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Example sentences of "be [adj] and [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	The result now , after over three months , is that the tanks are stable and I 've lost no more fish .
2	Our links with the press are strong and we provide copy ready material and photographs under the banner of Media Action .
3	Our survey programmes have been extensive and we have found nothing of a type similar to that which has been found in Derbyshire .
4	The young man 's intentions had been honourable and he had asked his father to obtain her as a bride .
5	They will last longer and look better if lining paper , applied horizontally , is used first , especially if walls are uneven and you want to hide the bumps .
6	The reason for the decision was that the burden of proof lay on the defendants to prove that they had not been negligent and they had failed to discharge this burden .
7	Everybody 's completely different and there 's such a tendency not to study people really and to simply think of them as all exactly the same , ‘ You 're 75 and you 're old and you 've got to put up with that .
8	Look , I know you 're clever and you 've made a success of a career in a male-dominated area , but there 's no need to ram that fact down everyone 's throat . ’
9	And then but also with the poor peasants I mean you , you 've given them a , enough land so that they , they still ca n't meet subsistence , given them some land but not enough , but you know because they 're resourceful and they 've got other things that they , they do n't need to have enough land to give subsistence , they 'd rather go and do something else and make it up .
10	When you 're poor and they 've got to find all the bills .
11	I 've been chief executive and/or chairman for twenty-five years and the tendency is to think you 're indispensable and you have to stay on until you 're seventy-five , as some people do .
12	When you 're working and you 're busy and you 've got to do it I mean like this last week because of playing golf mainly , and putting weedkiller down , the grass is this high and
13	So , we 're , we 're skint and I want to go and get some
14	‘ All of that , but you 're drunk and you seem to have forgotten who came here just now and hit you . ’
15	You 're big and you 've got a hole in the middle and what 's the next bit .
16	When they 're young and they 've got the chance .
17	‘ He said : ‘ You are sick and you have had your appendix out . ’
18	‘ He said : ‘ You are sick and you have had your appendix out . ’
19	Sometimes you have to strike very quickly , such as when fish are finicky and you have to respond to twitch bites .
20	‘ I doubt it , ’ muses Carl , ‘ but I admit we 've been lucky and we 've had a lot of coverage .
21	‘ I doubt it , ’ muses Carl , ‘ but I admit we 've been lucky and we 've had a lot of coverage .
22	Those roles are valuable and we intend to build on them .
23	You have been patient and you have worked hard , and I fear on many occasions late into the night I 'm sure , you have proved adaptable and er you have been good-tempered .
24	Well after extensive tests it can be revealed that they are human and they do have a heart .
25	My discussions with the café owner have always been amiable and I have paid for car parking ( when asked ) and have gone about my business in an unobtrusive manner .
26	Over the door the others are flat and they 've had it done although the roof
27	The learning process from this project has been invaluable and it 's allowed Save The Children to move forward in several other countries .
28	And I would gain considerable advantage from speeding ; I am tired and I want to get home to bed .
29	Cyrus we stand before your eternal dwelling to place to speak these solemn words ; sleep on in peace for ever , for we are awake and we remain to watch over your glorious heritage .
30	The last act had been unsatisfactory and he wanted to provide a more effective resolution ; he was also concerned that he might have gone too far in removing the " poetry " from his dramatic verse .