Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [pron] [verb] [pron] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I went over to see them in a tea dance one Friday and they said it was like they were being auditioned . |
| 2 | One look at Meadowbrook and I knew he was hopeless for us . |
| 3 | I went to the doctor on the Saturday and he said it was gastroenteritis and prescribed tablets for me for it and told me just to keep up my fluids so I did n't get dehydrated . |
| 4 | She offered to do it for Simon and he thought it was a good idea but er he never quite got around to doing it . |
| 5 | you know , this woman that I , goes down the school that talks , who I talked to , she knew from Peterborough and I think she 's German , she 's got an accent , I 'm sure for certain she 's German , anyway she 's got twins in Robert 's class and she was talking to me today and she was telling me her husband moved out to move from Peterborough with his job so I said what does he do ? and she said he 's a scientist , so I said oh is he ? , |
| 6 | This was our second day in Normandy and I believed we were getting used to it . |
| 7 | She was saving up to go skiing the next January and she knew there was n't much chance of Adam repaying a loan by then . |
| 8 | He was my guv'nor in Tottenham and he said you were all right . ’ |
| 9 | I think er it 's tragic what happened to Ray and I think it 's also tragic what 's happening to people . |
| 10 | I 'll soon be eight … well , not till December and I know it 's only summer , but I 'll be eight in December , wo n't I ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Unemployment is higher in Scotland than in Germany and I think it 's a lot worse here than in the rest of Britain . ’ |
| 12 | Erm I mean kids can do , of a similar age , can do enormously abusive things to each-other in which case it 's often thought of as things like bulling or erm or or something like that y'know I mean for example I know somebody who attende was educated at Rugby and you know he was he was buggered silly by the other boys who also wired him up to the mains and stuck billiard cues up his bum and all sort of things . |
| 13 | We 're not only catering for Harlow people we are catering for people outside which is bringing money into Harlow helping the finance of Harlow and I think we are just progressing with the times . |
| 14 | If I 'd have Jan with Ben and we thought it was a new girlfriend . |
| 15 | Talk to Robin Slade and you know he 's a man who 's studied his sheep ; not from the point of view of winning awards with animals at the other end of a halter , but from a desire to produce the ideal carcass with that all-important round muscle . |
| 16 | If you 're a C D O at Trent and you know you 're gon na go out on patrol as a special that night , there 's no doubt Trevor will let you take a radio home with you , as long as you bring it back the next day . |
| 17 | ‘ But both Graham and I knew it was impractical for me to continue in the job and remain as manager of Exeter . ’ |
| 18 | It 's , it 's Tom who 's doing it , I just wrote Tom and I thought you were in yesterday 's group , but you 're in today 's group so it ca n't be you , it 's Tom . |
| 19 | They had er his name was Jimmy they had er well one used t one old gentleman used to be a yes and his name was Jimmy , the waiter , that 's right I , I get a , I have to think because I , I sometimes get mixed up and I 'm at Cambridge and you see it was a long time ago , you see , so , since I was young and I was then . |
| 20 | In the meantime the people on the boat moored between Bob Nudd and myself decided it was time for a move . |
| 21 | Before losing out to Northampton who were bullies , I was at that match at Buckingham Road and I thought they were bullies , especially Bobby Barnes , not the wrestler , used to play for West Ham , but he plays for Northampton now , he 's gone now , but they were , they , they were naughty . |
| 22 | Quarterly meetings which they call them that was held in er the Odd Fellows Hall in Forest Road and I think it was the March January February March quarterly meeting that they er the ballot was taken for delegates for the conference . |
| 23 | My wife also works at the accountants in Shoe Lane and she believes I was elsewhere , with a client . ’ |
| 24 | When Yasmin and I met it was Ramadan , and Yasmin , a Muslim girl of seventeen , was fasting . |
| 25 | And this is quite unique when you go to South Africa and you see what 's happening that black leaders and blacks do not go for quick votes and quick solutions , we 're not trying to keep , tu turn people against whites . |
| 26 | That 's it yeah , and erm I was erm Wally and Gordon and he thinks there 's another couple you see , so I said well , you know , and I told him about the heater you see and he know , I said when people sitting on their backsides in committee making decisions , I said , you know , I said it just makes me bloody well annoyed , he said I know he said they do n't , they , they make the decisions and , but they do n't do the nitty gritty , they you know |
| 27 | Used to go out bloody stupid and he use to have these called Philip and he did he was always on Philip . |
| 28 | And we have a bicycle which he made in the year eighteen seventy , that was before he had started business on his own and he had erm made it for a young solicitor in Galashiels and I believe it was used in a race from Galashiels from Place in Galashiels to the . |
| 29 | While Kermit and I talked we were joined by Bill Ross , warbird owner and a past President of the Warbirds of America organisation . |
| 30 | I 've played in front of Mike Hooper and I believe he is one of the top six in the country . |