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

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1 Or perhaps it was his imagination .
2 Or perhaps it was his fingers that were having that effect .
3 Bob is a lecturer at a local college , and so it is his wife Beryl who runs the hotel .
4 And so it is my conclusion that you are at present a man without funds , clearly ignorant of the axiom that ‘ there is no such thing as a free lunch ’ . ’
5 And so it was our prisoner .
6 And so it was my experience not to become closer to him in our isolation but to approach myself more closely .
7 I know it was a learner like and obviously it was her first time out .
8 And anyway it 's our money , ’ he said .
9 There was nothing wrong with the jumper and legally it is her fault for not checking the size .
10 Okay now erm , there 's a slight change of plan because er following one or two of the classes last week I realized that erm I had n't made myself very well understood last week and er what came back from one or two people was rather garbled , and really it 's my own fault because I probably tried to do too much too quickly and as a result perhaps er did n't make myself clear .
11 They were beautiful combs , expensive combs , and now they were her combs .
12 This was the first chance she 'd had to wear them ; last night things had been too fraught to think of dressing up , and now they were her only adornment .
13 ‘ My children are all grown up and now it 's my turn , ’ she says .
14 And now it 's my turn .
15 As I said , everyone has to go there and a list of Swifts as long as my arm have been to it and now it 's your turn . ’
16 And now it is Thy will that I leave this festival ; I go .
17 He smiled his rather pale , somewhat wintry smile and said ‘ Thank you gentlemen , and now it is my painful duty to set you your homework ’ .
18 I have been dishing it out for a number of years , and now it is my turn to take it .
19 And now it is my duty to introduce Doctor and erm I think you said you were talking to us about yourself and erm also a little bit about your holidays ?
20 And now it was her turn .
21 By the time he reached the gallery his mother was at the far end of the broad corridor , but she was n't going into her room or into his room , she was making for the attic stairs , and now it was his turn to raise his eyebrows .
22 She had said it all and now it was his turn to speak .
23 ‘ I knew as soon as I saw Damian that he was the son I 'd never had , and now he is my son , in a way , is n't he ? ’
24 He had desired her once , and now she was his wife .
25 The survival of ancient sites depended on the whim of their owners , and often it was their own ‘ weight and worthlessness ’ that was their best protection .
26 This he usually did , and often it was his eldest son .
27 Jesus had had many interviews with people , we 've looked at some of them over these past few weeks , the time when he met with Nicademus , the religious leader , the time he went out of his way to meet with a woman of Semaria in her dyer need , the other occasion that we looked at er a week or so back when he called Anzakias from that tree of which he was hiding , last week his judge , pilot , but of all those interviews and as many others that we have n't looked at this surely must be one of the strangest as Jesus himself is in the process of dying and as he is dying he is confronted with another person who has a need , but Jesus your need is as greatest as any body elses , your pain , your suffering , your physical suffering was every bit of great as those around you , why be bothered with others is n't that so often our story , when we are in need we can forget all about other people , it does n't matter there need , its poor me , what about me , what about my need , what about my requirements , what about my suffering , but we see here how Jesus apart from any thing else deals with his own suffering , he deals with it by ministering to the needs of other people , and this surely then must be one of the most strange and one of the most interviews that our lord ever had when he was here on earth , with this dying thief , but he was more than a thief he was a er , he was a re a rebel , he was a terrorist or a freedom fighter depending on which way you wanted to look at it and he was dying for his crimes and he was n't alone because there there was this man we 've been talking about , there was Jesus and there was another one , another criminal on the other side and we find that this is all in keeping with what god had promised , all there in , in line with his prophecy way back in Iziah chapter fifty three , it tells us that he was numbered with the transgressors , that he died with sinful men with , with law breakers and here it is its happening right in front of the , the very eyes of the Jewish leaders and the jewish authorities our lords intention in coming into the world was to save men and women , to seek out and to save sinners , remember thirty odd years previous to this event the word had come , for Mary his mother , to Joseph , we will call his name Jesus because he will save his people from their sins and later on writing to Timothy the apostle Paul in the first chapter of the first book in verse fifteen he says it is a trust worthy statement deserving full acceptance that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners , this was his purpose , this was his reason for coming into the world , not to be a good man , not to be a , a great leader , not to give us some model that we can , you know , that we can plan our life out and try and live up to his standards , he says I 've come to give my life as a ransom , I have come to save and to seek that which was lost and here in this incident as he himself is dying and is in physical pain and torment he is carrying out this very work , of seeking out and saving of those who will turn to him , those who will put their trust in him , he is saving the lost , and we see in a wonderful how great the compassion of Jesus was and is , in reaching out and rescuing those who are lost , here we see our lord suffering the most terrible agony and yet in the midst of his own sorrow and pain and , and torment he thinks of this dying thief and extends his grace and mercy to him .
28 And maybe it 's your imagination , but there also seems to be a hint of laughter on the wind …
29 Yeah , exactly and then it 's their their
30 And then it 's your time to do it , that 's all .
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