Example sentences of "course [pers pn] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It took me a while to realise that of course I am not really opening a window : something is zooming forward and appearing out of nothing . |
| 2 | The board processes themselves often do not work , so one often hears the remark : the company policy is X , but of course I am not personally in support of this , I believe we should be doing Y. Since industrial success depends totally on getting the concentration of effort of widely differing groups of people with different skills to be applied at optimum effect to the achievement of the common goal , it is not difficult to see why such disparate messages strike at one 's heart and give one a more than usual dose of despair . |
| 3 | And of course I am not an unworldly man — the Earl , my brother , whom I 'm sure you will meet , will assure you that I am , by his standards , too interested in confirming and enlarging the wealth of the estates — and indeed on my visits to Egypt and Turkey and the New World I have , I may say , made a purchase here , an investment there … ’ |
| 4 | Larissa talks of going beyond structuralism and goes so far as to disown it : ‘ of course I am not a structuralist I never have been I merely played with it ’ ( 84/662 ) . |
| 5 | Of course I am not advocating a return to the kind of education that so wounded me as a child . |
| 6 | Of course I am not here arguing for a return to a three-tier model of reality seen in literalistic terms . |
| 7 | I am referring , after all , to a series of very minor errors on my part and the course I am now pursuing is merely a means of pre-empting any ‘ problems ’ before one arises . |
| 8 | I too , feel sensitive to the prospecting evaluative probe : the course I am now running has not yet completed its first year . |
| 9 | It is up to each one of us , he wrote , at every point in our lives , to decide how much order and how much disorder , how much discipline and how much freedom we need for the best realization of our project of the moment , even though that project may turn out to be flawed or even utterly mistaken in the short run , of course I am only talking about the short run , he wrote , in the long run , as I have already said , both success and failure are quite without meaning , the notion of meaning is quite without meaning . |
| 10 | ‘ Of course I am only the humble second wife . |
| 11 | Of course I was not saying I see people elbowed in the face 200 times a week . |
| 12 | Of course I was not — at least I told myself I was not — a puritan . |
| 13 | Of course I was not in a position to contradict her . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Well , I was very interested in having her see my cock , but of course I was n't ever going to just flip it out in front of her , I needed some … distancing step , so that ho ho ho yes we 're civilized adults here , it 's all on paper . |
| 15 | And so er it it was a a reasonably good wage but when I first started of course I was n't on piece rate , you used to get a penny an hour , when we worked Saturday morning got about six and sixpence a week . |
| 16 | And at the court I can remember this as a kid , at the court , of course I was n't in at at the court but I remember the story the blacklegs er picked out people and said they and they and they threw stones you see , through the window . |
| 17 | Though of course I was n't half as attractive as Lesley … ’ |
| 18 | And the competence checklists came from that training course I was on , that 's saying everybody , as well as having a job description , you 've got to have a competence ch checklist , for that that er helps you to develop the training for the job , depending on the competencies you need . |
| 19 | And of course I was also born almost with the , with one very important advantage , which was that I could speak German erm from birth , as well as English . |
| 20 | Of course I was out killing things . |
| 21 | Of course I was far too small , and they 'd have swum away from me in fright anyway , but that did n't stop me trying on occasion . |
| 22 | But of course I was always coming off-duty to find the thing burning away merrily in an empty hut . |
| 23 | I was asked to be a coachman for Cinderella with my best friend , of course I was very excited and as the time grew nearer my costume was made and fitted . |
| 24 | At the time I did the course I was still very inexperienced , and inclined to be impatient with Dawn 's training . |
| 25 | But of course I was back and forth . |
| 26 | I ca n't feel enthusiastic about the government training course I 'm on and although I have a nice boyfriend , I 'm trying to finish the relationship . |
| 27 | ‘ Of course I 'm fucking cooking them , ’ Eric said indignantly . |
| 28 | ‘ Of course I 'm not scared . |
| 29 | Of course I 'm not a philosopher — ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Of course I 'm not promising anything , old chap . |