Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sheep , in contrast , are God 's creatures , and the ideal image of the men who tend them is naturally that of the Good Shepherd . |
| 2 | The discrimination between the local authorities throughout the country and the London boroughs pardon me are not included in this decision , in fact they 're exempt from it . |
| 3 | I mean everyone was really charged up , there were a lot of — nobody got some sleep . |
| 4 | I mean no-one was very bullish right from the outset because of problems of previous years , so everyone set a sensible target for ninety one , and erm I think most of them are fairly confident , as I said earlier , that the market may be five per cent down but not much more than that . |
| 5 | Being quite educated and articulate I was n't the sort of prisoner they expected , even though as there are more drug offenders there are more and more women like me . |
| 6 | I regret I am not likely to lose weight in China , as their habit , at least in Peking , is to give us at least twice as much food as we need , and however much we gently suggest that three platefuls rather than six would be sufficient , they still go on just the same . |
| 7 | Although born and bred in the country and reinstalled there for the past 30 years , I fear I am not a proper countryman ; London has dished me . |
| 8 | Maybe I was too young because I fear I was not an assiduous student . |
| 9 | There are so many sick in the village , February is a wicked month , and it seems to take me all my time to get round the cottages and then when I am back , I am extremely tired and I fear I 'm not as patient as I should be , poor little creatures and the baby still in his petticoats . |
| 10 | ‘ I fear I 'm rather past giving interviews , ’ Lady Heathcoat Amory had warned , ‘ but I 'll meet you if it will help the garden . ’ |
| 11 | I know that I , I mean I is just at the moment going through the S A T S course . |
| 12 | I mean I am just as much as anybody else . |
| 13 | I mean I am constantly being confronted with students who do things that I do n't actually understand , and they 're my own students , and actually that 's quite nice , I like that . |
| 14 | I mean I am totally opposed to vigilantes on the street , and that 's what I think a parish constable service er , runs the risk becoming . |
| 15 | The erm safety on the transport yes I mean I am very happy to say that we will ask the , the staff to look at that and perhaps I can just clarify the meaning of that paragraph ah in four point eight when it says a m a new member of staff it means a new member of staff will be responsible for health and safety not just one person on his own . |
| 16 | I mean I was already bald at the sides . |
| 17 | I mean I was just doing my job . |
| 18 | Well i I 'm happy , I mean I was just going to make that point , sir , but I do have other points , but I 'll wait . |
| 19 | Erm I mean I was just finding myself expressing the views that er given the dramatic change in the composition of the County Council since the election , I would have thought something as major as the East Grinstead by-pass would need to be considered by the new council anyway and er I think it would be perhaps er assuming too much er to believe that the present council would follow the line of the previous council that 's only er a personal expression . |
| 20 | Yeah , but , I mean I was just , erm , I found that very informative as well , I was very disappointed that if that much money er , information was available that we were not given it as members , because it would have made decision making far more sensible , but erm , |
| 21 | Before then , yes , we must of bought it when we moved in cos I , I mean I was n't without a bed |
| 22 | You have to clean a lot of brasses , but I mean I was n't gon na be put off . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's all right , ’ she said hastily , ‘ I did n't — I mean I was n't … ’ |
| 24 | I was taken here but at the time I mean I was n't one of the really seriously burnt , I mean I was still conscious and I was still walking around . |
| 25 | And it was just me arm and me hand and me face that were were burnt and and at that the time I mean I was n't in any pain and I think there was more serious ones to be dealt with . |
| 26 | ‘ I mean I was n't there , ’ Paul says . |
| 27 | I mean I was n't sure how things stood … ’ |
| 28 | Well I 'm not stupid , I mean I was n't stu , when I was at the junior schools in the country I was n't stupid |
| 29 | I mean I was n't born until nineteen thirty and I mean I I I can remember Jim well so he did n't die until probably nineteen forty . |
| 30 | Yeah I mean I was n't expecting anything like er erm like him being a nice person to me ever again but it was fun |