Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [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 | " If you want to be a good wife to me , and only the Lord knows how many times you 've said that 's what you want , you can stop asking questions and making deductions about where I been or what 's passed my lips , see ? |
| 8 | I bet I been and forgot what I come in here for now I 'm not really sure . |
| 9 | You and I are but two of them , yet every one counts . |
| 10 | ‘ Just shows you how much more important I am than them , does n't it ? ’ she laughed . |
| 11 | Yes I am 'cause I want some . |
| 12 | ‘ Dear lady , I am but an errand boy in the Foreign Service … ’ |
| 13 | On the accession of Henry Tudor , the Shepherd Lord , as the young Clifford was known , was given back his lands and his faithful retainer knighted at his request ; ‘ I am but a simple man , Your Majesty , and I know not how I should be styled , ’ the good servant protested . |
| 14 | Let the worst happen , I am but as I was before : I shall eat as long as I can , and sleep when I am easy . |
| 15 | Tho' I highly respect Mrs. Leapor 's character from the account you give of it , yet as she was absolutely unknown to myself , and I am but little acquainted even with her writings , I am upon this account as well as many others , entirely unfit for such an undertaking as you propose . |
| 16 | ‘ You have made me great with your love , though I am but one among the many , drifting in the common tide , rocking in the fluctuant favour of the world . |
| 17 | ‘ I am but mad north-north-west . |
| 18 | ‘ I am but companion to the lady Anne . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Nay , my lady , I am but the offspring of a carpenter and a washerwoman , ’ Joan said bitterly , close to tears . |
| 20 | He says " I am but a signpost pointing the way " . |
| 21 | I feel as if I 'll die if I stay where I am but I 'm scared to get up and go somewhere else . |
| 22 | I still ca n't read him ; I 'm not able to tell whether he thinks this is likely or not , whether he thinks this is evidence I 'm not his man or he still thinks I am but I had help . |
| 23 | ‘ I am but one . |
| 24 | Monsieur thinks I am but I know Madame Duvalle does n't agree . |
| 25 | HAMLET : I am but mad north north-west ; when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw . |
| 26 | But remember , I am but the Prince 's hands . ’ |
| 27 | I am but a poor clerk ! |
| 28 | Yes I am but I do n't being as far away as I am |
| 29 | Erm so I 'm not quite sure how representative I am but er I think they do this every forty years or something and then they kind of analyse the sort of speech content , that sort of stuff . |
| 30 | My mum thinks I 'm having a great time , as I tell her that I am but it 's a lie , and it has n't got any better . |