Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] be [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His single-minded pursuit of his objectives — which had originally led him to sweep her off her feet in such a masterly fashion — and his instinctive opposition to the challenge before him now were qualities which Laura found truly admirable . |
| 2 | Most of those ones you can audit , they really are procedures we 've had in place for a year but have been audited before and have had minor changes to erm , the wording . |
| 3 | ‘ Maybe it really is time I settled down , ’ he said , holding her at arm 's length and smudging her tears away with his thumb . |
| 4 | ‘ It really is time he got on with running his own business and let us run ours . |
| 5 | Looking out over the silvery water , she wondered whether it really was Robert who had been a spectator of what was apparently a passionate embrace . |