Example sentences of "[be] [indef pn] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It made her feel that he did n't mind everyone knowing she was his girlfriend , and he was really sweet to her in bed , told her she had lovely hair and said she must never , ever cut it , it was so beautiful , and then he began to talk about Therese , saying how cruel it was that he had carried the company all these years and now , just because she was the Direktor 's favourite — he snorted at this point and said he really did believe Therese must have been old Franz 's mistress years ago in Vienna — he was being treated like a pariah , no consideration , everyone being rude and unkind to him , Therese allowed to do just what she liked on the stage even though she 'd been no-one before she came to Hochhauser . |
| 2 | A mere few days are nothing when we 've already survived so much ! " |
| 3 | There are plenty that you would never even guess were related . ’ |
| 4 | Um , as we know from studies of re story telling , as we know from studies of memories for story structure and recall , memories for everyday events mm there 's er a substantial way in which memories are scripted , which memories um seem to fit a schemer , which memories ah are n't stored as a literal description of something but they 're something that we re-construct as we tell them . |
| 5 | much , I think they 're something and nothing , currants . |
| 6 | We 're nothing , of ourselves we might have thought we had but it was of no value whatsoever , but he took us , he says , now you 're something because you belong to me . |
| 7 | And see if they 're anything or nothing . |
| 8 | Er had it been something that you 'd long sought after you know , like like in the mines where it had been an issue for some years ? |
| 9 | about school er further education on , on the magazine and I felt that perhaps , bearing in mind what he 'd said earlier about I have n't had any contact with you for thirteen years , that might have been something that you could 've you know reinforced a bit well we 've now got financial advisers , the other thing or one of the other things we 're doing is , is this contact magazine which we 're sending out to policy holders and it , you know , it helps to bridge the gap as it were . |
| 10 | Then Roland found a sentence which could have been something or nothing . |
| 11 | They are everything and nothing that rock'n'roll is meant to be . |
| 12 | And they are something that they could probably do something about . |
| 13 | The fear and the incipient hatred are something that we impenitent elitists must learn to live with , not anything we can deny . |
| 14 | Council elections are something that we need to look at in other areas . |
| 15 | Condoms are something that everyone uses every day . |
| 16 | People like Niall , like Michael Morrissey , who do know what it is like to be poor and shat on , the bottom of the whole U.K. heap , they know I 'm nothing when they set eyes on me . |
| 17 | He 's starting to realise that by the time he 's in a position to do anything that he wants , there 'll be nothing that he really wants to do . |
| 18 | With neck wounds you ca n't tell , it could be nothing or everything . |
| 19 | It may be nothing or it may be something that Durham Theatre Company , formed one thought to take theatre to places in the county which never have the opportunity to see it , has a new production out soon . |
| 20 | You know , I mean , I 'm just thinking out loud , it has to be someone that you can leave messages with |
| 21 | As Jung pointed out , it is necessary for us to have a Shadow , since we can not be everything that it would be possible for us to be . |
| 22 | You 're trying to be everything and they 're pushing it away cos it 's not what they really want and they , I mean , all , all you can get from him is how marvellous , you 're right , how marvellous his brothers are and yet , what I 've heard of the brothers they 're not |
| 23 | If we find cognisance flourishing where there is a set of actions as restricted as those of Christy Nolan 's , then how can reality be something that we posit as the limits of action : in this case a poor actor should have a correspondingly poor grasp of the real . |
| 24 | But in order for means to be classified as means in the first place they have to be something that we can utilize . |
| 25 | there 's all sorts like , like recruiting , making contact with the schools , er , lobbying , er , there , there about ten or twelve different workshops now , almost on almost every aspects , so and that would be something that we could give , if , if these were n't . |
| 26 | There may be something that we can usefully copy here in Brobdingnag . ’ |
| 27 | I think we were so busy trying to get ourselves organised that the training issue seemed to be something that we would get around to later . |
| 28 | Because sometimes , if the employer goes along , people will think , oh yes , they 're only doing it to get their quota up , and they regard it as something that just helps us , and we can get nearer our quota , and it might be something that we could encourage the unions to help us with , because they could point out the positive benefits to people to be registered , despite the rotten name that they 're called . |
| 29 | However , whatever , the reason why I mention it , I do notice that Green Peace are thinking of , perhaps some members saw it in the press , did you , that Green Peace are making a formal complaint to the European Commission about switching from de-sulphurisation to importing low sulphur coal , and it may be something that we should focus in on as well . |
| 30 | they desperately want a child between them and to them a child that is born by the mother but is from a different origin than than the partner is is the next best thing an , and most of the couples , and we do n't advise them that this should all be kept secret , we leave that decision to be something that they will erm , come to later on when the child is older , and many of these couples will decide that this child will be brought as their own biological child , and I do n't really see that as being any different than many relationships where children are conceived out of wedlock , or out , with the relationship and people make a a a decision to keep this erm to themselves . |