Example sentences of "[noun] be [adj] [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are doing our best to ensure that fans are well-behaved and I think players have a responsibility too . ’ |
| 2 | The four Strauss songs are unremarkable as I have already inferred , but the Sibelius , Rangström and Grieg , the texts fully comprehended , are all given considered readings . |
| 3 | I think my babies and animals are good and I enjoy doing it … . |
| 4 | My legs are warm and I give them a feel . |
| 5 | ‘ I knew your legs were good but I did n't realize they were that spectacular , ’ Prince Charles is reported to have commented . |
| 6 | The back kitchen was a lean-to , had no ceiling so the slates of the sloping roof were visible and I remember some of the roof timbers were country-cut , still displaying the odd sign of bark . |
| 7 | You , erm , I use buses and cars and I use a bike as well , er , er I think that , we used to have a car and I stopped using it , I used it , we had it when the kids were small and I found it really good for getting them around and it really was necessary to young mothers but their big now and I do n't have to chauffeur . |
| 8 | But at least my goals were clear and I knew what I wanted . |
| 9 | Trainee chef Tom Wilkinson , 20 , said : ‘ The action sequences were entertaining and I rated the whole thing as pretty good . ’ |
| 10 | Some of these girlie fans must think that David is wonderful but I do n't think they want to grab hold of him and shag him to death . |
| 11 | With children , your alternative is hard but I think it 's like a John Donne paradox : you 're bound but you 're also free ’ . |
| 12 | Now Jean was pleased because I do sequence dancing which I learnt with my husband , and so now this coming September when we start back again , once a month I 'm going to teach some sequence dancing in the hope that some young ones would , will hear of it and , and join because then once you can sort of get them involved with one thing you may sort of get good numbers . |
| 13 | ‘ My agent was aghast when I did Freejack . |
| 14 | Largely forgotten until recently , Watson 's fine sun-dappled landscapes had elegant figure studies have begun to reappear in London galleries , including Richard Green , and Blamey was surprised that I had heard of him . |
| 15 | Key was surprised when I asked him to clear up the controversy . |
| 16 | ‘ When I came back from town Rocky was asleep so I knew something was wrong because normally he 's rushing to be let off the chain , ’ said Mr Taylor . |
| 17 | The wind was high when I knocked at her door , and I heard a voice from within that I knew not what to make of , though it sounded like the lullaby of a Mother to her Baby . |
| 18 | The luggage lizards were asleep when I came to . |
| 19 | ‘ If a sigh is four beats too late , I 'm on the other side of the stage four beats too early and the laugh is dead and I 've lost one of the best moments in the show . ’ |
| 20 | Similarly , reconsider the example introduced as ( 8 ) above : ( 25 ) The flag is white Since I have given no further information about other colours the flag may contain , which might indeed be highly relevant to the proceedings , I may be taken to implicate that the flag has no other colours and is thus wholly white . |
| 21 | Getting its feet into the black binliner is difficult but I manage by laying it down on its stomach and pretending to play this little piggy with its toes till it goes into its silly reverse-crawl routine . |
| 22 | It 's now , it 's still only about five per cent , but I think that that proportion is growing and I think this is something universities would welcome very much . |
| 23 | This clearance was important because I did intend to ask one or two questions about a matter which had already been aired in several books and articles , her love affair with H. G. Wells and the child of that union , the writer Anthony West . |
| 24 | I was never conscious that my attire was odd until I had my first normal boy 's gear . |
| 25 | ‘ Do you know , Father , it was n't until Whitton was dead that I realised how he had held us in his evil thrall . ’ |
| 26 | No , no I was gon na say some you know , just sort of just some ideas are good but I tell you have n't they got some beautiful erm candle holders around this year some really unusual ones . |
| 27 | The extract from his speech is long , but its contents are important and I feel it merits reproducing in full : |
| 28 | Will your squire be generous if I do , do you think ? |
| 29 | And my cheeks were red as I thought of those precious moments . |
| 30 | The dogs were surprised when I disturbed them in the middle of the night and they chased in their runs when I left again , strained to see me departing through the rain , and hear the car door opening , their bowls clanking as I threw them inside . |