Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] be [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 Perhaps I 'm kind of emotionally retarded … but basically I 've just written about things how I 've felt about them , myself , emotionally .
2 They are but I 'm just I mean y'know it 's cos it 's not really correlation yet so I 'm sort of u that 's why I 've put quotes round association .
3 for dinner and dinner parties so I 'm sort of frantically trying to cut down , and then , you know , one dinner party and then I put it
4 So you 're sort of thinking at different levels .
5 So you 're sort of right in a way that it 's two sine squared X but this wrong .
6 So you were sort of head to tail ?
7 So we 're sort of both playing two sides against the middle .
8 So we were sort of wondering , you know , where
9 exam erm exam was double marked with , the question arose as to whether the essay should be double marked , because obviously they are part of the assessment .
10 We must return to the world , I fear , but first — ’ And he kissed her cheek , so gently that her tears flowed again , only they were tears of joy , not pain .
11 So they are victims of pressures about looks , too , but in a different way .
12 In doing so they were part of their time .
13 You half expect their quiet moments to be a mere ‘ quiet before the storm ’ intro to some Metallica prog-thrash epic about hellspawn putrefaction , but then they meander into Sonic Youth discordant territory , then suddenly it 's walls of sonic bliss , then it 's off into a sample-aided , arse-quaking , ‘ Die asshole muthaf—er ’ industrial rant , then some tedious feedback wanking then … erm , that 's it .
14 Suddenly he was ruler of all the Frankish realms .
15 Perhaps it 's part of the drink/driving campaign reaching people who ride the sky in a sleigh drawn by reindeer .
16 Perhaps it 's sort of on there yeah .
17 Or perhaps it 's sort of some dressed up character .
18 Or perhaps it was kind of Alan .
19 Perhaps it was part of a plan to hurt her , to punish her , for her unhappy suspicions about him .
20 Perhaps it was love of Araminta or perhaps , glancing at Alfred , it was pique that his lordship had reverted to Alice .
21 I 've I , when I heard you saying you recognized his voice I thought to myself well perhaps he 's sort of inviting you to er , whatever !
22 So he 's kind of making a joke about it but there is a serious point there as well .
23 So he 's Secretary of State .
24 Erm , think erm so he 's sort of bluffing , okay ?
25 We are unable to get addresses of our so it 's word of mouth how we , how we er include , but why should not the employer send to all pensioners and deferred pensioners notices about the associations .
26 So it 's part of you know , part of the the penalty if you like , of living in the flats .
27 So it 's part of this larger view of psychoanalysis that was emerging in the thirties .
28 It 's no good doing the most lovely building right down a drive where no-one can see it , so it 's part of the environment for all of us .
29 So it 's line of symmetry there and that is n't a line of symmetry .
30 And also I think , which is very strong and I think it does come out in , in the Chinese Communist Party , is the lust of power which can be even more dangerous when you convince yourself I 'll do all you lot good but I can make you all members of the Communist Party , whether you want to be or not does n't really matter , you know , it 's gon na be for the good of the country so you fall in with this trap of assuming that you want is for their good so it 's sort of a , a dangerous thing .
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