Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | What all of them contend is that the auditory effect of all English-language verse can only in a schematic and starveling fashion be pin-pointed by applying the only two measurements that traditional scansion recognizes : on the one hand the number of syllables , on the other the number of occurrences of ictus or ‘ stress ’ . |
| 2 | The name of the doctor you want me to see is Pool . |
| 3 | ‘ Sometimes it really gets me down , ’ he admits , ‘ but the thing that keeps me goin' is live performances . |
| 4 | this the , what makes me laugh is that people 's intelligence , they walk along a street shopping and as soon as they walk into a restaurant they sit down and start smoking |
| 5 | makes me laugh is , that you get all these toys for children , sort of , nought to three months |
| 6 | but what makes me laugh is doctor he 's , I think he 's absolutely cracked |
| 7 | What made me laugh was the Conservative broadcast on Wednesday was real propaganda , trying to frighten you to death that if the Labour got in |
| 8 | what made me laugh was this police woman saying , it annoys me , if you have a drink you should n't drive , and I thought to myself and I bet |
| 9 | Gangs of men were at work trying to rescue the contents of the burning shacks , going from one to another , putting out the fires ; or so I thought till with a shock it came to me that these were no rescuers but incendiaries , that the battle I saw them waging was not with the flames but with the rain . |
| 10 | Some of them included are Lauren Harris , David Milne , William Stevenson and Clark McDougall ( 7–30 May ) . |
| 11 | I suppose the appeal to me has been making things happen and changing things and feeling quite British about it and proud of what in my very small way I have been able to do in this country and being able to export that abroad and make it a success there . |
| 12 | I find myself alone with the steward who tells me has been working on this line for the past twenty-five years . |
| 13 | But the real discovery for me has been the final item on Disc 1 , the Messe des Pauvres , composed , incredibly , in 1895 . |
| 14 | I must mention one member — Angela ( nee Feetenby ) — for her help to me has been second to none — not only do I congratulate her for that but on your behalf I want to wish her every happiness in her new life — she was married last July to Harry Bell . |
| 15 | The interesting feature for me has been the wider range of climbers active on the hard classics . |
| 16 | If not , let me know because the copy you loaned me has been returned . |
| 17 | What you say to me has been said only to me . |
| 18 | Well yes it is certainly fascinating to hear the views of , of members an and indeed it , it 's tempting to go on I think about or personal experience of floods , but this is not the time or the place I would suggest to do that erm strategic planning seems to me has been the venue for discussions with Southern Water Authority with the National Rivers Authority itself , we are the committee that tries to look many , many years ahead . |
| 19 | The most upsetting thing for me has been to see her medical notes and realise that she could have got the right treatment at home … that is if her country was n't being torn apart by war |
| 20 | Oh I I ca n't pinpoint the actual programme , it 's just er what people are telling me has been st er stated on Radio Nottingham . |
| 21 | And so though we have all sinned and that circle , that perfect purpose of God for you and for me has been warped and distorted out of all recognition , the potential that God had for you and for me , it 's been dis it seems to have been destroyed because of the warping and because of the impact of sin . |
| 22 | There are laws against discrimination but to get them respected is another matter . |
| 23 | The second edition of this guide to medicines for older people and those who help care for them has been published by Age Concern England . |
| 24 | True each of them has been finely tuned . |
| 25 | The objective of the other forms of nationalization was clearly similar and the effect of each of them has been to reduce foreign ownership in the corporate sector to a relatively modest level . |
| 26 | However , none of them has been found in an archaeological context and they have aroused considerable suspicion : they could be relatively modern copies loosely based on Italic originals ; they could be genuine prehistoric imports ; or they could be perfectly genuine figures brought to Britain relatively recently as curios and since discarded or lost . |
| 27 | Those who do not believe in delegation to committees argue that each of them has been elected by the public to watch their interests and therefore they should each have a voice in the decisions of every committee . |
| 28 | The first pre-retirement courses were held in the United States in 1949 , but it is only in the last ten to fifteen years that the need for them has been recognised in the United Kingdom . |
| 29 | None of them has been identified , so all the old grannies are champing toothlessly today . ’ |
| 30 | It would seem that everything between them has been ruined — but no , they decide to treat the day as if it had never been ; and when he has gone Emily picks up her goose-quill pen and again writes ‘ Dear Edmund ’ . |