Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pron] be [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the Information and Technology Department by British Aerospace , and that thanks is not used from Apex , it 's also from M S S at or acknowledged it was your efforts and not their that brought that conference about . |
| 2 | The only people who can hurt or compliment me are my friends |
| 3 | Or had it been his sister ? |
| 4 | But behind everything she did was a raw power that emphasised she was her own woman . |
| 5 | And it is the exciting part of my job is to make these links work , start to build on them , and over our links in the city on the environmental and group with Tony Benn , that 's that 's doing a very good job , he is a platform for this , for each other , but I think there 's a lot more we can do locally erm within the city to build those links , and to work together for better answers for the city , and I hope that , on a practical level , one of the things that interested me was your grants team for local organisations , and I would like to think myself here today , we might look at the health authority , and try to join with them to make some erm practical contribution , particularly to those many carers , and groups of people who have problems , and we 're not all just professionals best able to put over during our normal nine-to-five or eight-to-eight days , we we can . |
| 6 | They greeted us formally and elegantly , in a manner that suggested we were their guests . |
| 7 | ‘ The real thing that shocks me is my own stupidity , ’ Sabine said curtly , brushing away the caressing hand . |
| 8 | ‘ But the balance sheets that you gave Craig and the fact that the thefts went on while he was in prison , did n't all that prove it was his brother 's fault ? ’ |
| 9 | They stopped him and asked which was his mother , but the King 's son said , " You let him alone . |
| 10 | Then I looked at the chassis and registration numbers and realised it was my old car . |
| 11 | He told me , some time after we were married , that when he was at school he used to show round a photograph one of his mother 's lovers had taken of part of Versailles , and say it was his grandfather 's rectory in Ireland . |
| 12 | ‘ If you do it quickly and say you 're my doctor . |
| 13 | PC TONY Spong arrested a man at a burgled petrol station — and found it was his brother . |
| 14 | He had said he might be late , after all , and she decided to snatch a few more moments of privacy to recharge her batteries in the one place in the whole luxurious house where she was able to relax and feel she was her own person . |
| 15 | aha and he says I 've been to the nice wee man he says he remembers ah going round all the houses looking for somebody to do in Apple Street and he went and told what 's his name ? |
| 16 | Then she smiled , stroking Melanie 's face again , so tenderly that Melanie closed her eyes and imagined it was her own mother caressing her or any mother caressing any child . |
| 17 | So the High Priest brings it all together and says what 's your answer . |
| 18 | Now that they gone independent , we 've got to again look and see what are our roles there . |
| 19 | There is , it seems to me , a danger of treating the communities we study as pawns in some cosmic game of micro and macro processes , locating reality in the microprocesses of social interaction we observe in our villages and treating what is our subjects as something that is either less than reality or reality of a different kind or order . |
| 20 | He had seen the tremble jelly of a captain 's chin and known it was his uniform and the blue unit tabs that won it . |
| 21 | And then we we 're sending them the net list and saying there 's your new le er price |
| 22 | Who 's the complete pillock who thinks he can send commercial programs and pretend they 're his own ? |
| 23 | I used to put a mop on my head and pretend it was my hair . |
| 24 | At least in what other poorer women were telling me , when it came to after work and weekends the men were quite the women were prepared to look after the children and felt it was their role to look after the children while the man was at work ; when the man came back he continued to feel that the woman should look after the children erm for the rest of the time , and the idea of a shared child care arrangement did not operate in at least a number of the families that I talked to and had been one of the causes of the breakdown of the marriage and one of the precipitating factors in the man physically abusing the woman . |
| 25 | But when he threw open the door to a room upstairs she saw a trouser-press and a black silk robe flung on a chair and knew it was his bedroom . |
| 26 | It reminded her forcibly of the way she had felt when she walked into her flat and saw Damian Flint standing beside Jenny , and thought he was her secret lover . |
| 27 | And suddenly the kitchen door — we all lived in the kitchen — burst open , and standing there was my father with the most effulgent smile on his face . |
| 28 | It 's an embarrassment for people to come in and catch cold and think it 's your mattresses that 's done it . |
| 29 | When the sister was summoned up and said it was her grave had been dug , he realised there was nothing more he could do and the whole thing was adjourned to the community centre for a couple of hours while big men with shovels rather grudgingly got to work . ’ |
| 30 | After she was dead , after we had said the prayers for her , her son , the young one , brought it to me , all newly furbished like this , and said it was her wish that I should have it , for a musician without an instrument is a warrior without weapon or armour . |