Example sentences of "and [pers pn] be [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know like I say there is quite a lot of trust and erm I think Yona and me are sort of aware er we 're very much united in the feeling that we do n't we do n't want things to erm you know we want everybody to be involved and obviously different people have different things to offer . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , Sergei and I are kind of symbols . ’ |
| 3 | And anyway , he and I are sort of mates . |
| 4 | My na mes Tom and I 'm chairman of the trust , have Roy who is chairman of the management committee , Ron is vice who who who 's vice chair of the board , Gordon I 'm sure everyone knows is the general manager and John who is the company 's secretary . |
| 5 | Sometimes I 'm working away up here in my studio — the name 's a bit too grand for the room , which is only 12 by 12 , but even so — and there 's music on the radio and I 'm sort of on automatic pilot . |
| 6 | Yeah the clock , the clock 's there I always get groups that say where 's the clock cos they ca n't sort of see where it is and I 'm sort of saying it 's the angle tell the time . |
| 7 | erm right I 'm new to the area and I 'm sort of wanting to move into the Garden City |
| 8 | And I 'm sort of thinking , oh my God , modern woman ! |
| 9 | and I 'm sort of thinking , why Thursday ? |
| 10 | and they 're going in my neck but I do n't wan na turn over cos she 'll fall off the bed and I 'm sort of going just on me and she 's really funny . |
| 11 | Or if my mother comes up , and I 'm sort of just getting up , she says , oh do you want me to bring stuff up , or ideally , I usually say or I 'll come downstairs and get breakfast . |
| 12 | Half my year 's gon na be gone , and I 'm sort of , going for the third year , and it 's really heavy . |
| 13 | So , ‘ What would my priorities be if the bad dream came true , and I were Minister of Health now ? ’ |
| 14 | Angela and I was head of the International Department from nineteen forty-eight to nineteen seventy-two . |
| 15 | Er as regards to the team that was gon na come down from London and I was Secretary of the Football Club at that time . |
| 16 | And I was chairman of it for about six years or so before the council broke up . |
| 17 | Music was a sideline and I was sort of the loner of the family , sitting for hours in my brother 's room listening to records . |
| 18 | ‘ He said something that made the implication that I 'd copied and I was sort of so choked I did n't answer . |
| 19 | And I was sort of juggling , I did n't realize how much I was doing until one day shortly after mother 's death , a lady stopped me and she said has something happened to your mother ? |
| 20 | and I was sort of concentrating so I just |
| 21 | Jackie phoned me up to say , she phoned me up today for a chat , we were chatting away and she said erm , I heard Brenda , Brenda , so I knew it was girl , and er , I was saying she walked straight into the kitchen and I was sort of still on the phone , I was saying yeah , yeah , ok and erm , I said I 'm going out shopping and I 'm taking the dog with me , I said ok fair enough , she said well you 'll probably be gone when I get back , I said oh might be but she said but I do n't know and erm you know and I just put the phone down cos she wanted to see the pictures , my little girl asked put all the pictures up for him and er were looking at all the pictures and I 'd forgotten about Jack on the phone you know , so she s all of a sudden I got back she said oh your phone call she said who you talking too ? |
| 22 | He had a cigarette in his hand and flicking ash up the carpet and I was looking at him , you know , and I was sort of going , and Jane was sat in here and she said , put that cigarette out ! |
| 23 | so I left it and I was sort of like , falling asleep so I thought oh right , and so I turned off my music , went to sleep , then woke up again and |
| 24 | Right , so me and Jim had a chat the other day just looking at the the roadside entries and the counts and I was sort of saying if we work on the basis that we want between ten and twelve people , twelve people maximum |
| 25 | Well , he was in this pen and I was sort of behind him |
| 26 | It 's great to start the New Year with lots of excitement in the air and that 's certainly the feeling at GH : so much to celebrate , so much to share , so much happening and you 're part of all of it . |
| 27 | Now it did n't mean that you build his war machine , but the Kuwaiti people being so close , or actually bordering , we helped the economy of Baghdad , we helped the economy of the Iraq , and we contributed thirteen billion dollars , just the government alone , to their economy and the people of Kuwait also helped with their own private donation to help the schools , the hospitals , the food , whatever they needed , and the country of Kuwait was erm trying to be , as my friend said , as neutral as possible because there is Irani interest in Kuwait , very great through trade , through Iranis who work in Kuwait , so we had a very difficult position with respect to keeping both parties erm sort of in sight , not lose sight of them from our humanistic point of view , but it was erm difficult to avoid being on the side of the Iraqui , mainly because they 're neighbours and they 're Arabs , and you 're part of the league of Arab states , so you ca n't draw the line and say the government was pro or against , but that was the atmosphere which we were leaving . |
| 28 | And me granny to help me and he was the land nobody could really find that if you came across it one nasty day well you 're there and you 're kind of stop there if the went away . |
| 29 | I know , I know , I know , and you go , and you 're , and you 're kind of up , up |
| 30 | hang on hang on now if you 're talking to a mathematician and you 're sort of saying cos squared is well erm you know if I integrate that ah I 'm going to get cos so if erm well I 'll just change that there and I 'll fiddle |