Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [pers pn] [be] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either that or it 's someone very clever . |
| 2 | Externally conformist and controlled , her journal functions as the confidant she never had : ‘ My head feels empty and I am nothing particular . |
| 3 | But every little detail seemed crucial and it was something I struggled with all the way through , but knowing that Cathy , Joan and I were all on the same wavelength and felt the same level of commitment was a great relief . |
| 4 | And they said he never said much to them , well he perhaps did n't , he would n't do because he was like that you see , but pra before interviewing him on television , er of course the War came and India was given freedom , and er there used to be you know the Sweet people who used to have a big factory on Road , was a very famous sweet in them days , I do n't think they are now , but was a very good sweet firm , and they 'd got a daughter cos she was in the , during the War the Anglo-Soviet Friendship er she was one of the course they 'd got hundreds but she was one . |
| 5 | Now did they give you that and it 's something you do n't need or do you think maybe it 's something you do need ? |
| 6 | Four pints of that and I 'm anybody 's . |
| 7 | Now as someone who 's taught at other institutions — I 've taught at the University of Kent and at Middlesex Polytechnic — I think I was aware of the level of harassment which erm was there in those institutions , there certainly was sexual harassment , it certainly was a problem , but I have to say it did n't seem to me to be the problem that the students have identified it as being in Oxford and I think that 's striking and it 's something that erm as tutors and as a university we really do have to think about . |
| 8 | Calton left the Army in the late Seventies but he was nothing like the characters from the award-winning TV drama Civvies . |
| 9 | I know and I feel sick but it 's something just to feel this certain about anything again . |
| 10 | The words sounded fine but it was someone else 's story . |
| 11 | The atmosphere may as they say be electric but it 's nothing compared with the nervous energy being generated in this box . |
| 12 | If you know that a dessert is likely to be particularly rich but it is something you relish , then do not eat so much of the main course ; you will then be hungry enough to enjoy the dessert without feeling sick or bloated . |
| 13 | That 's probably why I 've been getting low but it 's something funny . . |
| 14 | For me this is the most exciting development of them all and it is something I 've believed in for many years . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've learnt a lot off the television but I think I still need to know more and it is something I think we all worry about . ’ |
| 16 | We 've got so many core objectives we 've got like A one and it 's something like |
| 17 | We do n't cover a great deal of the M one but it 's something like fourteen miles but that was about the time of the miners ' strike as well so I was on traffic when that was on and we had these intercept boys who were working something like thirteen hour shifts for about a year . |
| 18 | From now on ‘ Laura Ashley ’ was Welsh or it was nothing . |
| 19 | But I thought that erm barn dance or something like that would be favourite cos it 's not too expensive and it 's something that everybody can muck in on . |
| 20 | Yeah , all I wanted was go in and , now we 're bankrupt and we 're nowt where we are . |
| 21 | I 've seen , it 's all this one , it 's alright but it 's nothing special . |