Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] be [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm going to the Swindon match next Saturday & I was wondering if there was any chance of a lift from deepest London ? |
| 2 | After two hours she no longer believed that ordinary delays were keeping her daughter , who , according to her mother , was usually very punctilious about telling her if she was going to be late and where she was going as she knew her mother worried . |
| 3 | These assumptions will be detrimental to the black child if he or she is seen as being rescued from a life of misery . |
| 4 | Since a Prime Minister without a majority in the Commons is an impossibility , he or she is seen as in a position to make any law he or she sees as fit . |
| 5 | One important issue we have not considered is what happens to the individual once he or she is labelled as criminal . |
| 6 | Thin them as they grow , and then transplant them ( prick out ) 5 cm ( 2 in ) apart each way into boxes of potting compost , and finally plant them where they are to grow when they have filled the space available . |
| 7 | He put the milk bottles down on a small table in the hall , where they were to remain until Ianthe left , and as far as she knew , for ever after . |
| 8 | You ca n't away with er some bum figures like this one , it 's not good enough for the members to give , be given wrong information and I and I can tell you this we 'll be coming back again and then we would know and where they were getting where they were getting the seventeen homes |
| 9 | Dusty relics lay where they were left when the mill shut down . |
| 10 | Those clamps had to be locked at the Air Force base where they were loaded So they would have to have a key there . |
| 11 | He hung on to the semicircular rail around the outer edge , where they were standing because the businessmen who had got in after them had jostled them there , and she saw that his eyes were closed and that he had gone gray with fear about the drop . |
| 12 | The plants grow where they have put themselves or they are planted where they are most likely to thrive , and the best plants are worth repeating time and again . |
| 13 | CD reintroduces Pickwick , not very happily , in Master Humphrey 's Clock , where he is represented as joining Master Humphrey 's circle and supplying the story of Will Marks . |
| 14 | It can be detected out on the fairways , where he is acknowledged as being among cricket 's best golfers . |
| 15 | PRIZE : The Midland Study Centre prize for excellence in Construction Project Management has been won by Adrian Wheeler M. He started the MSc in Construction Project Management at the Centre , which is at the University of Central England , in 1990 sponsored by Dudley Health Authority where he was employed as capital works officer . |
| 16 | Eventually he was admitted as a voluntary patient to Napsbury Hospital , where he was diagnosed as schizophrenic . |
| 17 | Through the heavy fretwork of its top windows he could see the towering minarets of the Bab es Zuweyla , and from the box window of the storey below , where he was standing when Sesostris approached , he had a good view along the street in both directions . |
| 18 | This will be the reason for the oddity of ( 54 ) where one such basic property is related to its noun through assignment , by contrast with the normality of ( 55 ) where it is given as one of the initial identifying properties of the subject entity ( there is obviously no difference of truth-value between the two ) : ( 54 ) ? a ladle which was heavy came down on his skull ( 55 ) a heavy ladle came down on his skull Thus , other things being equal we expect properties of such basic sorts to be used predominantly for identification by ordinary qualification . |
| 19 | These groups represent a minority opinion , she suggests , and it is up to the NVALA and groups like it to defend and reassert ‘ traditional ’ values before humanism takes a grip of society generally , rather than just at the BBC where it is viewed as already having a stranglehold . |
| 20 | But it would be regarded as less serious than 20 to 30 years ago , and less so in the theatrical and film worlds where it 's regarded as almost normal . ’ |
| 21 | With that settled , they were back by the outbuildings near the house when she again remembered her car and thought she had better find out where it was garaged before she again forgot to bring it up . |
| 22 | Subjects with one or more positive replies on the questionnaire , or those who used H 2 antagonists or antacids , were invited to attend a dyspepsia clinic where it was decided whether endoscopy was appropriate and the procedure was explained . |
| 23 | The Serbian representative on the Collective State Presidency , Borisav Jovic , said that the army should pull back to those areas where it was acknowledged as " defending its own " . |
| 24 | where it was described as written by ‘ Mrs. Drake , probably a sister of Dr. James Drake , who attended to the publication of the pamphlet ’ . |
| 25 | And it was quite ni actually although I was hurrying because I thought of them sitting in the car erm it was very pleasant walking , very slippery though along by Walford cemetery and all down there . |
| 26 | The monitors alone are so loud that I am baffled as to how the crew operate without some type of semaphore system . |
| 27 | Not that I 'm complaining because I realized they had a job to do , but they were all firing their questions at once , and I do like to give a civil , considered reply . |
| 28 | And even when I learned you were a prying journalist — and when I 've always preferred my walks to be solitary — what do I find but that I 'm asking if you would like to walk with me ! ’ |
| 29 | Er , I can say for instance that I 'm changing because I 'm er getting older , I 'm getting tireder erm all sorts of things can be said about me . |
| 30 | but that comes after any moves that I 'm making because clearly , they need somebody that can be |