Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] be [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of these days I 'll go out like this and scare the whole population , 'cos they 'll think I 'm in me bare pelt . ’ |
| 2 | He says he told Hunt , when the latter came barging into the Lotus motor-home in protest , that if Hunt ‘ did n't know I was alongside him , he was like a horse with blinkers on ’ . |
| 3 | Well you do n't know you 're on it until you hit it and then you just lose your steering and your wheels just go all over the place |
| 4 | If she did n't know she was worth it , worth everything , then by God , Jay would leave her in no doubt . |
| 5 | ‘ Sir , how come you were behind us in the corridor and now you 're in front of us here ? ’ |
| 6 | Well Ken , has it been worth it ? |
| 7 | But he knew he would not see them here — they were much further north and anyway he would know he was near them when the crows gave way to a different more sinister corvid-the hooded crows , the vicious crows whose kind had once nearly succeeded in killing Minch when she was trapped near Callanish . |
| 8 | Has he been on it ? |
| 9 | Has he been in it ? |
| 10 | I say it 's like him him not paying his poll tax . |
| 11 | ‘ He 's just jealous because each time the telephone rings it 's for me and not for him . |
| 12 | It maybe wants it 's like mine , cos all upstairs wants balancing . |
| 13 | Of course they say he 's beneath us . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ But just for now , ’ she pleaded , ‘ For tonight , let me be with him in my thoughts , Cati dear . ’ |
| 15 | Jenny said erm , this time it said I could n't stand , when we all come out at twelve o'clock and the shock had hit us and we sort of said oh well we 're better off out of it , I 'll , I 've survived twenty five years without , I shall survive again , and when Jan , and Janet was so sick and then I turn round and Janet says I 'm with you girl , I said where you going ? |
| 16 | Every day I go to him , pretending you 're with me . |
| 17 | It is cheating a bit , I fear , to think of the Basque Coast as Pyrenean , because at this end of the chain , unlike at the other , the mountains fight shy of the water and make a decisive turn to the west some miles inland , to enter Spain ; so you can see the most northerly or westerly Pyrenees easily enough from points along the coast , but you ca n't feel you are among them . |
| 18 | I hope she 's worth it . ’ |
| 19 | Well , dear , hope she 's worth it ! |
| 20 | At nights he imagined she was beside him in bed , naked and wanton , submitting eagerly to his advances . |
| 21 | She had already discovered to her cost just how strongly attracted she was to him on a physical level . |
| 22 | and he says he 's after me and he just puts his arm round me and then he 's alright after that |
| 23 | And if Mattie says he was with her , I 've no doubt he was . |
| 24 | Now lets just close with those words of of Peter , on the day of pentecost , it 's not for other just , he says it 's for you , it 's for your children , and it 's to as many as there are far off , right down through the centuries , as many as the Lord our God shall call . |
| 25 | Christopher Court , MP , had no difficulty in getting straight through on the telephone to Chief Superintendent Coffin once he had decided it was to him he wished to speak . |
| 26 | They did n't feel for example they could go into the advice centre , they did n't feel it was for them . |
| 27 | ‘ Do you still feel he 's with you ? ’ |
| 28 | He will try Rowntrees again , and said : ‘ I hope it 's worth it . ’ |
| 29 | It costs plenty , but I figure it 's worth it . |
| 30 | She was willing to be used by him and the outrageous request received the obedient , ‘ Let it be to me according to your word ’ ( Luke 1.38 ) . |