Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun sg] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then started the discussion about where to store it until the inevitable happened , during the course of which the doorbell rang and an elderly neighbour was revealed who had kindly called to introduce himself and to ask if there was anything he could do to help me , as he had heard my husband was ill in hospital . |
| 2 | But do you think my bum 's big ? |
| 3 | For standing on the , on the seats you see , which I mean my father was right he 'd got the experience to know that several men had been drowned like that . |
| 4 | And maybe hope that we as , as people as women need to do is regain control of our lives so they , they belong to us , so it does n't matter if if boys say we 've got fat bottoms or not , yo you say my bottom 's alright an and you live with that . |
| 5 | They say my accent is 'orrible , but at least I can understand what they 're saying on the pitch and suss out their Machiavellian little games . ’ |
| 6 | They say my leg is dodgy but how could I referee a game like this one if that were the case . ’ |
| 7 | Say my valet is alive and well and has an excellent memory . |
| 8 | ’ If the police say my vehicle is unroadworthy then I 'll accept that , but then we still need somewhere to live . ’ |
| 9 | I did n't know my father was dead and my mother in hospital . ’ |
| 10 | Has my presence been bad for Rainbow ? |
| 11 | But this same lady makes it clear that she does not know which side is right . |
| 12 | I do not know which figure is correct , although the Minister did not contradict my Hon. Friend in Committee . |
| 13 | And that 's why the Ross on Wye firm say its business is booming , while Jensen is more than half a million pounds in the red . |
| 14 | The mechanism by which the context-CS association has its effect is different but the principle is just that adopted by Wagner ( 1976 , 1981 ) . |
| 15 | Pug people say their club is classless , but the dogs do seem to attract a certain kind of owner . |
| 16 | But they say their action was necessary to free it . |
| 17 | It became a pattern to work in Paris after a season or two in England but if a replacement was urgently needed , any dancer who caught her attention was likely to be shipped abroad . |
| 18 | She yawned , to show how tired she was , and to her dismay found her excuse was genuine . |
| 19 | ‘ She wanted the world to know her life was perfect when she knew it was n't . ’ |
| 20 | When the thought of conquering England first entered his mind is unknown . |
| 21 | If KC repeated ‘ girl ’ as ‘ curn ’ because that is how he heard it , he would not know his response was wrong . |
| 22 | Evil may have intelligence , but the Devil 's strategies against the church are not , it seems to me , to be understood as rational military strategies , rather they are more like desperate and increasingly vicious attacks ( does he know his time is short ? ) . |
| 23 | The common people do not blame me or my husband for Buckingham 's downfall but say his fate was star-crossed by this house . |
| 24 | Now he was not only unable to remember the names of politicians , sportsmen and television personalities , he also found his memory was unable to supply the personal details of people he had known since he was a child . |
| 25 | The autopsy found his stomach was empty , and in his bag was a tin of sardines , which had remained stubbornly closed to his frozen fingers . |
| 26 | I spat into my fingers and used them , then found his foreskin was loose enough to be rolled back and forth over the head , and did that for a while . |
| 27 | He let his amusement be apparent . |
| 28 | Obliged to give her full attention to the crowd around her , Rory felt a stab of annoyance dagger-sharp when she finally managed to glance over towards the mystery man 's table , only to discover his seat was empty . |
| 29 | The important thing about exercise is to know what kind is safe and how much is enough . |
| 30 | It is important to know what help is forthcoming for you or for the elderly person for whom you are caring . |