Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [pers pn] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did erm , have you seen this and it 's for when you eh , eh change your week ending . |
| 2 | She looked right at O and Boy when she said this and it was as if she was trying to scare them in particular , even as if she was trying to frighten them away from each other , as if she was saying , to them , and to all of us , this is what you have to go through , right ? |
| 3 | Our efforts to meet the company have so far been unsuccessful , but as far as we understand from the AEU ( which has a single union agreement with Montupet ) , there are no special mechanisms to target recruitment and training on the unemployed and it is worth bearing in mind that the code of practice of the new Fair Employment Act puts the idea of the merit principle above that of equality of outcome or the achievement of social justice . |
| 4 | But you know what I mean ; when a marriage or relationship is going wrong and it 's like everything that one person says or does n't say , or does or does n't do , seems to rub the other one up the wrong way . |
| 5 | But on one of these days , and you hit the road there 's been an accident , somebody 's dug the road up , there 's something wrong and you 're in a traffic jam . |
| 6 | The hours devoted to farm work by the part-time farmers was fairly high and it was in these predominantly part-time farm areas that the discrepancy between hours required and hours worked was highest . |
| 7 | ‘ But I went back to my first dancing teacher who taught me when I was 12 and it was like five hours of physiotherapy every day . |
| 8 | Eleven years old and you 're in elementary now ! |
| 9 | And er of course as I tell you , I finished when I was thirteen years old and I was on this er bottle washing stunt and o one chap as lived next door to us , back at er at Road he got me his this job on the farm . |
| 10 | Well that baby were n't ten days old and she was past here at eight o'clock in the morning ! |
| 11 | I was then a year old and she was with us till I was nearly four . |
| 12 | Any consultation is free and you are under no obligation to act on our advice . |
| 13 | Road junctions are few and they are of importance to travellers and especially to tourists on a first visit . |
| 14 | Sandison was not surprised by this but he was at a loss as to how to proceed . |
| 15 | In general the activities of the masses were though of as mindless but they were at least non-political and in many cases they even encouraged the acceptance of social norms and new routines necessary to urban and industrial life . |
| 16 | Hardy abandoned his architectural career in 1872 but it was by no means the end of his interest in the subject . |
| 17 | Rhaw 's collection of Newe deudsche geistliche Gesenge ( 1544 ) was not the earliest collection of polyphonic Lutheran hymn-compositions — Walter 's Gesangbüchlein ( see p. 220 ) reached its fifth edition in the same year and the Concentus novi trium vocum of Hans Kugelmann ( d. 1542 ) had appeared at Augsburg in 1540 but it was by far the most important . |
| 18 | The reason for this is not clear but it is worth noting that McCamman et al noted that ‘ explosive diarrhoea , gas , cramps , sweating , and feeling light headed were common complaints ’ after healthy volunteers finished an elemental regimen and started to eat food . |
| 19 | Everyone gets very wet but it is worth while getting soaked if it saves even one glider from serious damage . |
| 20 | But he was a proper But it was in his back yard , he was killing it and hanging it up in the window there . |
| 21 | Not only was a large proportion of Communist Party membership unemployed but it was in the shattered heavy industrial areas that there seemed some possibility of gaining support in the " revolutionary " phase through which the Party was passing . |
| 22 | Sometimes there 's just the totally outrageous funny answers to , sort of , some of the questions , sometimes they 're similar and it 's like verversity woman 's preference for mens clothes . |
| 23 | However , conditions for the time of the year seemed favourable and I was in hopeful mood as I rowed carefully out on the meadow side to a drop-off at about 70 yards I knew to be there . |
| 24 | It 's purely quantitative and it 's in terms of the size of the sex cell . |
| 25 | I I do n't think that 's a problem because we 're doing erm we 're doing two blocks of six and we 're onto the fourth of the first block now , but then the second block comes up in September and October , so it 's certainly in time for that . |
| 26 | This is all splendid and we are on Lewis 's side . |
| 27 | Right my youngest is nineteen and she 's at university so |
| 28 | That 's why I say to you , you say oh we 've got this we 've got that we want that we want this but er I tell you two thousand nineteen and you 're at nineteen ninety two . |
| 29 | Then there was nothing but the river running wide and strong and dark and it was as if the highway had never existed . |
| 30 | The room was dark but it was as if there was something fluttering in it . |