Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] be [noun] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Whatever it was you said to him has caused him to cancel the work I was doing for him . |
| 2 | For a moment there is indecision among them . |
| 3 | For a long moment there was silence between them as she stared unseeingly down at her own hand caught in his surprisingly tender grasp . |
| 4 | At this point there is need for me to give some detail about the shape and nature of the primary curriculum to which all children should have access . |
| 5 | Oh , it is the landscape gardeners and a very nice job they 're doing of it . |
| 6 | Yes at the moment he 's sort of he he 's the lone ranger is n't he Collimore . |
| 7 | With his few belongings it was home to him wherever he went . |
| 8 | After six years it was time for me to move on to Debenham High School . |
| 9 | Specifiedly general objects , such as forms and universals , by their very nature stand for the many things which are instances of them : a single particular may be in a variety of relations — most obviously causal , spatial or temporal - to others , but the nature of a ‘ standing for ’ relation is obscure . |
| 10 | How , that is , do they relate to the particular things which are instances of them , and to our minds when we think of those things as men , or as triangles ? |
| 11 | controls those authorised persons who are members of it by requiring them to comply with the rules of the organisation . |
| 12 | controls those authorised persons who are members of it . |
| 13 | When they finally settled in the branches of a tree there were hordes of them , so many that they looked like fruit overburdening their source ‘ ripe to be plucked . |
| 14 | ‘ You must be mad , insane , ’ Agnes almost yelled at her , only to clap a hand over her mouth and glance towards the door as if expecting it to open and her mother to appear ; and for a while there was silence between them , except for the slight moaning sound coming from Jessie . |
| 15 | For a while there was silence between them . |
| 16 | But er I 'll tell you the most dangerous thing a tin of peas , if you put it into your pot there 's sugar in it , if you look at that , the ingredients |
| 17 | In the province of the night there was harmony between us . |
| 18 | Since then she has written to tell us of her first reply and we thought you 'd also be interested in some of the suggestions that came in , including Dee Murton 's account of the origin of these cardboard cones which was news to us . |
| 19 | Not just the right to negotiate , but to but the organization should actually be organized to benefit the people who are part of it . |
| 20 | Not because I was made to be late , but I , I , I , I 'd , me mother had made me cos she said you got ta come home to your dinner and there was no buses there were trams in them days , but I 'd got to get into the town . |
| 21 | They like training which they can actually apply , that has practical applications so say if you 're thinking of something like erm motivation styles or something like that , if you were gon na introduce Lounslow I du n no at the motivation there are loads of them one 's Lounslow one 's Hertzberg if you were introducing our training to a pragmatist what would be essential is you could actually show the practical application of it , if you just put forward C V and no practical application the pragmatist would say well this is all very well in theory , but how can I apply it to my job and if they ca n't they think well what 's the value of this . |
| 22 | Bollocks there 's honey on it , do n't talk shit it 's pure sugar |
| 23 | ‘ Now that I 've eaten and drunk my fill it 's time for me to beat away , ’ he said after about an hour . |
| 24 | The they 're never sort of given feeble excuses , we are erm very truthful with them , i in order to make them understand that , you know , there are limitations erm within our jobs as well , cos a lot of people expect things , and erm you may promise them , well other people may promise them , and it 's not delivered then of course it 's sort of them and us , and we , we try to dispel that idea , it 's not them |
| 25 | It 's afternoon keep saying that it 's afternoon it 's morning to me this afternoon pick up your phone and give me a ring now O nine O four six four one six four one . |
| 26 | In the fifteenth century London remained under merchant rule : all but 6 of the 88 men who were mayor during it were drawn from the 6 greatest companies , the mercers , grocers , drapers , fishmongers , goldsmiths and skinners . |
| 27 | A had no proprietary interest in the farm but had transmitted earlier offers for it to the bank who were trustees of it . |
| 28 | Beside me they look even slimmer , and I start thinking : maybe that 's the only reason they are friends with me ? |
| 29 | Anyway Douglas it 's time for you to go and have your next injection is n't it ? |
| 30 | A long-standing friendship with an Asian family who were neighbours of mine led to my being involved in the process of Statementing their youngest child , Balbinder Singh . |