoided revolution . |
| 22 | But it was that the arm she were using . |
| 23 | and it was because the generation whose sons were being sent to be slaughtered |
| 24 | It was because the kingdom there 's the means by which God will fulfil his wonderful purposes for mankind , for humankind , it is this kingdom that will destroy all wickedness and will clear Jehovah 's name of the reproach that has been brought upon it . |
| 25 | He could only assume that , being unaware of his true status as a DIA agent , the DEA and its oversight agency , the FBI , had seen him as a soft target , and framed the passport violation charge as a means of silencing an awkward witness without realizing who he was or the damage they were doing . |
| 26 | I felt very sorry for him , but there again , the way he was and the way he felt , he 's better off out of it . |
| 27 | And one of them is cos the gentleman who 's taping the meeting would like a sort of signature for the people 's consent to tape it . |