Example sentences of "[noun sg] be and i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My Lords , I , I do realise and I have to be satisfied with that erm and I shall do my best , but if I could just make my absolutely clear , simple proposition that I was seeking to perform is that if you are seeking to amend the law i i it ought to be possible for those who are seeking to understand the Government 's intentions to find out relatively easily what the law is and I suggest it 's very far from easy and even if you get to it , it 's not at all easy to understand . |
| 2 | The only difference is and I hope you 're not colour blind |
| 3 | I was just having a word with one of your colleagues here trying to take up what Mr 's point was and I think we 've come up maybe with a compromise , is that we call him the County Public Protection Officer . |
| 4 | erm my name is and I work for my objective of this really is to reappraise my presentation skills . |
| 5 | I think that er that is a question better directed towards the French , possibly my colleagues in the foreign office but my understanding is that the French assembly have indeed er approved ratification er but the French government i is declining er to append the appropriate signatures to it er er until agreement over the erm the parliament building at at Strasbourg is completed erm but my honourable friend I think in true parliamentary form , asks questions to which he already feels he knows pretty well what the answer is and I suspect that my answer squares with what he knows already . |
| 6 | Er I think the American version is and I think that 's the English version and that 's right . |
| 7 | Well that was another thing , one of the new first-aiders we 've got , erm did n't know where the accident book was and I thought was quite an important thing that would probably have been brought up |
| 8 | And it swallowed up my four whole units , because I even got to say what the answer was and I thought that was forty P , and I thought , I 'm never ever going to phone into one of those things again . |
| 9 | Nobody must have been his bombardier , mine was and my navigator was and I see his would have been . |
| 10 | And indeed er the Association of er Chartered er er the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants wrote to me recently er asking exactly what the position is and I quote from the letter , they say firms of accountants are quite likely to be engaged by the same client to perform services other than a statutory audit and then they go on to list financial planning and so on . |
| 11 | I 'll tell you what my present was and I think you 'll understand . |