Example sentences of "[pron] be [noun] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I love it when a plan does n't work how dry I am , how dry I am , nobody knows how dry I am will you get me whisky for me ? |
| 2 | Anyway , what I 'm askin' you to do now is to get on your feet and go and get me a drop of gin and a couple of pints of beer . ’ |
| 3 | She 's only six , I said yes we 'll just knock on the door and say I 'm Lisa I 've come to tea |
| 4 | You know and I said I , I 'm Margaret you know , Adrian from the City Council was you know I , er sort of thing like that , I was trying to think how I was going to say it |
| 5 | I 'm doubtfull he 's but unfitt for anything requires attendance ’ . |
| 6 | When Red and I were kids we had races jumping on ponies in the fields and galloping them round a tree and back without a bridle . |
| 7 | Well cos at er , there were n't enough tide to take it away , I mean you ta you get clay well that 's , that 's solid and the amount of stuff I was dredge they use and use it , now we 're not the only ones got it , they got people from Harwich , people from Felixstowe , they were all dumping out there . |
| 8 | Notable among these is the fact that the mismatch of range is even greater than in the case of the prenominal adjectives ; it is true that one can usually expand a postnominal adjective to a relative clause containing be , though we should certainly note cases like : ( 31 ) he is dreaming of the whisky which will be galore with her arms which were akimbo she stared at Victor food which is aplenty is on sale in the end tent however , there is not the slightest difficulty about producing numerous examples where the relative clause with be is fully satisfactory but can not be reduced to a grammatical postnominal adjective . |
| 9 | I missed out at geography , which I loved , English Lit , French , art and maths , all of which were subjects I enjoyed . |
| 10 | whereas other parts they have gone into more detail which is ones they 've gone into more details with |
| 11 | Evidence of the Host 's appearance is said to be the red crotal ( lichen ) stain found on rocks the morning after a heavy frost , which is blood they have spilled during their aerial spats . |
| 12 | You 'll provide us with sufficient entries so that the people who are man it get in and car parking . |
| 13 | Ah , like , like to see who you are Mrs I see , thank you . . |
| 14 | There you are David I bet you picked one up in your |
| 15 | and when you 're kids they seemed so big ! |
| 16 | He had a limp , he had a false leg , and of course , when you 're kids it strikes you as very funny to have a woodwork teacher with a wooden leg , so he 'd say , ‘ What shall we make today , kids ? ’ and we 'd go ‘ Want another leg , sir ? ’ and things like that . |
| 17 | When you 're vice-president you have a lot more spare time . ’ |
| 18 | Er recordwise it never happened and does never seem to happen but we can go to America and work in the Irish centres and the Irish clubs and be an Irish band but er the way we could come over here and do a concert to people in general , it does n't I think the radio situation in America for years was al always very if you were folk you played in folk programme , if you were country you 'll play in the country prog whereas here in Britain there 's one great thing with the radio system , people tend to play whatever you know if it 's easy listening programme they play whatever is is nice and easy listening you know . |
| 19 | And when you were pros you did , you got all the mucky jobs to do as well . |
| 20 | Yeah she 's Katie she bought what were her chances of re-ordering it you know |
| 21 | Ah she 's Lyn she 's er got it all wrong I think , she thinks she wins men 's affections like by sleeping with them all . |
| 22 | and Amy 's cousin Claire and then this girl who 's hair I do |
| 23 | This girl who 's hair I do erm her little girl , Karla cor she 's if I found a little girl to look like her , I 'd have one ! |
| 24 | I squeeze between a pleasant-looking , well-built car repairer called Bob and an enormously furry small-businessman who 's name I fail to ascertain , and we all smile at each other . |
| 25 | Now who 's who 's James you ride a little bit now and then Richard will . |
| 26 | You do get some kids though no matter where they are , who 's house they go into that you know , strangers and they , they behave in a sort of a , a wild fashion do n't they ? |
| 27 | Kathy is the one , yeah no that 's right , yeah , she is Kathy I du n no I just sort of get those two muddled up I do n't know why , anyway erm t Kathy was just talking right and she |
| 28 | She was Jonah I expect . |
| 29 | When we are babies we cry so that our parents will pick us up and cuddle us . |
| 30 | NO CRIME PLEASE , WE 'RE IOFCs It has been estimated that half the world 's financial transactions by value involve an offshore centre directly or indirectly . |