Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] be [adv] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feeling fury begin to soar in her again , she determinedly stayed where she was when she heard sounds that indicated that both men were leaving . |
| 2 | Koppes comments on the launch of the Russian Sputnik : ‘ JPL personnel could remember years later where they were when they heard the news , what they first thought , and what they did . ’ |
| 3 | Or do you wan na lose the ground missiles again or they 're actually they do n't go very fast they 've got warheads on them . |
| 4 | This permanently uncompresses a hidden or system file that is unmovable under normal usage ( like Compaq 's HIBRN8.DAT , which is produced when the Compaq LTE goes into sleep mode , to restore the machine to life exactly where it was when it shut down ) . |
| 5 | And although I 'm not I enjoyed the piping , I enjoyed But I was not at peace I says I says , you 've even ruined me for this . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , now that I am here it looks like I shall stay until things quieten down . |
| 7 | It 's just that I 'm all he has . |
| 8 | So I said no , so I 'd better get on with my cooking , so she said oh she said done it on pur colour co-ordinated , I 'm a bit more colour co-ordinated than that I was yesterday I had a |
| 9 | and about fifteen of the erm eight , eight , five troop chasing after me , it was like our sister troop yeah , we were , there was three troops in our squadron , eight , eight , five , eight , eight , six and eighty , eighty , seven and then there was three squadrons and a regiments , there was nine troops there , so like , if it , basically it was your troop and nobody else , but then it was your squadron and , and anybody else and then the few times that I , on regiment it was your regiment and nobody else , like , we could touch you cos your our regiment but if you try and touch us , you can get fucking hell , but it nearly always come down to the troops , and the thing is eight , eight , six , only had , the first year that I was there we 'd only had about thirty people , fourth year there had I opposed like fifty , sixty and seventy , second year we were there we had about forty- five opposed to like sixty , seventy , eighty , and the third year there we had about fifty opposed like fucking seventy , eighty and ninety in a , in a troop , so we were always well out numbered and we were by far the most outrageous |
| 10 | I know people imagined I was much older than I was when they saw the first film because some newspapers referred to me as ‘ the Old Lady of the Dales ’ . |
| 11 | I find I leave these places even more frustrated than I was when I arrived . ’ |
| 12 | Although you 're not we do n't ask for education but your background 's not exactly in academic area . |
| 13 | But now that she was here she supposed she 'd better do her best , although obviously it was not a matter to be rushed . |
| 14 | She does seem to be heavier than she was when she lived at home , and she has dyed her hair blonde recently . |
| 15 | Younger than you were when you volunteered for Spain . |
| 16 | 'Cos once she 's up she opens the porch door and leaves it open . |
| 17 | Viewed from the standards of the outside world , the main trends in human life are perhaps shown up rather more clearly here : selfishness , courage , the desire for escape , self-fulfilment etc ’ but then once you 're here you do n't think about the standards of the outside world very much . ’ |
| 18 | But once you 're up you look see then al you 're alright . |
| 19 | And there was n't the defence the water defences , tide defences on the west shore then that there is now you know . |
| 20 | And er he tells me he says , Well we night that we were going to do it , meeting them from work it w it was getting dark of course , December , he said that there was only me turned up . |
| 21 | Evidence shows that expected productivity in unit labour costs of British industry are more competitive now than they were when we entered the ERM . |
| 22 | It is true that primary schools are providing a better educational service ( with the possible exceptions of spelling and mental arithmetic ) than they were when I began teaching in 1948 . |
| 23 | And an hour or two later I shall leave them feeling considerably older and wiser than they were when I started . |
| 24 | For example with education , it 'll be a terrible thing for education if the middle classes continue to contract out in the way that they are so we have a divorced system of independent education quite separate from the state system . |
| 25 | Er and that they are so he asked Mrs to do the reading which she , came out it 's , , but so er there we are ! |
| 26 | That they were near he had no doubt , for here and there he saw remnant nests and one evening , from out of some bleak crags , three hooded crows flew up at him , black , grey , sinister . |
| 27 | If you want to make a fight of it I should warn you that they were not his to give . |
| 28 | From childhood he had feared that his most intimate thoughts and desires were different from those of others and when his reading showed him that they were not he felt that his grip on life had been strengthened , his confidence reinforced . |
| 29 | noticing that they were n't they get , I suppose you get to know who has what and that they thought |
| 30 | Erm I 'm not sure what time yet but erm it 's more likely to be sort of just before lunch or just sort of or maybe just after lunch or round four o'clock I try to keep the younger ones earlier so they 're not you know it 's not |