Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] is [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exactly as I appear is exactly as I am , he had said that day in Carlingford . |
| 2 | ‘ The two jobs go hand-in-hand and nearly everything I do is directly or indirectly related to the environment , ’ said Mike , who joined the business four years ago . |
| 3 | Cos in one respect I 'd rather do what I think is enough but er than too much and then feel like a bloated little |
| 4 | For example , you know currently , you know our shift pattern with the projectionists for example , you know is generally when they 're not on holiday that they 're in at er ten o'clock and they work through till eleven . |
| 5 | If the value we get is more than 19 , we will subtract 20 repetitively until it is brought into the range 0 to 19 . |
| 6 | Now right down in the corner , bearing in mind my parents ' garden shall we say is there and the field height is there |
| 7 | you see , I mean what they do is soon as they 've kicked them out in the mental homes they 're having to put them in to erm , I mean erm , there are people who are not able to be on their own , I mean the ones they 've kicked out are people that have been depressed and say well you 've got to find , get your family to help , I mean , when you 've got somebody depressed in your family you try and help them |
| 8 | And they , it was a bit frightening because we were in a group of seventeen and see what I mean when , I mean how it starts is like if were starting with me , I have to say I 'm Tony , right , and then you would say I 'm Jackie and this is Tony and then Christine would say I 'm Christine this is Jackie , this is Tony , I was at the end of a group of seventeen and I had heard it sort of , you hear it , it builds up round the room |
| 9 | The problem he says is only that Mr Tijani turned out to be so ill , otherwise he came as a legitimate private patient . |
| 10 | There 's much that makes sense ; there 's much that is thought-provoking , even if the thought it provokes is often that the authors are off their trolley ( 'be alert to the strange fact that the end of each century divisible by five has witnessed a major transition in Western civilisation ’ ) . |
| 11 | er and and and nice to know that we want to establish contact and you may be aware that we 've had this plan , and , and what we want it to achieve is so and so , and we 'd like to set it up in this way . |
| 12 | As for the author 's intentions , what counts is only whether or not he has succeeded in writing poetry , and that too can be discerned by reference to the text alone . |
| 13 | Another version puts things differently , arguing that men 's way of speaking is not intrinsically more credible/authoritative , what happens is simply that men can use their socially dominant position to claim linguistic privileges . |