Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [be] [adv] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am sitting with Deee-Lite and a couple of their American press agents in a modest Manhattan restaurant called The Savoy , and I am already feeling unqualified for inclusion in this company . |
| 2 | You can still see the algae in the water , and I am still drinking bottled . |
| 3 | It still gives a lot back to me , and I am still making new friends . |
| 4 | Right , this is a fashion plate ; a ball dress in the eighteen-forties , and I 'm just showing this actually to make another point ; sort of change of direction maybe , because I 'm now going to almost undo everything that I 've just said , and say that this was the fashion , high fashion of the eighteen forties . |
| 5 | The neck is very good to play ; the balance is about right and I 'm slowly getting used to the weird control arrangement . |
| 6 | He smiles : ‘ I 've grown up a lot and I 'm now enjoying important fights that used to fill me with nerves . |
| 7 | But now they are out as well as all junk food , and I 'm only eating one meal a day . |
| 8 | I 'm on your side , and I 'm only saying this for your own good . ’ |
| 9 | I have been an avid machine knitter since 1956 and I 'm still learning new ways or doing things . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's all right , Dr Markham , ’ she replied , then in a sudden flash of inspiration , and hoping that David would realise what she meant , she said , ‘ Jimmy and I were just discussing visiting Len Seager in hospital . |
| 11 | This was why Louisa Agnew had chosen the title of that text for her epitaph ; and if he and I were ever to unravel that secret , he said , we should get back to work . |
| 12 | They reckoned that my extra weight had protected my heart , and I was also wearing heavy , rubber-soled safety boots . |
| 13 | I said I was going to tech on a night for my maths A level and I was also taking General and English . |
| 14 | I said I was n't going to be , and I was already doing scientific research with you . |
| 15 | because , yeah well I thought I might and then he said something about I was at this meeting where I was talking to all these official in their suits and ties and I was only dressed casual and I thought , at that point I sort of |
| 16 | You know , you carry on down the motorway , like the sun was on , on , and I was really getting sweaty hot with the sun , it was like on the win on the on er , the window |
| 17 | The floor was covered by a large mosaic and I was really getting interested in some of the antics of the guys with beards who were scattered all over it , when I heard the tap-tap of her feet in the distance together with a heavier , more measured tread . |
| 18 | You are kind of dozing but you are not asleep because you ca n't get to sleep because there is a needle sticking in your arm and you have got a drip going on and they come and change the bag and you are constantly feeling sick . |
| 19 | And you 're also saying that , that there is some equalization going on because erm the tax rate erm and th th th the top tax rate , at least to begin with , is forty two percent , the bottom tax rate is only three percent . |
| 20 | And you 're still dreaming this impossible dream about you and some fantastic job in publishing . |
| 21 | I think it 's wrong to underestimate erm i i it 's particularly initially , how , how positively reinforced it can , it can be around you erm , just this the idea of losing weight and that er you know , people will be wha , for whatever reasons are , either envious or they want to know how you can do it , they want to know , and particularly if it 's linked with exercise then it 's all very good things to do and you know , the media 's telling you and a , everyone 's telling that this healthy lifestyle that actually then goes out of control through being so controlled erm e e , there 's a , well there 's a thin line between it , being a very positive experience , and you 're suddenly buying smaller jeans and erm you know , it 's just everything is is feeding , if that 's the right word , this idea that it , that that it 's tremendous to be |
| 22 | Consider an ad. in the various publications that swamp the event or , more expense , renting an exhibition space ( or , as many companies did , hiring a yacht moored to a pier just by the festival building ) , and you 're obviously talking serious investment . |
| 23 | And she 's already collected seventeen thousand signatures on a petition for a change in the law . |
| 24 | . And she gets , and she 's always getting new clothes and new shoes . |
| 25 | yeah , they 'll be , and she 's always moaning driving Sue up the wall , why should I keep him blah , blah , blah , blah , doing nothing , we sit and look at each other and Sue said for Christ sake she said you 're twenty years old , not forty , she 'd been bad on and off again , throat , well she had the shoulder , throat er she thought she had , oh the diabetes was one were n't it , diabetes one , they thought she had , thought that she had glandular fever but she has n't and er , so Sue said to her well are you looking after yourself and she said yes I am , Sue said well I du n no she never seems to be , cos she 's never been well has she really ? |
| 26 | Yes , and she 's obviously tacked that up , but you can see the stitching round the waistband , and she 's repaired it , but even here |
| 27 | The first version there , is one that I did before I even looked at your , at at any of the homeworks , and I got myself into some awkwardness of trying to translate virtues , and ended up with beneficial properties , erm , which is hardly perhaps very idiomatic and the one underneath that is Jemma 's and the absent writer not that she could be embarrassed because she 's not here , erm , and she 's actually simplified more than I have , by half a line , you 'll understand . |
| 28 | I said she 's okay and she can handle it beautifully , and she 's never eaten any little parts yet and some of the arms , Bobby , are tiny ! |
| 29 | I 've written her notes and notes and notes and she 's never answered one of them . |
| 30 | Cos she was put in that job when she was only a young girl and she 's never brought any shame or anything , not like the young ones are doing now ! |