Example sentences of "[det] and [pers pn] be a " in BNC.
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| 1 | will er the the younger people will be encouraged to start to accept this and it is a change in our thinking , that it , I find it difficult as well . |
| 2 | Get more information first , so that you know all your facts and if you ask us we 'll send him a booklet without saying who er , who asked us to send it and then go in and see him and say , now the Osteoporosis Society have said this and it 's a very brave doctor who will then say absolutely no ! |
| 3 | Our modern parental investment individualistic view would n't allow you to make that error , instead you 'd say you know you 've got ta look at the costs and benefits of the mother too and perhaps there are benefits to mothers in actively testing as it were their offspring , erm rather than just passively er accepting that they 're gon na have to be mothers and gon na have to get on with it and again you see , er I would er and this may have been the big mistake I made last year , er but again I stand by my er view on this and it 's a perfectly defensible one , erm again I think those who say that abortion is unnatural and kind of erm offends against er you know nature , are wrong . |
| 4 | Because one of the worse things you can do in this and it 's a it 's a it 's something everybody does I think , I understand anyway , is to prejudge who will or who will not advertise in |
| 5 | Saloon like this and it 's a sixteen hundred and you said that 's the size you want |
| 6 | But while you 're here leave it covered like this and it 's a bit . |
| 7 | Look after her like this and she is a sweet tempered old soul . |
| 8 | Here is another and it is an interesting and rewarding exercise to translate this into language with plain meaning It comes from a Japanese journal , clearly influenced by trans-Pacific pomposity . |
| 9 | They started pecking one another and it was a job to get them stopped . |
| 10 | ‘ There are days like that and it is a matter of making sure you are in the right place at the right time . |
| 11 | It 's as stark as that and it 's a nonsense . |
| 12 | Well I would I , he would say you know you know you do n't croquet that and it 's a short bom bom and it 's |
| 13 | So then John , he tries all sorts of things out , you know doughnuts and things like that and it 's a thermostatically controlled |
| 14 | But there is a cost of that and it 's a cost that people will recognise . |
| 15 | And then sh like , you know how sometimes in the , an old dance routine they put a coat on the woman and everything , she 's dancing and they bring this coat towards her and she goes like that and it 's a straight jacket . |
| 16 | And erm and he did this sermon so the next bloke he came from Kent somewhere er he was a miner or a miner 's delegate and he could really speak you know , arms waving and all that and he was a real preacher . |
| 17 | If you live round the corner from Mary Whitehouse could you pop in and tell her that her phone is off the hook she has n't replaced the receiver and she she 's quite an elderly lady and I would would be terribly upset if if she had n't got her phone back cos she might need it for emergencies or something like that and I am a caring concerned person so could you could you pop round the corner to Mary 's house and tell her that she has n't put her phone on the hook off the hook properly could you do that ? |
| 18 | In fact most young bands are n't based in the capital at all and it is a long-standing complaint of artists with their souls in the provinces that the concentration of the national media in London obliges them to abandon their regional roots . |
| 19 | He had n't wanted to learn more about them , not really , ugly things after all and it was a long time ago . |
| 20 | Yeah , well Joan was , Joan was the same and she 's a different girl altogether , she 's , she 's absolutely great . |
| 21 | Everyone has their own and it 's a great shame if they never get a chance to ask them . ’ |