Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [det] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now North Yorkshire County Council er I think in their statement look to erm to existing market towns to provide what little evidence they can up to justify fourteen hundred dwellings , er I think that 's again a simplistic approach because by definition the market now can seal them up wider catchment area , many of them are some distance from York , and the settlements concerned provide a service base for a number of surrounding villages , and therefore the actual specialities and services found within that particular settlement are greater than one would achieve if it did not have a large catchment area . |
| 2 | And er as probably er you gathered Stan and I are both ex-policemen in relation to erm to er our our background and er I think I said yesterday to the er some of the guys as well , one of the things that lorry drivers and policemen do have very much in common is that we have pr probably one the shortest erm pension lives of most professions . |
| 3 | I was out running on Wednesday night at ten o'clock ; I am most nights at that time . ’ ’ |
| 4 | According to the last good book I read , this means that I am half way through my time travel , my travel through time . |
| 5 | I am this prisoner in my own house , you see . |
| 6 | ‘ Your tone would seem to imply that I am some sort of Bluebeard who keeps her incarcerated . |
| 7 | He seems to think I am some sort of double-dealing rascal who is going to cheat him — " |
| 8 | Readings such as Paula Bennett 's enable us to see that Dickinson 's Poems and Inventing Ourselves are both Books of Revelations . |
| 9 | Oh yes , I 'm all favour of dipping , but I want a safer dip for the operators . |
| 10 | ‘ You act like I 'm some kind of monster ! ’ |
| 11 | And the Gunners ' record signing , pilloried for his moment of madness in the battle of White Hart Lane a week ago , said : ‘ People in the street are going to look at me as if I 'm some kind of nutcase trying to put people out of the game . ’ |
| 12 | Then everyone will think I 'm some kind of spy anyway because it 's hardly going to fit in with my cover of being a moron . |
| 13 | She thought : I feel as if I 'm some kind of cake . |
| 14 | You think I 'm some kind of dumbo . |
| 15 | Why would you suppose that I 'm some kind of insomniac ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You 're asking me if I 'm some sort of embittered , wounded animal , who only wants to reach out and break things because he ca n't be happy or possess them ? ’ |
| 17 | You 've got this superior idea that I 'm some sort of half-wit from the back of beyond who has n't the vaguest notion of what happens in the big , bad world . |
| 18 | You see , if you like me then you 'll think that I 'm some sort of brain surgeon , and if you hate me then you 'll think I 'm shit … the truth is in the middle . |
| 19 | Erm and basically er the , the reason for doing it that way is that erm , I do n't want to set up a situation where erm I 'm some sort of expert and I er this is not a matching process , okay ? |
| 20 | ‘ You think I 'm some sort of kosher goody-goody , do n't you , dybbuk ? ’ she says into her fist . |
| 21 | I do n't want the lads thinking I 'm some sort of wimp , that ca n't cope with a bit of shock . ’ |
| 22 | Er , well I 'm , I 'm just in the middle of , I 'm sign writing a vehicle and I 'm half way through the letters and I 've got a , I 've got ta finish that off before I can get into my stock . |
| 23 | It 's just , er the only problem is I 'm half way through treatment and I do n't think |
| 24 | Malc and I were all part of the same gang when we were 14 , sort of ‘ paired off ’ when we were 15 , and started putting our biology theory into practice at 16 . |
| 25 | I 'm not going to bring the whole world down on us by telling my mother and father that I feel like a big spancelled goat going to college and having to come back here every night as if I were some kind of simpleton . |
| 26 | as if I were some Arab with five gold watches up his arm . ’ |
| 27 | I suppose you could say I was all kinds of a fool to trust him , but I 'm a designer , not an accountant . |
| 28 | First because in Prisoner desire and fantasy seem transformed into nonsublimated social identification ; as he puts it in relation to one group of black students in America , ‘ while I never desired any particular person , I was all desire for the group as a whole . |
| 29 | I am now sure I was that boy in an earlier life . |
| 30 | I was that content with being a mother I 'd decided I did n't want a job until my daughter went to secondary school . |