Example sentences of "be [adj] [pers pn] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But erm I felt as though , I felt exactly the same , I felt I 'd just been asleep I just had my eyes shut and I felt opening one eye to have a look out and see what people were doing . |
| 2 | " I am afraid she never liked me . " |
| 3 | then adopted you 're wrong they eloquently adopted them as my Lord , erm first of all article eighty five is direct my Lordship has heard all about that , to do that would be rendering excessively difficult the enforcement of the directly effective provision and your Lordship has no jurisdiction to do that |
| 4 | For although I am sure he never had the chance to encounter a tiger beneath the dining table , when I think over all that I know or have heard concerning him , I can think of at least several instances of his displaying in abundance that very quality he so admired in the butler of his story . |
| 5 | erm I saw in the newspaper , as I am sure you probably did , last week that the government has just devoted , I think , nine million pounds over the next few years to develop curricula and methods of training teachers in schools , and I think it 's tremendously important that that does n't become merely a bit more science of one form or another . |
| 6 | I 'm sorry I fucking came here worked out dearer this week than they normally do . |
| 7 | " I 'm sorry I ever got you involved . " |
| 8 | I can see now I was mistaken and I 'm sorry I ever thought it . ’ |
| 9 | When I get in there , they 'll be sorry they ever said that to you . ’ |
| 10 | I 'm afraid I just did n't realise the time . |
| 11 | I 'm afraid I simply put two and two together . ’ |
| 12 | I 'm afraid I only got the briefest details on you , " he said by way of explanation . |
| 13 | ‘ Jacqui , I 'm afraid I never got the photos to him . ’ |
| 14 | All this is said so nonchalantly , with so much gazing across the water and into the cloudy sky , that a spectator might be convinced we really did bump into each other in our lunch break . |
| 15 | I did that because I got an amazing about of money and to be honest I rather liked the idea of swanning around in a special effects car . |
| 16 | I have been in close contact with him in that apartment for three weeks and I 'm convinced he genuinely tried to secure that young man 's release safe and unharmed . ’ |
| 17 | Yes I 'm sure it probably did I just thought Paul , go to the corner of the front room Paul and take something for that . |
| 18 | Well I , I , I , I honestly thought the bar should have done , and I 'm sure it fucking did you know . |
| 19 | ‘ Although I 'm sure you never hesitated to badger her about it , ’ Sabine said evenly . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm sure I never saw a letter about it , ’ says Pamela defensively . |
| 21 | And I 'm sure I never gave her any reason to be so high-and-mighty ! ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm sure he never went near them . ’ |
| 23 | I 'm sure she never told you that . |
| 24 | I 'm amazed it ever happened . |
| 25 | I 'm certain she never loved me . |
| 26 | Glad to know you had a good visit to — but am amazed you only used ten units of electricity . |
| 27 | Of course being nervous he often drank a little too much , so that when he finally looked up at the end of the night it would be with something like desperation , a fear that no one was going to ask him to leave with them ; but the way he looked at you also meant that you knew he would never say no , if you did ask . |
| 28 | Building up relationships was very much like collecting little islands — you jumped from one to another to another to another — and if you were lucky you eventually had a network . |
| 29 | In all the years Francis and I were married I never asked him for a cent . |
| 30 | Even though they were poor they still had their pride . |