Example sentences of "[pron] be [noun] [prep] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's my son , I 'm sort of playing it by ear , I 'm not quite sure what I 'm doing oh dear me not quite sure at all |
| 2 | can I just just pursue that you said said so the if you embarked on another scenario , and you said that the only way in which extra over , that beyond the figure proposed by the County Council , would be by way of a new settlement , I 'm sort of transgressing my own ground rules here , I know that Ryedale has expressed support for the principle of a new settlement , are you saying that you would be looking for a new settlement , possibly in Ryedale ? |
| 3 | Yeah the clock , the clock 's there I always get groups that say where 's the clock cos they ca n't sort of see where it is and I 'm sort of saying it 's the angle tell the time . |
| 4 | ‘ Anyway , ’ said Kevin slowly , ‘ I was thinkin of emigratin' myself . ’ |
| 5 | I was sort of telling you that bit . |
| 6 | It was not a conscious avoidance of the Debtors Prison but the more positive , good-humoured attitude which was part of Making Your Bed and Lying On It . |
| 7 | When you when you come up here and do the driving you find that erm because people are are just not available at the time and erm y I 'm here just for a and Stan only here for a a limited period , and er you 're sort of trying they 're downstairs they 're trying to get people off the trucks when they come in or whatever the case may be to go out and do an assessment run , and it 's not always possible . |
| 8 | You 're sort of getting it a bit more |
| 9 | er in , in that you , you are , you , you 're sort of fixing your taxes and then you 're allowing , anybody who increases their output will keep , will benefit from that . |
| 10 | So that 's great but we started off with three there and we should have started off with E. So through imme a this this is intensely repetitive so that you can you 're building it up , you 're sort of doing it with numbers and then you 're doing it more |
| 11 | and other various tosspots who were sort of giving her pats on the back and they were making all sorts of slurping noises about her , were n't they ? erm salivating |
| 12 | Well , she 'd lost that much weight , now she 's very conscious from then on , you know , she 's sort of kept her weight down , but her daughter also had a job at our place and she was gross , I mean , Olive and Ann had both been huge women , but , but this daughter , and she was only about five feet tall and er , I do n't know what her weight was but it was one of those |
| 13 | You know , I mean , er , that is why it 's all coming out in the books , that 's why the , all these men , she 's sort of saying I 'll get my own back now , you know ! |
| 14 | Erm , yeah Mrs she sort of has the power over level erm if she she sort of , it 's like she 's sort of keeping her on this level in the same household as her |
| 15 | And that it did n't feel it when she was sort of combing it , but now I 'm actually doing that I can feel it short . |
| 16 | We 're just saying oh well we 'll see how it goes and we 're sort of putting it down whereas I suppose we should hit them straight away . |
| 17 | And now we 're sort of letting it run how a business would . |
| 18 | There are advantages in having one set of meetings starting just after school ends and the other set later on another evening so that shift workers have an opportunity to attend . |
| 19 | There are advantages in having it on your child 's birthday rather than the nearest weekend , in that it is a special day and it is fitting to have it as a day of celebration . |
| 20 | It can be fairly clear when looking for something physical , but in trying to find earth energies there are difficulties in determining what comes from the individual and what from the site . |
| 21 | Not least there are hints on organising your new crew . |
| 22 | But there are reasons for thinking his pleas to the Bosnian Serbs to accept the peace plan were sincere . |
| 23 | I strongly believe that parents should be properly informed about the policies and practices of their schools ; that they should have the means regularly to voice their opinions and should indeed be represented on the governing bodies of schools , yet I believe too that there are dangers in allotting them too many constitutional powers . |
| 24 | However , there are dangers in examining their drug spending patterns in isolation , particularly where the express aim of WFP is ‘ to apply downward pressure on drug expenditure ’ , without assessing the other factors and whether such constraints really do deliver better VFM . |
| 25 | Only proselytes urge that we should all desist from it entirely ; and there are exceptions among even them . |
| 26 | Although there are aspects of mugging which are continuous , permanent , old-fashioned , the new word is describing a typically new thing . |
| 27 | Then , ‘ some clients are n't always as good as they might be : they do n't like being distracted from other parts of their businesses and , when solicitors need information and documents , there are delays in locating them ’ . |
| 28 | There are ways of paying your fuel bills which make budgeting a lot easier . |
| 29 | There are ways of abasing oneself — though Prior Robert would perhaps have managed them with better grace had things gone otherwise ! — as a means of exalting oneself . |
| 30 | The cluster I found particularly er important and so like yourself the Aldershot method and structured thought patterns er the cluster was important er because as you say when people have got nerves they need to get some basic guidelines for overcoming the problem er we all tend to put our hands in our pockets and stand rooted to the spot and all the rest of it but there are ways of overcoming it , it 's just a matter of practice erm the Aldershot method is er obviously a very effective method erm if you get into the habit of doing it in threes er erm you see every day you use the news at ten news at ten analogy obviously |