Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [adv] [verb] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am now installed and with a maid-of-all-work with me named Maria . |
| 2 | If you play professional tennis , then it is even more important to have good technique because I am always saying that in a draw of 64 or 128 people , they are all watching how you play and of course they will find out what is happening with your game . |
| 3 | Personally , I am much encouraged that in response to pressure the Bill was amended to make it flexible enough to accommodate pupils ' special educational needs . |
| 4 | I 'm strongly thinking that at |
| 5 | I 'm just wondering whether in fact every Saturday that you 've got , bearing in mind this is not flag days , this is in the street . |
| 6 | Oh she said I 'm ever so sorry I was miles away , I said yeah we 've just said that , I said you never even heard us , so I said what you , you ca n't understand why you pay too much tax , she said no I know why I pay too much tax she said but more she said I used to be in business she said and I 'm on basic rate of tax , so I said yeah I 've had some of that , so she said what basic rate of tax , I said yeah where I 've come so , it 's a funny thing she said , I was saying to Carol the other day , she said erm , she said what a difference them blokes you work with , so I said yeah , I said I 'm always saying that about these so she said oh she said er |
| 7 | Er but I say it , I was just using that as an example of how it brought it home to me how easy it is to get in . |
| 8 | I was just saying that during the course of today I hope you 'll complete a questionnaire . |
| 9 | I was just saying that to Dad here this morning . ’ |
| 10 | I was just saying that in that respect there 's not really much between John Major and Margaret Thatcher |
| 11 | I was also reminded that on the same floor I woke up one morning to find the sun shining through the curtains , it being the only day of the entire Frankfurt Book Fair that my room was not below cloud level . |
| 12 | I was once deceived as to the value of counterpoint . |
| 13 | And you 're also summoned that on that same occasion you not having given your name and address to any person requiring it at the time , you failed to report the accident at a police station , or to a constable as soon as reasonably practicable and in any case within twenty four hours of it happening again , that 's an offence under section twenty five of the road traffic act to that effect do you plead guilty or not guilty ? |
| 14 | ‘ If you 're only agreeing because of the tape and the report , then I 'd rather you refused . |
| 15 | Not to sort of well you , you ca n't be blamed because I mean yo , in the innocent you were actually going because of the concert . |
| 16 | Yeah , yeah and she 's , yeah , and she says she 's so fed cos to her there 's nothing wrong with her , the baby did put on weight last week , but she said you know , what do you do in here all day . |
| 17 | And she is wholly believed because of that . |
| 18 | She stands for the civilization of the South , of the Midi , the home of the troubadours , against the sterner , rougher , cruder world of the North , represented , in this image , by her husband , the King of the North Wind , whose authority she is subtly undermining and against whom she will soon break out in open rebellion . |
| 19 | The events of the last year had left her mentally drained while she was physically exhausted because of her chronic illness . |
| 20 | Her life is described over at least two pages and is very dramatic — she lived in Italy where she was much courted because of her great beauty but she eventually married ‘ the very worst of those who sought her hand ’ — Paulo Neroni . |
| 21 | It has been suggested that early alarms were ignored but I would like to emphasize that we are greatly curtailed as to actions a public body can take based only on hearsay and rumour . |
| 22 | But we 're still perplexed as to how the accident could have happened and we 're still looking for any motive for murder or suicide . ’ |
| 23 | We were completely baffled as to why there should be these differences , and in particular why the preferred directions of the on-type directionally selective ganglion cells should fall into three groups . |
| 24 | At the most profound , over which we had no conscious control , we were ideally suited and at peace . |
| 25 | They are also charged that on or before Tuesday , March 2 , they conspired at Walford Road and elsewhere to cause an explosion in the UK and with possessing a ‘ quantity of Semtex ’ at the Stoke Newington flat . |
| 26 | DAVID HUME in 1757 wrote ‘ There is a universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves and transfer to every object those qualities with which they are intimately acquainted and of which they are intimately conscious . ’ |
| 27 | In the rest of this chapter we shall drop the assumption that prices are fully flexible and examine the implications of assuming that they are either fixed or at least move only slowly to their equilibrium values . |
| 28 | Thrips or thunder flies as they are sometimes called because of their tendency to fly in clouds when thunder threatens — are minute midge-like flies that like to get into buds just as the bud scales ( sepals ) are opening and lay their eggs there . |
| 29 | Black-clad , a little spidery , they are so mince as to be minuscule . |
| 30 | If the acquirer 's solicitors are to prepare the agreement , it is very important that they are fully informed as to the acquirer 's aims and concerns about the acquisition and its assessment of its bargaining position and that they discuss the draft with the acquirer before it is released to the seller . |