Example sentences of "[be] [pron] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And oh Fergus , my dear , lost love , am I doing you so much harm ? |
| 2 | ‘ Aha , but if you are my enemies you 'll know about that . |
| 3 | Faldo said : ‘ When you are my height you have a tendency to go down too far on the ball and that is what I was doing . |
| 4 | ‘ If that had been my purpose I would not have tended your wound , ’ she faltered , hoping he could n't hear the tremor in her voice . |
| 5 | She 's always been my mother I 've hated or been ashamed of . |
| 6 | I only hope that when I am their age I will act a little better . |
| 7 | You know in a way South Wales is paying back the debt that we pa w w we paid them in their strike you know I mean and That 's communities helping communities and if really this management is talking about er the fact that they resent families not having to go without over Christmas and this sort of thing you know I mean where are their values you know it 's difficult to understand is n't it ? |
| 8 | What are its features I hear you ask ? |
| 9 | No matter what they had said to her at the hospital , it had been her fault she had died . |
| 10 | ‘ I wanted to tell you , ’ she said , ‘ the Conductor — he 's like the captain of a ship — knows that you 're our security you want , and to let you go everywhere in the train without question , including the engines , as long as the two engineers — they 're the train-drivers — permit it , which he says they will once he 's talked to them . |
| 11 | Are there assumptions I can safely make about the language they understand , their level of awareness , the social and political groups they identify with ? |
| 12 | Are there friends you have not spoken to for months or even longer ? |
| 13 | Must this remain speculation , or are there ways we can find out more about this mysterious earth energy ? |
| 14 | Are there places you would like to visit ? |
| 15 | He would be my pick I must say , of them He 's he 's |
| 16 | Erm my mother , we were a little bit better off than they were and er I remember going to a child with my mother , to see what would be my aunt you see and uncle , and the only time I ever remember seeing my aunt with eleven children was sitting at the corner of a table with a sort of a coarse apron on and just sitting there and I never saw her doing anything . |
| 17 | Erm well not as such as a songwriter , I mean I do that yes but I 'm my occupation I 'm a self-employed window cleaner . |
| 18 | From the time that my colleagues in the House of Commons did me the honour of electing me to be their leader I have felt that I was in the position of a trustee ; and even throughout the war the one thing that I have aimed at constantly has been to preserve . |
| 19 | When foreign journalists were occasionally bold enough to ask Ceauşescu whether he intended Nicu to be his successor he gave non-committal answers . |
| 20 | oh , I mean er , I know we can have different opinions on why we think St John is so adamant that she must be his wife I do think it 's a power struggle . |
| 21 | I could be what number it is . |
| 22 | but he 's proper pissed off , what can he do ? , because its not just him , its not just Stuart because she , cos Geoffrey says oh half the kids in the class are all bloody weird he said , they 're supposed to be me friends he says there 's only one kid in the class that does n't join in and its Indipau |
| 23 | I said oh you cunt , said I 'm your troop you ca n't me go in there , he says try me , I said bastard so I fucking right sea , fucking over the right you can come out now , marched back out again gave them a right old on the way back again , get changed again , alright , I thought you cunt |
| 24 | Are they people I know and not rough . |
| 25 | If it had been his daughter he would have tried to have stopped it . |
| 26 | Perhaps they had been his footsteps they 'd heard above them earlier . |
| 27 | We , we actually lived in th the corner shop is right on the corner if you 've come up High street on the bus and your Co-op would be on that corner , your church and your Co-op 's on the corner , and just turns there and I only lived just down that street , so we never had to have it delivered because we just popped up er and my brother and I , I can so remember us going with our two big bags you know and we , you know how you do when families meet you know and he 'll say that 's the time , because dad , we never knew dad hit us and yet you 'd of thought he was , we , we were so scared it must have been his voice you know , that he erm that we was so scared that everything was all correct from the Co- op . |
| 28 | If I 'd been his wife I would n't have hesitated . |
| 29 | He was our , he was our squadron but not our troop you see , see if I 'd a been his troop he probably would n't of made me go into the sea , but it was fucking cold , I mean , I mean full M B C kit right |
| 30 | Throw a shovelful of tarmac into the canal and they went to pieces , it had n't been his fault he 'd tripped over the cat . |