Example sentences of "[indef pn] and [pron] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was going with someone and he was going with someone so we never made it , ’ said Karen . |
| 2 | Aye , she were washing them or summat and he were annoying her so she threw them all . |
| 3 | I left when there was a time of barrenness and I went into another country and now there 's a time of plenty and I 'm going back home what are they going to say to me ? |
| 4 | Nothing and nobody was going to make her slave for Carty Jenks , not even Samson . |
| 5 | She smiled grimly : nothing and nobody was going to stop her finding and fixing the Spinward bosses in the Arcadia system . |
| 6 | Whatever it took , and however long , nothing and nobody was going to stop them making Crystal Springs Hotel a reality . |
| 7 | God , if this is all for nothing and we 're going to die anyway ! |
| 8 | And they never won nothing and they were made redundant last week and one of the chaps he did it on his own this week and won three hundred thousand . |
| 9 | ‘ She hates the fact that I 've lost nothing and she 's lost everything . ’ |
| 10 | One of the factors is that it is a simple format , involving everyone and it is done with gusto and enthusiasm . |
| 11 | It 's organisers say it 's for everyone and it 's receiving public funding . |
| 12 | On that day , everyone and anyone is invited to visit the campus to see what we do here . |
| 13 | Everything and everyone is drained of value except as means to my own dwindling and at last exclusively pre-human ends , and I myself am equally a means in the eyes of everyone else , as I am forced to recognize whenever an automaton interacting with me reaches for its own pocket computer . |
| 14 | The plot of ‘ Great Expectations ’ is a very concentrated one , where everything and everyone are linked in the same plot . |
| 15 | You 're trying to be everything and they 're pushing it away cos it 's not what they really want and they , I mean , all , all you can get from him is how marvellous , you 're right , how marvellous his brothers are and yet , what I 've heard of the brothers they 're not |
| 16 | ‘ We talked about anything and everything and we were joking with the men working to rescue us , ’ Mr Friend said . |
| 17 | It is interesting to make the obvious observation that , while the first and last named are fanatical behaviourists , believing that everything is subject to unlimited moulding and rearrangement through a process of reward and punishment , the three in the middle are fanatical instinctivists , insisting that virtually everything and anything is inherited , a gift ( or a grief ) of the genes and not subject to the environment . |
| 18 | when she , this man was n't very well on , she saw him up at her window and she saw he was n't very well on the other side of the road and she sent down to ask him to come in and she gave him a cup of tea and everything and she was talking |
| 19 | I remember I had to do one once , ear , nose and throat and everything and you 're explaining to them where the the erm adenoid and tonsil and tissue was and oh my god talk about |
| 20 | But then he kept going on about how brilliant your party was gon na be and everything and I 'm sat there thinking let's face it , if I come on between you know , because like , it would have been alright cos I 'd be finished like , today or tomorrow and then it would have been like nice and ready for the party ! |
| 21 | But do n't forget this this is a very important time with the all the increase coming in they 've got a helluva lot to take on , not just learning the company but they got the new routes and everything and it 's going to leave I would 've thought very short in an exceptionally busy period |
| 22 | He either kicked me under the table or something and we were sitting across from each other … just a foot or two , and he passed it over , directed me to the top paragraph and had an expression of this was a surprising entry . |
| 23 | Yeah , I mean now plays of Shakespeare and they 're wearing modern dress like those worn at Richard the Third or something and they 're wearing well either First or Second World War uniforms . |
| 24 | Yeah , I mean now plays of Shakespeare and they 're wearing modern dress like those worn at Richard the Third or something and they 're wearing well either First or Second World War uniforms . |
| 25 | Well we 've some of them queuing outside and they 're all they 're all queuing up for something and they 're going to get nothing each . |
| 26 | I mean , my mate , he went to hospital cos they said he was allergic to something and they was putting him in a thing that only |
| 27 | You just take one , I just my pal had a bad or something and she was prescribed er a se , a certain kind of sleeping tablet , Tamazapam and just I started in to say amounts up to twenty five at the end of the , do you know what I mean ? |
| 28 | He 's always doing that , he 's reading or drawing or something and he 's laughing to himself . |
| 29 | This was where Jesus was going , because he knew that to take to take something over and let's face it Jesus was looking to take over take something over to fulfil something and he was hoping to fulfil Judaism to take it over , to fulfil it , he had to go to where it mattered . |
| 30 | Jackie he was he was looking he was for something and he was looking for something in a hurry and I could n't find out I like T-shirts in one pile sweat shirts in another pullovers in another jeans in another but they were all sort of |