Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On my return from Norway I found that the sports hall where I worked had been burnt down . |
| 2 | Where you went skiing is this side of Austria , but Vienna is about two hundred and two hundred and fifty miles further on across Austria , very close to erm Czechoslovakia and erm Yugoslavia . |
| 3 | Erm which would give you some contact with erm , er you know people who 'd er er just come out of prison or , or you know had been serving some sort of sentence or other , you know , maybe not a custodial one or something . |
| 4 | the client may not obtain the project he or she thought had been commissioned |
| 5 | What he or she has to say is always open to comment , questioning , refutation . |
| 6 | Where they do differ is that they know a great deal less about the properties of social and psychological phenomena than do the natural sciences about the properties of the natural world . |
| 7 | It appeared that the roof Billy had fallen off was in one Coroner 's jurisdiction , but where he 'd landed was in another 's . |
| 8 | Yeah you 're right it is champagne is that where it 's made is it ? |
| 9 | Any models between where the ball strikes the ground and where it comes to land are hit . |
| 10 | She did n't go out drinking or dancing ; she did n't do as one mother she 'd known ( in a story of maternal neglect that I remember feeling was over the top at the time ) and tie a piece of string round my big toe , dangle it through the window and down the front of the house , so that the drunken mother , returning from her carousing , could tug at it , wake the child , get the front door opened and send it down the shop for a basin of pie and peas . |
| 11 | TOM : You know what 's amazed me most of all that I 've seen is Big Tree . |
| 12 | ‘ Since I met Dorian Gray , the work that I 've done is good , the best work of my life . |
| 13 | Yeah but I mean I think the stuff , the stuff that I 've written is like rubbish , it 's like I du n no |
| 14 | Now the areas that I 've identified are the same ones as I put on the board last week . |
| 15 | The figures that er Mr Steel referred to on commuting flows neglect to refer to the inflow of commuters , the figures that I 've used are a net is a net figure which reflects outflow and inflow . |
| 16 | erm We 've had the two concept meetings for on track and great way too and basically I 'm going to do copy by tomorrow and then next week we can look at them , look at the copy , for both on track and and the stock dates that I 've got are the twenty first of August for both of them . |
| 17 | Well I think there is the the only report that I 've got is the fact that the financial summary er you 've seen at the same time as I have . |
| 18 | Well that I 've got is Daz , that Daz Ultra |
| 19 | You see there 's a general principle there is quite a lot of information in that cupboard that I keep saying 's there , have a look and as we get stuff |
| 20 | It is not proposed to discuss the aesthetics of this usage for the text writer ; all that I wish to say is that it should not be copied by the student , for in his mouth it sounds too grandiloquent . |
| 21 | The first items that I wish to acknowledge are from Mr Norman Wheeler of Stokesay . |
| 22 | The other subject that I wish to mention is the Immigration ( Carriers ' Liability ) Act 1987 . |
| 23 | The example that I wish to mention is drawn not only from the delayed start of the debate but from the organised barracking of the Chief Secretary to the Treasury orchestrated from the Back Benches by a Labour Whip . |
| 24 | Mr Deputy Speaker the last thing also that I wish to see is local authorities . |
| 25 | The horrible thing that I had created was standing by my bed . |
| 26 | ‘ But afterwards , I found that the noise that I had heard was the springing of rivets . |
| 27 | No envelopes that I had brought were suitable , so that night I made several of them , as I regularly did , strengthening ordinary ones with sticky tape , and making reusable fasteners out of wire from abandoned tyres . |
| 28 | On my return home I discovered that the plant that I had thought was a weed was in fact ‘ The Marvel of Peru ’ , first brought from Peru to Spain in the sixteenth century and John Gerard used to lift the roots in autumn and keep them in a butter firkin filled with sand . |
| 29 | I would remember the sunlight that I had thought was like wealth , redeemed and transformed beyond the reach of cupidity , and the shadows that were not black but the colour of great half-forgotten riches . |
| 30 | Evidence that there was a Borsholder here I believe can be derived from Borseholders Wood , a name that I think has been corrupted from Borsholder . |