Example sentences of "be [prep] [pers pn] [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am sorry to hear of the job losses to which the hon. Gentleman refers , but the only secure future for the coal industry or , indeed , for any other industry , is for it to produce something that people want at a price that people can afford . |
| 2 | It 's like me telling someone from India that they should n't write a book about the caste system , because we do n't have one ! ’ |
| 3 | It 's like me telling someone from India that they should n't write a book about the caste system , because we do n't have one ! ’ |
| 4 | She told herself later that she could n't have been expected to remember what a knife-edge he lived on , how hard it was for him to trust anyone . |
| 5 | Undry was in her mind , shedding troubled surges of light through deep darkness ; what am I going to do ? she wondered , and knew it was beyond her to decide anything . |