Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't give me that crap about being lower-middle-class : it really annoys me . ’ |
| 2 | Dear Mr Kennedy , Please could you give me some information on being an INTELLECTUAL . |
| 3 | My usual response to being addressed in German was to reply ( in Russian ) ‘ Ya nye Nyemyets ’ ( ‘ I 'm not a German ’ ) which confused them since I clearly was not Russian . |
| 4 | However , by this time I had outgrown my adolescent appetite for being shocked and had acquired some knowledge of parapsychology . |
| 5 | I just felt like I would have given my right arm to be there with a camera — and that stayed in my mind for a long time . ’ |
| 6 | Asked by a perfumed interrogator whether I would like a large slice of my earned income to be taken from me and devoted to helping the poor , I would feel loathe to shake my head . |
| 7 | I wanted my old friend to be there ; I prayed for nothing to have changed . |
| 8 | My favourite memory of being a pretend punk is drawn from the summer of 1978 . |
| 9 | It would be unfair to pretend that , but I do not want my hon. Friend to be carried away by the importance of it . |
| 10 | I thank my hon. Friend for being part of the Government who have enhanced and protected green belt districts more robustly than any other Government of the post-war period . |
| 11 | ‘ I should n't want my little brother to be upset . ’ |
| 12 | It is my great pleasure to be here with you on this happy occasion and to help Annabelle and Steven celebrate their marriage . |
| 13 | It is my great pleasure to be here this morning to express my sincere gratitude to you , my fellow members , for electing me as your National President for 1993/94 . |
| 14 | Extract from a letter received from an ex-member of the Womens Royal Air Force after a period of convalescence at Richard Peck House ‘ It was my good fortune to be given a period of convalescence at Richard Peck House after major surgery . |
| 15 | Just to clarify matters , I have been unemployed since late last year but have budgeted my small income to be able to meet this year 's Governors subscription at the current rates and hopefully any increase that may take effect … |
| 16 | Er and I , I do n't know whether that was where I got my first idea of being a nurse . |
| 17 | It was my first experience of being totally responsible for trying to get funds , selling people the idea and overseeing the building . " |
| 18 | My first meeting with was e a I doubt whether he actually remembers er but it was actually on an Inter City , I do n't know whether he does remember , on an Inter City back from London erm three or four years ago when h he also tried to get me to join the Labour Party if I remember rightly . |
| 19 | I see the sign saying Welcome to Inverness just as I remember where I left the car and where I left from this morning and just before I turn and stamp to the nearest desk and demand in my highest dudgeon to be taken to Edinburgh on a charted Lear if necessary or limoed immediately to the highest-starred hotel within a reasonable radius for a free overnight dinner , bed and breakfast and unlimited bar tab . |
| 20 | I did not begrudge Wilson this , since I had no wish for my own part to be revealed , but for some reason best known to himself he decided that he would at least claim the credit for having found me . |
| 21 | It was a whole new experience , and at first it made my own feeling of being a fraud even more acute . |
| 22 | At first I would go for short walks , lasting perhaps half an hour , and then return to bed sufficiently impressed with my own daring to be able to relax into sleep . |
| 23 | O'Dowd will accept my sincere best wishes and be assured of my genuine regret at being involved in what , for him , was a very painful episode . |
| 24 | The clearer the outline of my skeleton became , the more I felt my true self to be emerging , like a nude statue being gradually hewn from some amorphous block of stone . |
| 25 | But Ted just smiled and said , ‘ This is my last chance to be happy . |
| 26 | He said : ‘ It was my last chance to be a winner . |
| 27 | People and animals portray in this , in the Tahiti painting , never seemed to be in a hurry , erm , even when always relaxed even when working and I wondered how much of this was cultural and erm , how much was due to the large amounts of erm drugs consumed in most paintings at this , this period but that I suppose I 'll , I 'll never know for sure about , erm with this painting I found in the background , er there 's a figure , that 's looking in on the situation and I , I for myself think 's its probably Gaugin , as he portrays himself as Christ , which I think he did quite a lot to me in , in , in a few of his paintings and so this painting gave me tremendous sense of being looked in on and this figure in the background , was the person that was doing the looking in . |
| 28 | A substantial number of these students have either been speakers of RP or had accents only slightly different from it , and their usual reaction to being told to use for the vowel at the end of ‘ easy ’ , ‘ busy ’ has been one of puzzlement and frustration ; like them , I can not equate this vowel with the vowel of ‘ bit ’ . |
| 29 | Adequacy of communication is an essential part of nursing , not only to reduce patients ' complaints but to permit nurses to comply with their professional duty to be accountable . |
| 30 | The mistress of the church school in a Somersetshire parish in 1805 was not a widow but still sufficiently poor for her ten-year-old son to be killed working in a coal mine . |