Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] be [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 that yours are observation
2 Sorry I was cross ! ’ she said .
3 I was scruffy until then — after that I was houseproud !
4 I love it when a plan does n't work how dry I am , how dry I am , nobody knows how dry I am will you get me whisky for me ?
5 Well I mean it 's , this it 's patrol , it 's two patrol tents in particular that I 'm looking at , if they 've got some decent er scout tents
6 According to this it 's cloud .
7 I make no apologies for this it is self evidently both right and in everyone 's interest to do what we can to support this transition process .
8 In cases like this it is time to think carefully about which parts need perhaps to be emphasised and which part need to be toned down .
9 The guidelines make it clear it is council policy not to permit golf development if it involves new buildings or associated development in the open countryside , and is unrelated to existing settlements .
10 Hundreds of callers jammed the BBC switchboard for more than an hour , complaining it had not been made clear it was make believe .
11 No it 's wrong it 's upside down that 's why .
12 From 1851 to 1881 he was professor of ophthalmic medicine and surgery at University College London , and although he influenced the earliest microscopical investigations of Joseph ( later first Baron ) Lister [ q.v. ] ,
13 For first and ever foremost he is child .
14 Yeah that 's what I was thinking it 's funny it 's sort of Christmas makes everything better or worse .
15 it well it 's it 's lost some it 's style by
16 30 It 's epitaph time .
17 We are talking about the latest sing-along video to hit the market yes , I 'm afraid it 's Karaoke Opera time !
18 ‘ But now I 'm afraid it 's time we were off .
19 In 1947–8 he was chief of staff , Western Command ; in 1949–50 he was again employed , briefly , on secret planning ; and he retired in 1951 .
20 When you have a version of the report that is nearly acceptable it is time to test it .
21 : - ) Im much more posher , honest I am guv … strike a light … a fair cop me old son etc etc
22 I , I just did n't stay to ask to be quite honest I was shell shocked .
23 GET OFF , BOSS- YOU 'RE RUBBISH !
24 As such it is part of the legacy of a long tradition of humanist thought which stretches back to fifth-century BC Greece when the first decisive steps towards modern secularism were taken .
25 The circulation is erm is has grown every year we 've had it and that 's very important because erm a lot of the subscrip a lot of the circulation of Les Echo is in fact a subscription in advance such it 's cash generating qualities are high even when the profits are down .
26 As such it was prod and key to personal achievement and productivity .
27 About 1256–7 he was lector at the Cambridge convent ( Thomas Eccleston , q.v. , De Adventu Fratrum Minorum , ed .
28 In the first term , colour is the theme , in the second it 's shape and third texture .
29 From 1673 to 1677 he was MP for Newark , but he did not sit .
30 well done , I never can get that word out I stumble with it every time and that gets a signal from the brain that says this is a difficult situation this is something I 'm not used to this is some I it 's very primitive it 's it 's from the days in the jungle or whatever er a fear of fright over absolute it 's fight or flight , and that 's why you start breathing quicker because the blood wants more oxygen because it 's ready to run or to fight because the muscles , it is
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