Example sentences of "[pron] be [noun] [prep] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 No , I 'm sort of I think he confused himself as well as confusing me slightly
2 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 .
3 once she 's sort of you know
4 Well it was the same no distinction at all in that sense , but er you know we were sort of they had more serious things to talk about than I wan er you know I knew the cook , er couple of o other apprentices from the carpenters shop we used to go into the main th there was no-one to keep an eye on us in the in the mess-room you see , no-one to tell us .
5 that was what we were sort of we gathered in
6 Supposedly I , I think there are problems with it working .
7 And there are pages of them to learn .
8 There are records of it going back hundreds of years all across Europe and it is presumed it was based on fertility influences . ’
9 There are stories about him turning up at parties with various bimbos on his arm — you know the kind of thing .
10 Now there are calls for him to resign .
11 I 've never read a U2 interview so I do n't know if there are rumours about them doing insane things .
12 Erm what we get for the money , and erm where there are possibilities for us to consider reducing that overhead .
13 Venus will be in the area of love and relationships in January , June , July and November , so there are opportunities for you to find happiness and fulfilment this year .
14 There are photographs of him taken on this and other trips : Eliot smiling sleepily at the camera , wearing a white cap and sunglasses , smoking a cigar and wearing a pink shirt and blue pullover .
15 There are ways for me to hide .
16 I am bowled over by my first day at school ; there are scores of us sitting at long bench desks in a vast wooden hut .
17 There had n't been many teddy boys in Knockglen , in fact no one could ever remember having seen one except on visits to Dublin where there were groups of them hanging round corners .
18 This evening I visited Scouse 's latrine , the mosquitoes and all the flies were having a fieldday ; there were clouds of them hanging over the latrine in the still evening air .
19 what you 're looking for I mean there were firms like you know
20 His purpose was not only to prevent his own partisans from uniting to oust him , but also to use the fact that there were differences between them to strengthen his own position .
21 I mean during the er , preceding the General Strike , I know that there were pubs in you know , ordinary working class pubs , and they used to close with the singing of the Red Flag .
22 There were rows of them hanging on hooks , and stacks of them leaning against one another on the floor .
23 There were names on it linked with lines zig-zagging the page .
24 There were pictures of him fooling on a mono-ski ; triumphant beside a huge fish hauled tail-up by a rope , his arms flung around the necks of two fellows .
25 ‘ If the mistakes had been that obvious there were people around me to tell me where I had gone wrong , but they did n't .
26 told me I was talking to Brian day before yesterday , second line , he says there 's loads of them doing it and it ca n't be cured
27 that is something that 'd happened all of a sudden , of about four throughout the cou , well three at the time throughout the country have suddenly gone like it within about a month or so of each other , and they 've never had any trouble before , but I was talking to Brian and he said that 's a load of cobblers , he says it 's been doing it for a long time and there 's loads of them doing it .
28 And there 's loads of them doing that .
29 There 's loads of us going .
30 The slightest accident on the motorway can become a multiple pile-up because there 's people like him travelling at this speed .
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