Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | fancy the paella he said no problem I make paella so , I mean all of half an hour went by , but we went in and we had paella and then all these people started dancing , they moved the chairs back and they started clapping and singing and dancing and I said is this |
| 32 | And — and I liked being alone . ’ |
| 33 | At the time , what Lissa and I did was supposed to be a trial separation . |
| 34 | The only thing Illona and I have is future ’ . |
| 35 | Incidentally , Bob and I have been involved in some hospital visiting lately , and were surprised to find that more than half the patients in the ward had been taken ill on holiday , and consequently felt doubly cut off . |
| 36 | Now I mean I am interested in this problem , and I have been involved in situations where teachers have sought help in trying to change their teaching style in the classroom , but in all these cases this help the initiative has been very much from the teachers themselves and they 've wanted to do it , they 've wanted to experiment with it and have been given a lot of support and help with it . |
| 37 | I should have been very glad of your society this last year , Maureen has been at the Royal College of Music , and I have been much alone , only for the animal 's company I do n't know what I should have done and poor Mr. Papworth [ a dog ] has been so ill we had to telephone a vet up at 2 a.m. one morning it was a funny night , Jack and I in our dressing gowns in the kitchen trying to comfort Mr. Papworth . |
| 38 | Being Ten Years ' History of the Union of Democratic Control , 1924 , and I Have been Young , 1935 . ] |
| 39 | It is open to any local education authority to tilt its scheme towards primary schools and I have been encouraging local education authorities , where appropriate , to revise their schemes with precisely that aim . |
| 40 | Now Daph and I have been married for 30 years . |
| 41 | As for myself — Bob and I have been married for forty-six years , and spent most of our married life on and around Manchester , where he was ( eventually ) Market Research Manager in an engineering firm , and I practised social work when not fully engaged with the 2 children . |
| 42 | ‘ My sister and I have been estranged some years . |
| 43 | Over the past few years I have read a great deal of specifically Christian literature in the field of economics and I have been impressed by one thing : while much has been said about the immorality of the modern corporation and the injustice of the structures of international trade and while a little has been said , especially in North America , about the role of government and the need for proper control of money and credit , very little has been written about trade unions . |
| 44 | Your uncle and I have been worried to death ! |
| 45 | ‘ Do you know this is the first time you and I have been alone together , ’ he whispered . |
| 46 | Liza and I have been busy with our apple-and-quince jelly ; the kitchen is veiled and festooned in dripping jelly-muslin , ingeniously caught up amongst the legs of inverted chairs , like spider-webs . |
| 47 | ‘ It is quite some time now since I last wrote to you , but both my wife Joan and I have been busy putting on shows for the Children 's Rescue Society , The Family Rainbow Trust , old people 's homes and Guide Dogs for the Blind , etc . |
| 48 | As an islander I can see something of both points of view , and I have been aware of a sense of embarrassment in some of my Faroese friends that the outside world should think of them as ‘ barbarians ’ . |
| 49 | ‘ Juliette and I have been able to help each other . |
| 50 | Most have replied and I have been able to draft a progress report which enables you to see what stage your councils have reached and how they match up to progress in other councils . |
| 51 | However , I have had occasion recently to visit the Church Road offices of the Environmental Health and Building Control sections of the Council and I have been appalled to see the conditions in which these people have to work . |
| 52 | The shop has been on the market for over a year , and I have been unable to find a buyer . |
| 53 | I mean I have been drunk , I have been stoned , I have passed out and I have been ill . |
| 54 | I should mention that Merlyn and I have been parliamentary colleagues and friends for nearly 20 years , since he was elected by the same people of south Leeds who had sent Hugh Gaitskell to the House of Commons . |
| 55 | As time has progressed I have produced a bit more and I have been prepared to show things that went a bit further back ; I have extended the oeuvre at both ends . |
| 56 | And I suppose being predictable about it all , I better play this for you if you 're on your way to an aerobics keep fit class some time this afternoon , or this evening . |
| 57 | You 're both hot right now and you 've been hot all your lives . ’ |
| 58 | I 've had a long life and many blessings and you 've been one of the best . |
| 59 | And you 've been married how long ? |
| 60 | I think so too probably , and you 've been used to it . |