Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [pron] [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we 're wrong we lend you a skipper during the day at no charge . |
| 2 | ‘ I am sure it earns you a great deal of money . ’ |
| 3 | This is very embarrassing but last night I got into a bit of a state about not hearing from you for so long and I 'm afraid I sent you a completely mad letter which I … |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm afraid I owe you an apology , Mr. Preston . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm delighted they left you the house , ’ Julia told Margaret . |
| 6 | It was the summer 1989 when I went down to the golf club with a friend and played around with him after that I borrowed his clubs quite regularly and practised eventually mum & Dad chipped in and I bought myself a set of clubs well to be exact I bought myself a bag of three iron and a putter during the next two years I had saved up and built up my set of clubs until I had a half set of irons and 2 woods during that time I had always left my clubs at the golf club to save me taking the clubs to the course every time I played . |
| 7 | Well I 'm conscious we kept you a long time this time this morning and I certainly do appreciate your attendance and presence . |
| 8 | I 'm sure you know what the problem is between yourself and Tom . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ And I 'm sure you found her a very biddable little girl ? ’ |
| 10 | I 'm sure he gives them a lot of his time but if you practise and play that much … hell , you have got to do so many other things as well . ’ |
| 11 | But I 'm sure she sent me a picture . |
| 12 | I 'm sure she helps you a lot with the housework , Marilla . ’ |
| 13 | In the current anti-tycoon climate , there might be those who think it a little tactless to rob your own company 's pension fund to help you take over Bob Maxwell 's newspapers . |
| 14 | I 'm clean I have one every other night I have done this week |
| 15 | All the time Miss B. was rowing me I thought ‘ Dire was the twang of his silver bow ’ out of Iliad Six , and she said ‘ I 'm surprised you think it a smiling matter . ’ |
| 16 | " Your father thought one of the others would have blown the gaff to me — presumably they thought he had — the net result , as always when you leave it to George , being that nobody told me a thing . |
| 17 | STAGE 1 : Being sure we understand what the belief under discussion really is |
| 18 | There were those who found him an oddity and some who were repelled by his right-wing and reactionary views . |
| 19 | As it stands the districts seem to be wanting their cake and eat it in that they would like er a policy restricting development in the open countryside but they do n't want it to come with baggage that is specific which says what the exceptions should be . |
| 20 | It 's clear they come one every so often , as the one from Germany , but when they do come , they 're very worthwhile , it justifies our effort . |
| 21 | Yeah , that 's , that 's when it 's hard she asks you the same thing again and again and a few minutes later , then half an hour later , then , then you think have you listened |
| 22 | He 'd allowed her closer than anyone else , and when his clothes were off and he was tired she read him the way she read the weather or the mountains or the dust , she ran her fingers over his pale , scarred body and she guessed close to the truth . |
| 23 | When I was eighteen she gave me the job of housekeeper in the big cottage she kept at Streatlam to entertain her friends coming to swim in the pool and play tennis . |