Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] be [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only other point I make is reply to Charles I have some sympathy to him Charles in trying to defend the er the indefensible . |
| 2 | Or : ‘ What I want is paper with narrow lines , |
| 3 | I kept trying to remember what a good time Sugar and Spite had been — and Goodstyle , a history of art revue I 'd written and pinched and compiled for Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art , Dundee , when I 'd been writer in residence . |
| 4 | I mean , schools the only thing I was , I 'd been governor of a a school for thirty years that was used to depress me with the fact that we could n't get for our schools the things that we needed because to me and to all the people in Harlow who have children are concerned that we are being stopped so much money on education which is the most vital thing in our children 's lives ! |
| 5 | that 's what I thought , I was n't quite sure , I just wanted I 'd been sort of going through various things , and I want I 'd wanted to make absolutely sure |
| 6 | Well Of course came the War and and er like for about twelve years like before the War I 'd been president of the Hosiery Finishers Association . |
| 7 | What I know is sense of others profits . |
| 8 | I spent what I assume was transition with an almost continuous pain in my left side and feeling sick as well . |
| 9 | The right hon. Gentleman mentioned the independent central bank , which I believe is part of the long-term anti-inflation policy . |
| 10 | But Kinsey 's were I suppose is part of a general optimism about sexuality which was felt in academic circles through the 1950 's and 1960's . |
| 11 | Then I filled up the brandy bottle with what I thought was water from a big brown bottle . |
| 12 | Percepts I think are sort of breaking things into their sort of components if you like . |
| 13 | ‘ All I did was think of it . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Dear Batty , I needed money for booze so all I did was rip off a few thousand cup final tickets supposed to be for our lot and flog 'em to some scum supporters . |
| 15 | All I did was fall in the water ! ’ |
| 16 | and he had a crowbar and that well I never did anything all I did was stop in me van |
| 17 | ‘ I moved to London and the first thing I did was track down the nearest bloke . |
| 18 | ‘ I moved to London and the first thing I did was track down the nearest bloke . |
| 19 | All I did was walk across the room and pull that curtain off him . ’ |
| 20 | I used to really go down there and all I did was sort of tick off what the lads had already done . |
| 21 | Er the disappointment obviously is oil services , so to begin I 'm gon na ask David , who as I said is Chairman of our Oil Services Division Camco to address this straight away . |
| 22 | ‘ He reckoned I had been part of a consortium which spoke to two clubs and accused me of acting secretly — but I told him . |
| 23 | I had been party to a murder , and I did n't care . |
| 24 | He noticed a sketch I had been doing of Miss Oliver , and could not take his eyes off it . |
| 25 | For more than twenty years I 've been part of the furniture , a constant teatime companion . |
| 26 | I 've been part of Jewish life — and so have Rainbow and all her kind , and all the other heretics and deviants and dissenters — far longer than your little cult . ’ |
| 27 | I 've been south of it all day . ’ |
| 28 | But also in the years since the Liberal Democrats ' inception , I 've been chairman of the Metropolitan Stockport Liberal Democrats . |
| 29 | Something I 've been sort of working on , sort of . ’ |
| 30 | No I , I have n't got any plans at the moment , you know I 've been sort of er I usually go around this time you know , er |