Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pron] be [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , we do see a good deal of what is around us and not simply whatever it is that we happen to be staring at . |
| 2 | I 'm also grateful that you did n't … you did n't take advantage of what was between us six years ago . |
| 3 | Your reasons for this colossal exploitation of what is to you hi-tech may be quite divorced from ours ( we want to look for black holes , whereas you want to ascertain the precise time you should sacrifice a virgin in order to propitiate the gods ) , but the principle is much the same . |
| 4 | ‘ The best place for him is with me , ’ she declared . |
| 5 | Considering there was no one to look after her at Lomond View , I decided that the best place for her was with me . ’ |
| 6 | The lawyers , too , agreed that on the basis of what was before him , the Sheriff had no alternative . |
| 7 | ‘ Then your feelings for me are as mine for you ? ’ he asked softly . |
| 8 | To dwell on the Caledonian Canal for a moment , this was my first of many passages through which is for me the most beautiful of all the canals — the ultimate in inland waterways , so I had been looking forward to it immensely . |
| 9 | If your complaint can not be resolved locally , your representative will ask you to complete a report form , the original of which is for you and a copy will be forwarded to our Head Office . |
| 10 | There were statements of intent , exhortations , graphs and charts all aimed at producing improvements in what was to me at that time the nebulous concept of ‘ Quality ’ . |
| 11 | A new product release , for example , might be angled for the consumer media along the lines of the second release given above for Brand A. But for the retail trade press much more emphasis will need to be given to discounts , special promotions and advertising — in fact , full details of what 's in it for the retailer . |
| 12 | Yet there were also great difficulties in fitting these large numbers of people into what was for them a new and strange society . |
| 13 | I hope you are all well , and end with a liberal distribution of good wishes to whoever is with you at present . |
| 14 | They fail to grasp that what is required is their own detailed response to what is before them . |
| 15 | yeah , you ca n't totter a bit without them being on it , they 're like vultures sitting on a rail there , looking at you |
| 16 | The experience of being molested once as a child and then a man jumping in her car at 21 yrs and her running away remained with her so that she has persistent fear of being attacked and the sense of someone being behind her . |
| 17 | It all seemed too important for that : a warning of what was inside us all as human beings and of what we must avoid at all costs . |
| 18 | Some people fall in love with what is like them ; others with what is different . |
| 19 | Moralists able only to think of autonomy , of the active imposition of the will on what is round us , miss the essential values of receptivity , of contemplation , of openness to the splendours of what is not oneself . |
| 20 | The same guarantee I can offer for all my house , whose will to you is as mine . |
| 21 | ‘ A lot of them are about you . |
| 22 | ‘ I have brought you here , Miss Kyte , ’ resumed Miss Merchiston in what was for her a pleasant tone , ‘ that you may tell Mr Quatt of what passed between yourself and my dear mother . ’ |
| 23 | Though what she 's doing with a thick Irish cunt like you is beyond me . ’ |
| 24 | For there to be such a fact about me is for it also to be true , roughly , that in certain circumstances I would consciously believe , desire , fear , intend , or whatever . |
| 25 | The man felt his melancholy enlarge as if — oddly — to take on the shape and texture of what was before him . |
| 26 | If I was right in supposing this to be the nub of his argument , then a prior question to be considered was : ‘ Do people in fact suppose themselves to be justified in using the word ‘ hot ’ of material things , like fires , because they think there is something in the fire like what is in them when they feel hot ? ’ |
| 27 | In the distant she heard the sound of an ice cream van with it 's with it 's jingly little tune playing and she thought oh , I 'd love an ice cream ! |