Example sentences of "be [adv] [adv] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I think he 's been on before and he 's quite a decent chap , I think . |
| 2 | My sister , who has always been better off than us , has suggested that I should go abroad with her this year , and says I have no excuse because I have the money and that is what our mother would have wanted me to do with it . |
| 3 | Another , after describing her loveless relationship with an unsatisfactory husband , is amazed at Jim Dixon 's remark that she would have been better off if she had n't married . |
| 4 | Do n't worry about the swimming cos we 've been down there and she said yeah , I ca n't stir myself . |
| 5 | This morning they 're different again down there cos I 've been down there and I 've looked at the situation erm and I 've had a word with the lads there and I will try and alter it a little bit more . |
| 6 | Oh no I mean we 've been down there when you put dash like , when you have to wire , er a bolt goes on the dashboard and everything , well Christ I 've been round , we went round er Sunderland works , Nissan , at Sunderland , and we 've been round Rover works |
| 7 | It 's been all right since they 've lived here because so few people come . |
| 8 | ‘ They 'd have been all right if they 'd been firewomen — she loves women , ’ he said . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd have been all right if I 'd made it to the main road . ’ |
| 10 | It 's been all downhill since he was wrenched from the helm of Private Eye by his homuncular protégé Ian Hislop . |
| 11 | In terms of space , sunlight and unpolluted air , the squatters are better off than they were in the crowded , unventilated and noisy slum courts . |
| 12 | Yet one only needs to travel in the town on Saturdays to see well clothed and healthy children and upstanding young men and women , to realise that the people of this country are better off than they have ever been . |
| 13 | Yet one only needs to travel in the town on Saturdays to see well clothed and healthy children and upstanding young men and women , to realise that the people of this country are better off than they have ever been . |
| 14 | She said , ‘ The Americans are better off than we are , that 's why . |
| 15 | ‘ People who have n't seen my ( early ) movies are better off than I am … but like all actors I needed the work . |
| 16 | Smart-drugs are all right if you can stand the colour and the stench of your piss while you 're doing ‘ em . |
| 17 | The male sex drive being what it is , the chances of his being able to stop are less perhaps than she realizes . |
| 18 | And not been in much since she came back . |
| 19 | Well , I , I , mean I have been in before and I did say last time we were n't very happy , . |
| 20 | ‘ And you know that I am only here because I have royal authority ? ’ |
| 21 | Yeah well the police are down here watching and what J er what erm John , John 's worried about is that erm the police have been along here and they 've had , had complaints and John was out at the gate and he was talking to them and they , they 'll fine them . |
| 22 | Now I 've just seen traffic a long way down here , leading to Ella Park and Warren Lane , now I , I 've never been along here and I do n't know but I c coming up the road I saw cars down here |
| 23 | It , it has n't been so far because I 'm left right behind a background . |
| 24 | It 's been so ever since I 've known her — she was the eldest , and felt herself a mother to the pair of them . |
| 25 | I mean the first two the first two or three nights after and that 's like the sleeping death because it 's it 'd been so long since I had a complete nights sleep . |
| 26 | The thing is , it 's been so long since I 've been that I have n't got a clue how much tickets are likely to be . |
| 27 | It 's been so long since I spent oh at least three quarters of a lunch break . |
| 28 | It had been so long since she 'd seen so many people all at once . |
| 29 | But it had been so long since she 'd talked , really talked to anyone , that now she felt stiff and awkward . |
| 30 | Not as big as I am down here cos you would n't look right would you ? |