Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] [adv] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As your co-trustee I have not been inattentive to my duty … and I in no shape deserve to be the object of the prosecution of my co-trustees . |
| 2 | For my part it brought to light fascinating aspects of English language use about whose existence I had previously been quite unaware — or , perhaps better , about whose extent I had previously been quite unaware . |
| 3 | You know the thing is I feel that when I was tried to get the theatre board and I have contacted various people on the board I have never been listened to . |
| 4 | the thing , the thing that erm worries me is in case I go over is , that you say |
| 5 | I 've been called a dragon in my time , Shelley , but in my case I 've knowingly been an old crosspatch sometimes . ’ |
| 6 | Well , to be fair , that 's not always the case , and in this instance I 've definitely been forced into something of a rethink . |
| 7 | On the plus side was the fact that the Foreign Office and the years spent in Cabinet were a good apprenticeship , while in addition I had never been afraid of taking decisions . |
| 8 | ‘ Except for losing Mum I 've always been lucky , but it 's bound to change sometime . ’ |
| 9 | Well what I said to Gary I said when was the last time I ever wanted anything |
| 10 | But of course I 've not been in the market you , you know . |
| 11 | And of course I 've never been introduced to you properly . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Of course I 've never been able to cook . |
| 13 | I and I took to Connor 's Quay as a sailing ship and I and then of course I had n't been much in sailing ships . |
| 14 | ‘ Of course I have n't been in any rackets . |
| 15 | ‘ And I think he may have found my jewel box upstairs , but of course I have n't been up there to see . |
| 16 | So I was trying to spare and it 's really the most coldest branch I 've ever been in . |
| 17 | The best jumper I came across was the Argentinian , Llanes , who outfoxed me time and again . |
| 18 | You know it 's , it 's the money I mean why is anybody doing anything |
| 19 | Some of these projects I mean just are ongoing , you do n't just go to a meeting and |
| 20 | I all the forms I 've before are version numbered and dated . |
| 21 | this was the very cable I have formerly been trying to make without success . |
| 22 | It 's the other kind of thinking I 've never been able to muster , the long-term stuff , ‘ Never confuse strategy with tactics , ’ one of my tutors advised me , but I ca n't even remember what the words mean . |
| 23 | You pass the chosen card and then finger another as if you feel it is going to be the right one and then say ‘ How much do you bet me that the next card I turn over is the chosen one ? ’ |
| 24 | The only animals I have n't been able to check on are the sheep . ’ |
| 25 | In the result I have not been persuaded that any doubt has been cast upon principles which are soundly directed as being both desirable and reasonable and which furthermore have for long been firmly established by authority . |
| 26 | ‘ God knows , Brother , but I feel the only good I did today was to listen to Fitzormonde and help that child . |
| 27 | The fight was the most fierce of any Indiana engagement I have ever been in … |
| 28 | ‘ For the last few months I 've really been feeling together , an integrated personality for the first time since my breakdown . |
| 29 | One of the books I re-read forever is ‘ Robinson Crusoe ’ and another is ‘ Treasure Island ’ and these , to me , are the great examples of the plain style , I could n't write in a baroque style . |
| 30 | In Uganda I had always been keen on the latest styles , trying new clothes from week to week . |