Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [adv] [conj] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The presence of incomers was presented as the most immediate and tangible aspect of the general threat to the Shetland ‘ Way of Life ’ Although Shetland is reputed to be something of a melting pot , given the many different influxes of people over the centuries ( one native council official saw the typical Shetlanders as a bit of a ‘ mongrel ’ ) , these incomers were presumed to be somewhat different : most of them are here because their jobs brought them here ( those who are not here because of their jobs are eccentric ! ) , their stay will be temporary , there are more of them , they represent mainstream and hence dominant ways of life , they regard Shetlanders as peasants or country hicks . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm here because my boss sent me . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm here because my husband told me to be here , Shih Bergson . ’ |
| 4 | I felt I was right but my stock was low on this establishment . |
| 5 | I 'm as good now as I was then and my target is 20 goals for the season . |
| 6 | You are here because your people wanted this . |
| 7 | You 're not after my glasses are you ? |
| 8 | She needs a bike to support her , she 's , she has n't got any mobility , she ca n't control her arms , her limbs , although she 's there , you speak to her and she knows you 're there , and if you 're listening Joanne , hello , we know you 're there because your mum was telling us today . |
| 9 | ‘ But you were there and your friends , you 're the same people , so you must be the same group now . ’ |
| 10 | I wanted to keep her exactly as she was up until her retirement years ago , ’ said Mr Nelson . |
| 11 | And when we were apart and my thoughts were about him , my body absorbed my mind 's obsession and throbbed for him . |
| 12 | They finished and we were backstage and our guys were setting up our stuff and all these bikers in the audience started to chant , ‘ Poofter , poofter , ’ which was aimed at me , and we were thinking , ‘ Oh know , this is ugly . ’ |
| 13 | If you ended up with several lists of different sounds you would also try and decide what sounds they are phonetically and what symbols to use . |
| 14 | When he or she does we ask for details like what club they are in and what experience they 've had ’ . |
| 15 | I liked everything about it , I liked everything about it , mind you I had sore fingers to begin with , very sore , with the filing you see , but also er I was used to thing in a way because there was a little lock shop in mother 's yard er and erm home-made er home-made locks and he used to er and now he used to do them and stamp them and I us I worked his hand press for him before I was fourteen and they were for and they are still and my mother used to take them to Birmingham and erm I think he used to give me sixpence for doing everything I did for him . |
| 16 | I say their contemplation can give no-one pleasure ; they are there because their absence would be resented by the average man who regards a large amount of futile display as in some way inseparable from the conditions of that well-to-do life to which he belongs or aspires to belong . |
| 17 | They are there because their ancestors succeeded in doing the same . |
| 18 | some reason it has n't accepted it and Brian says it 's probably cos me wages have n't gone in yet , the bank they ca n't be empty , so he 's hoping to get that by the time they took it out he 's money at the end , it 's embarrassing enough , so , he 's telling me , so they had to take the stuff off him |
| 19 | I suppose it 's probably because his time at Leeds coincided with the time when I used to go to see them most frequently . |
| 20 | It 's probably because his father is n't important . |
| 21 | It 's not that my family deliberately kept Fred 's existence a secret . |
| 22 | Children are as perceptive as adults really , it 's just that their perception is slightly different and so there are certain things you do n't deal with . |
| 23 | It 's just that your father 's letter … it seems almost to suggest — ’ At which point the spill I was holding burnt my fingers . |
| 24 | It 's just that your father and I … well , we thought he was a very pleasant young man , and he seemed to like you quite a lot . ’ |
| 25 | it 's just that my mum and dad have been on ones where they do n't know where they 're going , Greece |
| 26 | It 's just that my dad repairs mine . |
| 27 | ‘ No , it 's just that my sister 's going out , ’ she says , as she picks up the various plastic carrier bags already waiting in the hall . |
| 28 | It 's just that my throat is sore and I 'm aching all over . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's just that my mother lives a few miles away from there , in Blindenhall . ’ |
| 30 | It 's just that my husband could n't get through to BR , and he rang the operator and I thought … ’ |