Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [verb] [pron] [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ On the race track everyone must believe he is the fastest . |
| 2 | I must say it was the worst experience of my life , each time I looked over the stable door the most terrible thoughts went through my mind : what if he was lying down ? |
| 3 | I should think it 's the best way , I ca n't think of anything else . |
| 4 | ‘ I should think he was the only creature for whom Lavinia truly cared . ’ |
| 5 | If I did n't know Karen I should think I was the candidate for diabetes . |
| 6 | I should imagine it 's the shiny one but I do n't . |
| 7 | Last year was erm , an additional twenty thousand pounds at the last moment , chickenfeed for the big committees , that 's the annoying thing , but what particularly annoys me , and I have to say this , I 'll express it is the knowledge that what can be a phenomenal deprivation to this Committee , goes very , very , very little towards solving the major problems that this county faces , it does n't have a tremendous impact . |
| 8 | wrong anyway in that er I 'll say it 's the er early on it in the report Good defines what he determines a prus trustees duty and as I said to a sort of effectively orb enter into a tr transaction which immediately cost effecting kind of money rather than making money for the pension fund er is against that duty in the first place , but it to it should however be ma made explicit that it is against that duty which I will say stock lending may be okay for a pension fund , but not stock lending where the er pension fund is acting as the borrower rather than the lender . |
| 9 | Our Tory MP did jump off his LandRover to shake my hand and take one of my leaflets the other day , but as far as I could tell I was the only voter he met that morning . |
| 10 | I did n't know who the guy riding it was , but through my police issue 200 × 6000 macroscopic laser-prism binoculars I could see he was the same guy who had just bopped the doorman in the head . |
| 11 | ‘ And , ’ I went on , ‘ I 'd assume it was the person who killed Angela Brickell who wanted to fix the blame for ever on Harry by making him disappear , only … ’ |
| 12 | And if anyone came up and told me off for sleeping on the pavement I 'd say I was the King of England and I can sleep anywhere I like . |
| 13 | I 'd like Who 's the King of the Jungle . |
| 14 | Absolutely , I would think they 're the three heroes erm Les Phillips in midfield was back to the Les Phillips we knew when he first came to Oxford from Birmingham when we were in the first division . |
| 15 | I do view this as one of the ‘ great classics but I do not know if I would say it is the greatest book ever written in English as I have not yet read widely enough but I would definitely say that for all the above reasons that it is a great book . |
| 16 | Put your money on he 's one of the top in fact I would say he 's the hardest bloke in Shields him . |
| 17 | Now Greater York chairman , er we 've had an interesting discussion this morning , the , what I would say there is the allocation of a hundred and forty five hectares to Greater York is in fact the product of several years of of quite detailed study by the Greater York authorities on on a joint basis . |
| 18 | Well , Mrs Davis , I ca n't promise you a rise ( and I certainly would n't be bold enough to ask you for a hug ! ) but what I can offer you is the chance to choose between a substantial pay-rise … £1,500 a year … and a cheque for the generous sum of £15,000 . |
| 19 | But I can see he 's the worse for wear , the weathering the worker wreaks on himself . |
| 20 | True , the attraction of becoming ‘ British ’ is a big one , but as far as I can see it is the only one . |
| 21 | The only thing I can see there is the different venues will obviously will have different , differences to cope with that |
| 22 | His handwriting was so bad that Mr Sunderland had pinned his composition to the notice-board in the hall so everyone could see he was the worst writer in the whole school . |
| 23 | Well she may know who are the architects are anyway . |
| 24 | ‘ If you must know it 's the men in the prison-ships who fire the gun . ’ |
| 25 | You might say like the law courts here , you know , you might say what 're the law courts er as associated in what they , they do ? |
| 26 | I suppose you might say it 's the real thing . ’ |
| 27 | She 'll think it 's the food . ’ |
| 28 | She could see it was the wrong thing to say and his black brows rose coldly . |
| 29 | She 'd pretend he was the servant , obediently paddling her down the Nile . |
| 30 | From the behaviour of the Crown Prosecution Service and Scotland Yard when we presented them with our damning evidence , you 'd think WE were the guilty party . |