Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] be [adv] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Browning out of the kindness of his heart and because Mr Landor I believe was once his champion when no one thought anything of him brought the old gentleman to Siena and prevailed upon Mr Story his friend to take him in . |
| 2 | It may be easier to be fearful of all sorts of things than to be honest and say to yourself : ‘ The way I feel is entirely my own problem . |
| 3 | Conserving what little money I had was therefore my number-one priority . |
| 4 | ‘ When I 've been away my wife has posted it to me . |
| 5 | He was a very nice young man and did bear some small resemblance to me which I supposed was why his mother , perhaps not knowing who his father was , or knowing but having been abandoned by him , had woven this fantasy about a familiar figure from the television screen . |
| 6 | I think it was copied from Victoria , Victoria had a lot of influence upon women obviously , she had a lot of children ; women too , women , apart from the fact there was no effective contraception , it was the duty of woman to bear a lot of children so that they could carry on the line , which was also why woman had to be very chaste and pure so that man could be sure that the son that she produced was actually his legitimate heir . |
| 7 | but , then the next morning of course when Wendy got home she 'd been down my nephew 's looking after the kids for them and erm , and said we 've come to arrest you , and no , oh Rachael said oh mum there 's a police car pulled up outside , so she said , oh my god do n't tell me they 're wrong and it is Tracey , cos Tracey 's left home , she 's gone to live with her friend and erm , anyway , when Wendy got to the stairs she could n't go in , she could n't go any further and she said erm , when , when the policeman said Mrs I 've come to arrest you , she just about said Christ she said what have I done ? |
| 8 | ‘ The first people you suspect are always your friends . |
| 9 | we knew was n't my granddad cos my granddad was knee high to a grasshopper , erm straight as a dye in character and physical appearance , er like he had a rod up his back which was one of these expressions , |
| 10 | Well , the TV we had was n't our own . |
| 11 | That is how it has been in the past , we have never been friends , and perhaps it has been altogether my fault . |
| 12 | ‘ But Josey , what he wants is not my type of thing ! |
| 13 | The religion which he espoused was singularly his own , and when in February 1937 he gave a radio talk on " The Church 's Message to the World " he returned to a subject which was close to the centre of his concerns : the failure of Western civilization , and in particular the signal inability of liberal democracy to sustain moral or intellectual values which might effectively confront the ideologies of fascism or communism . |
| 14 | You go on a management scheme , it cut 's back your headcount even more , you know . |
| 15 | Intellectually he had accepted that the marriage had been a mistake , that it had been largely his mistake . |
| 16 | This he believes is where his future lies in Europe . |