Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [be] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I I du n no I I I ca n't work out cos all of Dan 's girlfriends yeah Amber , Sonia and Honey most people have all said I do n't think she 's right for Dan and you know I ca n't I ca n't work out whether they actually think that or they 're just sort of saying that because he does n't talk to them as much or something , I do n't know . |
| 2 | Or it 's only class four occupation that ca n't have a four week |
| 3 | Or he was only knee high to a duck . |
| 4 | This faith could be said to rely , at least to some extent , on that part of the teachings of the Old Testament which claims that a ‘ god ’ had promised sovereignty over the Promised Land , or what is now Palestine , to the descendants of Abraham . |
| 5 | By my husband 's will , and the custom of his house , all his manor and lands go to his nephew and heir , and I am without purpose in the household longer . |
| 6 | I 'll tell you , Crilly , about my first trip to Scotland and the men in chip shops who call you ‘ Hen ’ and the lads wearing green Celtic scarves at lunchtime and broad pointy-horned cattle and graveyards macabre with the tilting of tombstones caked with moss and weeds , sheep grazing and weaving amongst them , and a coastal fishing town in Harris where a night sky shimmers only to itself and I am without friends from , the real world and I listen only for the sound of the tin whistle while the boats rock gently in the jetty and the sky rages from beige to black and craggy mountains dart until forever and a fisherman stands , stunning and alone , strong and unnamed , and leads me slowly into that everchanging sea . |
| 7 | ‘ You mean you and I are only friends ? |
| 8 | Now , both my son and I are currently non-musicians who are keen to learn , but we do n't know what effect the three knobs and the sliding lever have on the front of the instrument . |
| 9 | She said : Thérèse has found out that she and I are really sisters , not cousins . |
| 10 | Mr Roirbak wo n't like it , and I 'm only resident at his pleasure , you understand . ’ |
| 11 | She 's give us twenty tapes and I 'm only tape five and she 's coming for 'em tomorrow . |
| 12 | Sorry talking to me and I 'm totally Dennis McCarthy . |
| 13 | My girl-friend and I were just making-up after a quarrel . |
| 14 | She and I were always friends , and David and I remain friends . |
| 15 | And I was just squeezin maself into a five and a half when Moira McVitie round the crescent in the cul de sac comes by and shouts out ‘ Hiya there Verena is that you trying on some fuck-me shoes for yer man gettin back . ’ |
| 16 | Well the grey come through and I was just sort of I thought I ca n't wait all those years with dark hair . |
| 17 | and you , , I used to eat so slow they 'd all all sort of finish and I was still sort of tuck |
| 18 | and I was there Jemima was there I was there , and Jemima there |
| 19 | It was funny cos I could hear them talking and I was really sort of like |
| 20 | ‘ Non-net ’ books , on which the publisher deliberately refrains from imposing a ‘ net ’ price , and which are usually school and other textbooks sold in multiple copies for classroom use , provide another exceptional category . |
| 21 | This new building is the detached cottage used by the Ladies since the 1950 's and which was previously Mr. and Mrs. Pedler 's home . |
| 22 | Yep , yep erm these officers are all trained in , in fire prevention work erm at the Fire Service 's technical college at Morton Marsh , and er they practise those skills they learn there over many years erm I 'm looking back , I mean the time that I spent in training schools and er and in , in the job er I suppose when you total it all up it must be two or three years away from home really , er in courses you know , in my day we went away on fire prevention training classes six months , six months ' course was the , so you went away to the Fire Service college which in those days was at Dorking , a lovely place in Dorking , and you did six months there solid , and then nowadays about thirteen weeks , the courses run about thirteen weeks , and you are constantly fire , fire officers from the ranks of erm probably a Sub Officer , leading fireman in some places , but Sub Officer onwards and particularly Station Officer up to the more senior ranks are away on courses regularly for , it 's really updating people erm new legislation coming in , new techniques coming in , erm which have to be these people have to be updated so they are very well trained , erm more so than most local authority people I would think , fire , fire officers are , erm purely because the job is such a wide range of , of things to deal with . |
| 23 | Doctors , G Ps , nurses , pharmacists , dentists , they 're all under attack and you 're just part of the effort to try and repel that attack , all the way round . |
| 24 | And you 're well past eighteen too , Douglas . |
| 25 | Walking means exercise , walking means effort , you and I have to do something to keep ourselves spiritually awake , going back to our illustration again about the car driver on the motorway , you find yourself after so many miles just dozing off because the road is so straight , not much traffic around , not much to think about apart from the countryside that goes by and you 're there foot on the accelerator , no braking , no gear changing , nothing at all and you get to the point where you 're driving one-handed by the thing , that 's the time when you get so relaxed is n't it ? |
| 26 | And you 're now Director of South East Arts , having left the Arts Council . |
| 27 | And you 're actually godmother to the child . |
| 28 | ‘ When you see people weeping as they sing the swelling choruses of Jerusalem , ’ says Peter Morgan , director-general of the Institute of Directors , ‘ you 're listening to people who hate everything about industry and have a bucolic dream — and who are also Fabians , and see business leaders as slave-drivers . ’ |
| 29 | And now the man who yearned with all his heart for all his life to be a woman and who is just months away from radical surgery wants to remain a man . |
| 30 | Patrice Haguellar , who used to coach Noah and Leconte in a private capacity , and who is now France 's National Coach , is a realist who looks upon the 1992 campaign as ‘ … a new challenge ’ |