Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] be [noun] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Erm I mean you know it 's sort of there were certainly there were certainly groups of black tenants and white tenants who mixed , and there were certainly groups of of white tenants who would n't mix with the black tenants and vice versa . |
| 32 | Britain may have to bide it 's time for it 's next tennis hero … |
| 33 | Well I do n't think there 's provision for him now you see because it 's a |
| 34 | I mean there 's chaps like myself — about twelve stone ten pounds — you were expected to carry bags of barley at sixteen stone four ; and sometimes there was n't a job for you in the hard days when there was a lot of men out of work . |
| 35 | but I mean there 's spares in them anyway |
| 36 | what you 're looking for I mean there were firms like you know |
| 37 | ‘ Not a bit , it 's just that I do n't tell anything , you see , and the Community likes that , they feel I 'm part of them . |
| 38 | I suppose we 're nutters in our own way . ’ |
| 39 | well , here , I think it fitted in , I think it was this way , it 's a little bit difficult to see from the decision itself , erm this do , when these were notified there were provisions in it for example in relation to admission and expulsion , which the commission objected to and erm , I think one can summarize that this must of happen , the commission said to the marketing question if you do n't remove this restriction or if you do n't erm eradicate what we see as the arbitrary element of |
| 40 | A chain linking her handcuffs was tied to a bar above her , and Sams warned there were boulders over her head . |
| 41 | ‘ We believe there are others with him , too , shadows . |
| 42 | It seems that when they were made to lie down in the back of the truck and their hands were tied behind them , Katrine remembers there being rags underneath her . |
| 43 | Amanda had been all enthusiastic even in the rain , saying it was spray in her face and look at the gulls , which were swooping down on the shoal of crisp packets and orange peel trailing in the wake . |
| 44 | At home he did n't spook at bright blue barrels , a wall or planks , so we decided it was time for our first party . |
| 45 | Probably because most of us were n't really , well , quite a few of us anyway were n't thinking about sex at that time , so I suppose it was kind of you know , you just started |
| 46 | Could , local secretary for the environment , be convinced/ If the right equipment was readily available , would he encourage it 's use throughout his kingdom . |
| 47 | And my poor mam you know , she used to scrub her hands with erm it was n't Dettol it was Lysol in them days was n't it what they used to use . |
| 48 | Perhaps you feel it 's part of your duty as my host . ’ |
| 49 | He only realised they were vibrancers by their costume , for their postures were lax and their hair , unlike the tidy short haircuts of Por Tanssie students , very long . |
| 50 | ‘ I could understand it with the men , who thought I was coming-on to them , but the women 's reluctance puzzled me , until I discovered that the City people discouraged the country dwellers ( she objects to the word ‘ peasant ’ ) from having their picture taken . |
| 51 | ‘ I could understand it with the men , who thought I was coming-on to them , but the women 's reluctance puzzled me , until I discovered that the City people discouraged the country dwellers ( she objects to the word ‘ peasant ’ ) from having their picture taken . |
| 52 | Perhaps they thought she was part of his troupe ? |
| 53 | ‘ I thought she was friends with everybody . |
| 54 | I would never have given him the sweet if I knew there was acid in it . |
| 55 | Their draughts of memory were clear and generous but the daughters — in truth Richard 's nieces but brought up as his sisters — thought there were points with which they did not wish to embarrass their mother and after our talks Rhianon wrote : |
| 56 | I looked down and saw there was blood on his forehead . |
| 57 | I saw there was blood in his mouth . |
| 58 | I bet there 's loads of them like it in there , these should be tapped in by both leads |
| 59 | Discreetly , once we knew they were friends of yours . ’ |
| 60 | ‘ When I first saw them I thought they were costermongers with their black and white trousers . |