Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] be [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The very ecosystem I inhabited was also to be one of products , striving against built-in obsolescence to individuate themselves , using whatever human means were at their disposal to advance their branded species . |
| 2 | I hate being here with on my own on a Saturday . |
| 3 | No , we had no accidents , the only one I had was er when I 'd been right to the top , with the other crane an and it was a long shop , and everyone had done with me during the morning , so I hoisted the crane up , pulled it in towards me and set myself going down the shop , put it in full speed . |
| 4 | I 'd been right about the biological cleaners . |
| 5 | I 'd been right about Lloyd 's two-tone shoes though I had expected him to put socks on , and I was wrong about the hat — it was a white Panama . |
| 6 | I 'd been right in thinking that he was n't seriously hurt , and they soon had him well again . |
| 7 | I 'd been away for the weekend to a little shack a hundred miles away . |
| 8 | I done it to I done it to Russell one night messing around and he told the girls in work I 'd been away for the weekend and he 'd had somebody else there honest to God he did ! |
| 9 | Within an hour of sitting down at my old desk , reading through my old files and shouting at my not so old secretary I felt as if I 'd been away from work for maybe just a week 's holiday . |
| 10 | But when we moved in here , because I 'd been away from him for five months and I 'd learned to cope for myself , I started standing up for myself and he did n't like it . |
| 11 | I 'd been away after that before I came to the electricity works here . |
| 12 | The nationality rule was a beautiful get-out for them , but I only had a few months to go before I 'd been here for ten years and would have been entitled to fight for the title . |
| 13 | I 'd been there for Harry and the arrow had by-passed my heart . |
| 14 | And I 'd been there from six in the morning till quarter to nine . |
| 15 | ‘ But I 'd been home for two hours when Silvia got back . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd been everywhere in books : I read a lot about exotic places . |
| 17 | Er some of you I suspect are already into things like bucketshop flights . |
| 18 | He said , yeah , I like being home with the family . |
| 19 | By the end of the decade , power will have shifted to central and north-east Europe from its present location , which I suppose is somewhere between London , France and Rome . |
| 20 | The chapter on Annapurna contains several images which I felt were well below the overall standard . |
| 21 | I was n't going for his agreement or anyone else 's agreement — I was going for what I felt was right at the time , and as he 'd set me up as this person in his life , I advised him not to do it . |
| 22 | I reached for The Mayor of Casterbridge which I knew was somewhere in the bed . |
| 23 | Er can I er I I started to comment on about the er er bank accounts and which are y you know er my the reaction that I saw was all round the table er I think we would go further but er any company handling pension funds should carry pensions somewhere in their names on all on all their paperwork etcetera so that everybody 's totally clear that they are dealing with pension funds and er er to agree with a comment that you made in one of your earlier reports that er designation of bonus of shares of pension funds should be clearly er marked on those shares er that also would have a at least alerted these financial institutions as once again that they were handling stocks belonging to pension funds and they still ignored it in that that w case that they did , but er they would have not had the excuse that er apparently some of them have made that er they were not aware that these were pension fund assets . |
| 24 | Er can I I started to comment on about the er , er bank accounts which are you know er my the reaction that I saw was all round the table and I think we would go further that er any company handling pension funds should carry pensions somewhere in their names and all on all their paperwork etcetera so that everybody 's totally clear that they are dealing with pension funds and er to agree with a comment that you made in one of your earlier reports that er designation of ownership of shares of pension funds should be clearly er marked on those shares er that also would of er at least alerted these financial institutions , as once again that they were handling stocks belonging to pension fund and they still have ignored it in the case that er they did , but er er they would ha not had the excuse that er apparently some of them have made that er they were not aware that these were pension funds assets . |
| 25 | Well I saw a sending off yesterday on television that er I thought was nowhere near as severe as that and I must say that he 's a very luck man Stan . |
| 26 | On the other hand , most of the political and commercial conferences that I do are either for presentation on television of important policies or for discussion and debate on serious issues . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's easy work , ’ she confided in Rosie , ‘ because really I love being here on the complex . |
| 28 | The problems with these I think are principally of two kinds . |
| 29 | This I think is greatly to the credit of ICM , provided , as you say , that we can retain the appropriate balance . |
| 30 | Well I think being outside in the garden and cleaning |