Example sentences of "[pers pn] are [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The awkward ones for me are when they start throwing stuff like er |
| 2 | You perhaps do not realize how long and desperately people have fought to keep Winston Spencer Churchill in the wilderness , and how furiously angry many of them are that he is back where he belongs . |
| 3 | You know , I do n't know she is she 's she 's a real nice that 's wh well all all them are but you know |
| 4 | So , I mean these are the supporters that they , they 've got to sort of focus on erm even i he does say that some of the erm er leaders of the associations are n't actually up to scratch but he says eighty five percent of them are and it would be wrong to attack or to arrest , you know , the other fifteen percent and it 's got to come from their own discipline of the association , you let the movement grow together , do n't try and er become er , you know , resisting forces because er these are the people who we 've got to erm s stay with and to look after , to harness erm to work for and er so that 's basically , is his conclusion . |
| 5 | ‘ Seven or eight hundred years of sewers , underground rivers , tunnels , and nobody knows where half of them are until they 're excavating or making changes , as they were at the Priory . |
| 6 | it does n't matter because all of them are as it happens fairly er new and indeed as Kevin says quite correctly , dry because they have n't been used for a long time . |
| 7 | You and I are but two of them , yet every one counts . |
| 8 | Swift ye are as streams and soundless as the dew fall , |
| 9 | Which in some senses , defining it crudely , is that it matters more what you are than what you do . |
| 10 | Perhaps the most moving sentence in the whole book comes in the last chapter as he takes his leave of his reader : ‘ For it is not what you are nor what you have been that God regards with his most merciful eyes , but what you would like to be . ’ |
| 11 | Another very important consideration is how certain you are that you intend to stay in your present home . |
| 12 | Er swearing the papers basically saying who you are that this is the will er that er the person 's died of course er a and that you 're the person entitled to be a . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's what you are that matters to me , ’ Alice said impulsively . |
| 14 | There you are that says the end , that means it 's finished . |
| 15 | You always find wherever you are that the people who 've been there a long time get sort of erm a bit uppity , they think that they 're |
| 16 | I know you are but … ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Fear not , honoured woman , said he ; you are but lately arrived , and they come to bring you a present , which shall help marry your daughters . |
| 19 | Then one day she came on her own and said right out , ‘ You know something , you can be whatever you are but I still like you . ’ |
| 20 | Cut , stay where you are but reframe the shot by zooming out to a wider angle before continuing the recording . |
| 21 | The most appropriate way to reverse the stress cycle depends not only on who you are but on how bad the stress is . |
| 22 | He does n't know who you are but he 'll say he knows you . |
| 23 | And how strange , she thought , that I have come from him , and you are but now going to him , and yet I do not envy even you , the most enviable of women ! |
| 24 | You are but two-thirds of my age . |
| 25 | I know she 's disappointed as you are but may I coming in her place thank Nicholas Hinton and his colleagues for having me at the Barbican at this important annual public meeting . |
| 26 | When they were looking at Woolf , erm wh the other group 's a bit further on with Wolves than than you are but we were doing this morning about how Lily has difficulty painting her picture and erm Virginia Woolf says in her diary , I assure you all my novels are first rate before they were written . |
| 27 | No but you are but I mean |
| 28 | But surely it it 's happened that it 's getting er and and I touch wood I do n't know how superstitious you are but it 's getting better and better and better for you each time because when you came here ooh some years ago since you first came into this studio er you were pretty popular then but it seems to increase all the time does n't it ? |
| 29 | Well it 's loud where you are but |
| 30 | I thought , maybe you are but at the same time |