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 . |