Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] be [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I 'm warm and tired and the ground 's soft , so I just lie down where I am and shut my eyes . |
| 2 | ‘ I got a taxi , ’ she explained , remembering the odd look the driver had given her when she had confessed she had no idea where she was and wanted to go all the way to London . |
| 3 | Maybe if she just stayed where she was and did n't answer the telephone or the doorbell , did n't let anybody in , if she did n't eat , then maybe she would die too — fairly quickly , and that would solve it all . |
| 4 | If you would like to continue working , arguably the easiest solution if your employer is agreeable is for you to remain where you are and to defer your pension . |
| 5 | The book gives you a clear insight into the complexities of piloting a fast jet at low altitude , keeping tabs on exactly where you are and planning on the wing exactly where you want to be within an acceptable tolerance at a checkpoint of plus or minus five seconds . |
| 6 | I 've seen her several times and before you rang me at the theatre , she had promised to find out where you were and tell me . ’ |
| 7 | Nothing better illustrates the impossibility of separating off the individual personality from the wider social groups of which he or she is or has been a member , than the analysis of the development of conscience , that is , in Freud 's terminology , the superego . |
| 8 | that he or she is or has been a director of a company which has at any time become insolvent ( whether while he or she was a director or subsequently ) ; and |
| 9 | So we stayed where we were and waited with apprehension to see what would happen . |
| 10 | However , on the basis of our general studies in adoption , children also need to feel secure where they are and have that security sealed by law ( Triseliotis , 1983 ; Triseliotis and Hill , 1987 ) . |
| 11 | Set up under the Bonn Convention on migratory species , the agreement obliges its members — Belgium , Denmark , Finland , Germany , Greece , Ireland , Luxembourg , the Netherlands , Norway , Sweden and the UK — to protect bats in the various ways that bats can be protected : finding out where they are and conserving their habitats , studying them , controlling pesticides and stopping people from killing them . |
| 12 | Hazel realized that until they were rested they would all be safer where they were than stumbling along in the open , with no strength left to run from an enemy . |
| 13 | Everyone stopped where they were and stared as she pointed dramatically at a dark green house plant which stood on some kind of plinth behind the seat she 'd been allocated . |
| 14 | Sometimes they were so drunk they fell asleep where they were and lay without pillows or covers until I returned from work , and then I would rage at them in Arabic , telling them that thanks to them my room was no better than the Italian 's pigsty at home ; we used to spit on the ground whenever we went near it , children and grownups alike , shouting exclamations of disgust , even though all we could see of it was the outer fence . |
| 15 | My mum does n't have a clue where he is and says she does n't think she can divorce him because of this for all we know he could be dead . |
| 16 | My mum does n't have a clue where he is and says she does n't think she can divorce him because of this for all we know he could be dead . |
| 17 | Morse said nothing , but sat where he was and picked up the Railway Gazette from the door-pocket and pretended to read it ; then did read it — for a few seconds . |
| 18 | They had not , they said , but they had a lot of reliable relatives and could easily find out where he was and deliver any message I wanted to send him , if he was there . |
| 19 | If I take it to the police the matter will be dealt with much sooner than if we leave it where it is and wait for them to call here . |
| 20 | ‘ So I hailed a taxi outside the motel and just said British Committee and he knew immediately where it was and drove me straight there . ’ |
| 21 | They then spent the rest of the lesson — the first part had taken twenty minutes — in writing an account of why Rome was settled where it was and comparing it with the legends that they knew concerning Rome . |
| 22 | I could have my own contributions returned or I could leave my pension where it was and draw it at the age of sixty-five . |
| 23 | ‘ Put everything back where it was and start the engine , ’ she screamed . |
| 24 | Taking her courage in both hands , she left her bag where it was and turned the knob , pushing open the door into the kitchen which smelled so warm and inviting and blessedly familiar that a lump rose in her throat . |
| 25 | Willi was about four inches shorter than she was and tended to take bouncy steps . |
| 26 | Moreover , if the moral judgment which we require to make is one which involves our own personal interest we might reasonably look to the relevant law as representing a less partial view of the matter than our own ; for , without attributing to the law a non-partisan impartiality at variance with most available knowledge about the actual political and legal processes , it might still happen to be less partial and more informed than we are when making judgments about cases which affect us closely . |
| 27 | if that happens we 've got to market Intercity a lot harder than they are and take and take the work |
| 28 | Since workers made unemployed in general find themselves worse off receiving unemployment benefits than they were when working , we can say that only very rarely is full compensation ever paid . |
| 29 | Research suggests that they are as follows : |
| 30 | What is important is that they are and remain the orientations of most Britons , both at the mass and the elite level . |