Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] be [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm a policy statement like roads to the future which is what reminded me of it . |
| 2 | He bent down to pick up the photograph which was what had fallen . |
| 3 | Well we were taken up to the standby boat which is I mean every vessel in the North Sea , every rig and installation has a boat that circles it , non stop , twenty four hours a day and I mean that The standby boat on Piper I mean it was the the two inflatable boats off it that picked everybody up , and most folk up , and one of them was lost , they lost two of the crew off that . |
| 4 | An Army officer was shot dead on Aug. 20 at Tobalaba military airport , west of Santiago , by an assailant who was himself shot dead . |
| 5 | And at that briefing who were you given to understand in the flat ? |
| 6 | A soldier there was who said |
| 7 | ‘ If you have commitment and talent there 's nothing to stop you pursuing a career in cricket . ’ |
| 8 | By nightfall there was nothing to report , as the beacons were lit . |
| 9 | Yes , and the second time that happened it swept across the standing walls there , and in the near end of the caldarium there was somebody standing by the wall . |
| 10 | As soon as it 's strikes your , the bottom of your car it 's it begins to rust . |
| 11 | And so he 'd left London , to come here , hoping to lick the closing wise wound of whatever talent it was he had . |
| 12 | However , in practice this was only achieved as a result of the very public support of Kibaki and of Charles Njonjo the influential Attorney General ( working against the interests of the founders of GEMA ) , a triumvirate which was itself to break apart with the public humiliation of Njonjo at judicial hearings in 1984 . |
| 13 | It lights up but it erm you turn to the regulo love and it still stays the same level which is you know , sort of you know , little . |
| 14 | It would seem that erm i it was n't in the interests of one 's ultimate reproductive success to be too easily satisfied too much of the time because remember , it 's a question of relative reproductive success an and the individual that gets that little extra is is effectively gon na be , gon na be the one selected , so yes I would think that erm it 's probably naive to think that natural selection would , would make you feel er satisfied and content all the time it would probably induce erm a state of mild chronic discontent which is I think what most people actually experience in life |
| 15 | Not all of them provide that ‘ sure touch ’ — that firm but gentle control of the rudder which is what gives the child his or her sense of direction . |
| 16 | Men and women may or may not be moral in practice in 1700 , but there is no doubt that they have a common sense of morality which is itself bound up with a religious world-view . |
| 17 | Ooh , do you know what Jan in work she 's she had a phone call she goes oh right yeah , yeah ! |
| 18 | er if you 're out of work you 're it takes small businesses of . |
| 19 | I mean , alright the heating did n't go wrong but it was n't that , the coach itself was you know , really rattled ! |
| 20 | But it begs the question who are they doing it with , if the female averages are really so much lower than the male ? |
| 21 | Where do you look for a girl who 's nothing to do but drift about for the daylight hours ? |
| 22 | Pappy and a dark little girl who was herself leaning against a lifeboat . |
| 23 | We 've had a few scares from the lasers so far , but when we get on the scene there 's nothing to see . ’ |
| 24 | Taff exclaimed , ‘ It 's a wonder there 's anyone left out there ! ’ |
| 25 | Brian Hanson , legal adviser to the Church of England 's General Synod , said : ‘ There is nothing in law that talks about divorce of the sovereign and , therefore , in law there is nothing to prevent a divorcee becoming king . ’ |
| 26 | They ended with lines which leave the reader in no doubt as to her view of the condition : That wretch , if such a wretch there be Who hopes for happiness from thee , May search successfully as well For truth in whores and ease in hell . |
| 27 | He had gathered her closer in his arms , he was holding her so tightly that she could n't tell whose heartbeat it was she felt throbbing within her bones , his or hers . |
| 28 | Er and in the South Midlands ' section , I think it is erm towards Coventry and Nuneaton , we have got erm I can even remember the name of the Guild it 's we 've got a lot of younger women in there and these are younger women that , it 's very , I 'm very pleased to see them and when you see them go to the rostrum you can , you know they really are , they seem as if they 're a revival of the old camp because we , we 've got to campaign you see and but you , you try , I mean I 'm getting beyond it really myself and yet you see , you try and whip up erm an aging movement it you , you want younger women you see . |
| 29 | Well there 's a cat , I do n't know who 's black and white cat it is it comes from the council houses and that stands in the middle of the road ! |
| 30 | You can go to work when the tape stops Well he 's not going to watch you sticking all those on at work what 's he gon na be doing . |