Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [be] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before caution could restrain the impulse , he placed his hand over hers where she was resting it on the low wall in front of them . |
| 2 | McLeish carried over a loaded tray , and ate ravenously , noting with interest that Catherine Crane had an equally good appetite , though it was not obvious where she was putting it on that slim frame . |
| 3 | If you get paid to do it or you were doing it for money I could appreciate it . |
| 4 | The ideas might even have come from elsewhere-their tutors , or books , or perhaps a tape/slide presentation — but the student has to embrace them as his or her own if he or she is claiming them to be true . |
| 5 | What we had was basically method things where we were given lots of experimental things we would do in the laboratory , but no real philosophy behind it , no sod of follow through . |
| 6 | Managers often view a job at Shell , where they are given plenty of decisions to make early on in their career , as an alternative to taking an MBA . |
| 7 | Because it 's certainly a statement made out of court because or he 's making it with reference to something else . |
| 8 | He was either out and had n't switched on the answering machine or he was tormenting her by ignoring the telephone . |
| 9 | Check that the bridge fits snugly back into place and that nothing is preventing it from seating properly ; small gaps at either end of the bridge are common , but the glue will fill these . |
| 10 | We get people on the programme singing and dancing so badly it 's painful , but they come back the next week and tell us that everyone 's stopping them in the streets to congratulate them , not slag them off . ’ |
| 11 | Clamping her mouth shut , she stormed after him , suddenly furious that everyone was treating her like a child . |
| 12 | If I was setting an exam paper for summer it would be something I would think about putting in not that I am setting it in case you think I had n't . |
| 13 | ‘ For myself , I can scarce believe it is true — that I am to accompany you on so grand a venture . ’ |
| 14 | He thinks that I am selling her for the night . |
| 15 | ‘ Do n't start that again , Ruth , or I 'll manually wrench your other ankle after I 've spanked your backside for suggesting that I am keeping you from your work . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm aware that I 'm leaving you on your own , ’ she said . |
| 17 | Ca n't you stand the fact that I 'm seeing you as a fallible human being instead of the flawless cardboard cut-out you like to pretend to be ? ’ |
| 18 | The thought pleases me but what they think is irrelevant really ; it 's Marcus that I 'm saving myself for . |
| 19 | It would be nice to imagine the reader , having ingested the reader , having ingested the above , musing , ‘ Oh , I never thought of that ’ — which is , after all , the response elicited by all cultural commentators — but I have no illusions that I 'm teaching anything to the individual or individuals responsible for the original design . |
| 20 | Oh yes , oh there , aye there was , ah but these this lot that I 'm telling you about they were more or less traders . |
| 21 | Bearing in mind that I 'm taking one in a fortnight 's time . |
| 22 | Please understand — it 's not that I 'm doubting you in any way . |
| 23 | ‘ All right , I wo n't , but I hope Zelah has n't got it into her head that I 'm to do something about all this nonsense . ’ |
| 24 | My only worry is that I 'm turning him into New Boy with an unhealthy interest in housework . |
| 25 | It 's not that I 'm saying anything against them . |
| 26 | He had no idea that I was prostituting myself in the cause of Jean-Claude 's success . |
| 27 | To make sure that I was reading it to Bev right , but then you understand it 's a Connie letter do n't you ? |
| 28 | ‘ I played it in the house that I was telling you about . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Never once , during our association , did they guess that I was using them to further my revenge against the Wolfkings . |
| 30 | My family was very very supportive my mum was very happy that I was doing something for myself later on in my life it will help me very much and my husband was very very good . |