Example sentences of "[pron] [subord] [pron] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | review with them where they 're at , record how they 're doing , you know tra , I mean I ca n't tell them to do that , but actually ask them to spend five or ten minutes each session talking to different pupils and what they 've been doing and you know even if it 's a personal timetable some people wo n't get into it but it 's you know , trying to get them to be what are tutors are , you know , I 'd like them to do . |
| 2 | And I would rather be yours than anybody 's in the whole world ! |
| 3 | but you 're on about something else , you said the first thing I 'd do , that 's got nothing to do with Harold Wilson the first thing I if I were in power |
| 4 | And we 're , we are , we 're ourselves if you 're in a mess then people out there have got virtually no training other than what they 've been given |
| 5 | At Folasade 's school , asking someone if she was on the Pill was the way of asking her if she was sleeping with her boyfriend or not . |
| 6 | That you must only love someone if it 's worth it ? |
| 7 | Yes cos I when I was with B P for six years , a non-contributory pension scheme , I lost every you know |
| 8 | I had a fling with someone when I was at college , but that was the only occasion . |
| 9 | This is the sort of situation which leads to our distinguishing ‘ ourselves as we feel ourselves to be ’ and ‘ ourselves as we are to others ’ . |
| 10 | As Anthony Alexander , the group 's chief operating officer in Britain , put it , ‘ If we think we can get more for them than they are worth to us , we will sell . ’ |
| 11 | So one reason why many women are less easily aroused in the morning may well be because social factors are more important for them than they are for men . |
| 12 | The thing that worked best when we were going through an investigation was to get individual kids to come and explain it … mind you they made such a racket applauding them when they 'd finished etc. , but I felt they were listening more carefully to them than they were to me ! |
| 13 | It 's much harder on them than it is on you . ) |
| 14 | There are many more of them than there were in highly competitive professions , in the law , the civil service , the universities , management , trade unions , and the media . |
| 15 | It is precluded because the model gives power to the shareholders to appoint and dismiss the directors and power to supervise them once they are in office . |
| 16 | She no longer came in to kiss them once they were in bed . |
| 17 | actually no that was the night she was really pissed off because erm people were paying more attention to me than they were to her , I do n't know why , it 's because I decide that I 'm gon na be really outgoing and I really do and I was really loud and really boisterous and she 's quite resigned like that and she thought I sh bit shagged off with me and then like I was doing , there was this really good looking bloke and he was like we , we 'd given each other eyes over the bar in this pub and Lottie goes well if you do n't hurry up with him I 'm gon na go and have him , if you do n't hurry up , you know , and just like marched over I said Charlotte give me a break |
| 18 | London is different to me than it is to you . |
| 19 | Indeed the detailed , cautious , inconclusive report of the commission is probably now of more interest to outsiders like me than it is to the Kenyans . |
| 20 | ‘ Rid yourself of the notion , sir , ’ he said on a menacing note , ‘ that it is any more acceptable to me than it is to you ! ’ |
| 21 | Once a Met Officer remarked cheerfully to me ( from the warmth and light of the office ) , that the rats were much more frightened of me than I was of them , but I noticed that he did n't take me up on my suggestion that he should come out with me and see for himself . |
| 22 | There was no danger … he was more frightened of me than I was of him … but that 's not the point … if it had been an old lady … he coulde have given her a heart attack … |
| 23 | He 'll get that in time to move out himself if he 's on the level , too late to do you any harm if he 's not . ’ |
| 24 | Section 34(2) provides for the application to be made by the authority or the child and the question has been raised whether the child , in that context , means the child himself if he is of sufficient age and understanding to make the application . |
| 25 | There 's work in plenty if we 're to be finished on time . |
| 26 | Then once more he would ask himself whether he was among the Elect or whether the Day of Grace might have already come and gone . |
| 27 | As Juliet scurried shocked to the cocktail cabinet , Charles asked himself whether he was in fact an alcoholic . |
| 28 | North had apparently asked himself whether it was worth it , to die in Vietnam : |
| 29 | But there seems no room for any notion of the decorous in Olson 's ‘ objectism ’ , any more than there is room for it in the lawless world of the Cantos , or in Pound himself when he is without a master to translate , whose example makes him surpass himself . |
| 30 | The sequence of practice will include work that the student can do without the teacher ; there should also be other reference material so that the learner can help himself when he is on his own . |