Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That I maintained my usual composure was to me a miracle , and once more we were on our way to the frontier . |
| 2 | Yeah , and I said erm , and I said that were n't , if that was n't enough I said bearing in mind he 'd just come out of intensive care off a life support machine , I said and which I think that , that tells us that he needs a bit of extra care compared to some of them on the ward , I said I know they 're all important and I know you 're busy but I said I think you should 've had a bit of priority , he was dying , and you know he 's dying , you 'd been told , she said yes that 's right , I said but what really broke my bloody heart was from one o'clock that dinner time he sat in that chair , we left that hospital at half past eight and you assured us he 'd go to bed and when we came in the next morning at half past ten Joy he sat there exactly the bloody same , in the same filthy blanket and the same catheter on him , oh I went fucking mad and I said how dare you , I said because somebody 's told they 're dying does that mean they 've got to be forgot ? |
| 3 | My trousers had been removed with some force as my right leg was in a great deal of pain around the cast . |
| 4 | However , almost all my political connections were on the Left and my Labour friends , acquired relatively late in life ( apart from George Wigg , most of them after I was forty years of age ) , were a source of delight and novelty to me . |
| 5 | Oh my whizzy holder 's in the , in the , in the ruck |
| 6 | ‘ The headmaster of my old school was from Cambridge . |
| 7 | My favourite stories were of exotic places , of Fawcett exploring the Amazon or of Arctic whalers . |
| 8 | My favourite cousin is in remission , a transplant is now possible , my favourite girl has found her natural mother — and I have found the girl I want to spend the rest of my life with . ’ |
| 9 | Rosa Guy is also very descriptive and emotional in her writing , one of my favourite descriptions is on pages 53–54 which tells us how Mrs Aimsley has all her glasses set out on shelves and the higher the shelf , the more expensive the glass and of course not being used to drinking out of glasses , Imamu takes the most expensive type from which to drink milk and syrup and after washing and drying it , he put it back on the shelf , but as he takes his hand away , the glass tips over and falls , smashing on the sink . |
| 10 | My favourite cartoon is of a businessman standing in Wall Street selling boxes of matches and around his neck is a placard which says : ‘ I left it all to expert advice . ’ |
| 11 | And my favourite fantasies were of walking across country after country until I reached some strange place no one had ever visited . |
| 12 | My favourite house was in Leicester . |
| 13 | My hon. Friend is to be congratulated . |
| 14 | My hon. Friend is in the same party as I am , as far as I understand . |
| 15 | My teenage daughter is on a diet . |
| 16 | My dearest love , I chatter about all sorts of odd news , when I really only want to tell you that my real self is in your keeping . |
| 17 | My real home is in the country near Hungerford . |
| 18 | My real preference is for Surrealist work , though watered down a bit . |
| 19 | My real aim is to one day see a lot of young people coming up to do exactly what I am doing . |
| 20 | Even my quick-reaction steelies were beyond reach in time , though ; the rabbit was on me in a half-second , heading straight for my throat . |
| 21 | My personal thoughts are of a collection of official Junkers models I once saw in Frankfurt , these included an F.13 and most unusual , a Ju52/3m floatplane all sectioned-off to show not only technical , but also cabin accommodation details . |
| 22 | My personal preference is for Michelin as I have had many years and miles of trouble free use from them . |
| 23 | My personal preference is for valve amps as the sound obtained is generally warmer , but the transistor amps offer a better power/weight ratio , not to mention the cost factor ! |
| 24 | It 's a good way of doing it , just saying , ‘ Well , my personal view is of course this is a tragedy . |
| 25 | Although there is much good stuff here and I shall undoubtedly find it a useful reference , on putting it down my chief desire was to out and solo something barefoot ! |
| 26 | Well it so happens I was not born in Nottingham , though my early memories are of Nottingham , right even from infant school , which er started at five years of age till about seven . |
| 27 | Anyway he went about in railway jobs as the years went by and I was born in , taken with the rest to Leicester , City of Leicester , but my early memories was in Nottingham . |
| 28 | ‘ The majority of my early songs were about my first girlfriend . |
| 29 | My early training was in the sciences . |
| 30 | I joined the committee and my principal activity was in the end to assist in procuring its dissolution . |