Example sentences of "[be] [conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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31 so you 've got a guideline as to what you are if you need it .
32 Chances are if you bought your racket in Britain it already had strings in it — unlike in the USA where the retailer will ask you a lot of questions about how you play and then string your new frame for you .
33 I 've not been but they say there are .
34 I mean I am but I mean I like fish er
35 I said if you said to me , Geoff , I want all the overtime I can get I can get the overtime I 'll go round and I 'll try and or if you say to me well I do n't want the overtime , I 'm quite happy with a flat week then I 'll know what I am but I said you change from day to day , one day you wann it , another day you do n't !
36 I do n't expect the heartbeat award scheme to suffer , I will be in touch with Matthew fairly closely to ensure that , but I think the position of the labour group is that we can not support these recommendations as they are but we offer you a compromise solution .
37 I ca n't remember what their names are but somebody tells me they 're are the most extraordinarily noisy family .
38 there are but I mean it 's it 's silly for people to say once a man is sexually aroused it 's quite difficult to stop is n't it ?
39 In the end , I 'd say , ‘ Yes , you are but I love you anyway , ' ’ In truth the experience had a dreadful effect on her marriage and on her relationship with her brothers and sisters , who fell out with her .
40 I think steel balls are But you see you can do a display on your table ca n't you
41 yeah , well I was gon na say those new five P's are but you see you just get the new five P's and low and behold they will produce something else
42 It could only have been because he read his poetry .
43 And if Madame stayed close to him , it can hardly have been because she thought he needed looking after .
44 I do n't know I do n't know how long income support 's going to be , I do n't know how long my next pay packet 's gon na be or what have you .
45 Once you 've made your call , they might ask you to stay by the phone erm , to contact you back it might be that they ask you did you want anybody contacted to tell them that , that you 've broken down , they will do that for you .
46 And I wonder if it seems to be that they prefer you come out of the upper drawer than come up with your brilliant A levels or whatever .
47 ‘ Might it be , I 'm only hazarding a guess , you realize that , but might it be that they want you to get them out here again ? ’
48 The answer must be that they have nothing to do with crofting as such , and little to do with agriculture , although there are agricultural problems .
49 If the speaker is lying , for instance , it may be that what caused his utterance was something quite opposed to belief in what he meant to say , or a favourable attitude towards what his utterance was meant to commend .
50 Well , it might be that we regard it as whether everybody else interprets it that way .
51 One effect on the rest of us will be that we cause ourselves endless trouble by losing them .
52 I think our strategy should be that we pare our prices down , to the absolute minimum that we think we can do the work for , take a little bit more off that and hope to get some money back on variations .
53 It may well be that we send what we consider to be the fuller report there .
54 No well we might well it might be that we say we want a combined party , I do n't know ,
55 Indeed at times it appears that she thinks that this liberation progresses from age to age ( though in correspondence she tells me that she thinks that the conclusion to history may well be that we annihilate ourselves ) .
56 Do you think it will always be that we have one ?
57 And my plea would be that we do everything we possibly can and that 's why I found the quotation from scripture in this section so apposite , that we do everything we possibly can in grace and love and truth to help people to enter into a commitment to the ministry of the whole people of God .
58 He did not say what it was but it may be that we found it in the safe this morning .
59 In a rape case the typical defence argument is that the woman consented to intercourse , while in sex murder the defence may be that she provoked him .
60 I can not quite recall what he said ; it may be that he said nothing , which , rather than utter anything trite , he sometimes preferred to do .
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