Example sentences of "[be] [adv prt] [coord] [pron] [be] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Ever since then , being thin has been in and it 's still here today .
2 Ive been off and I am presently ploughing through 80 odd messages .
3 They first appeared on the television in the mid 60s. 25 years on , The Thunderbirds are back and they 're more popular than ever .
4 It 's wonderful to be back but it 's also very sad because a lot of people are still in Iraq and Kuwait and they need to be got out .
5 The streetlights were on and I was almost there .
6 no but I 'm not used to all the boys like being around and they 're really manipulative , you know , and they really , they 're really cunning and clever , you know ?
7 Well you either put one bar on or the lot is on or it 's very dim like this is low and you ca n't see it at all .
8 Ther athletes both say they 're glad the swimming is over and it 's now down hill all the way to the end
9 When the pedal 's off and it 's just the clean channel there is no output whatsoever .
10 Time is up and I 'm all strung up and we 're too
11 Well if th if there 's somebody whose listening in the Derby area who can help us with a street lamp that 's out and it 's rather important that it get put on , and it 's been out for six weeks now
12 I 'm going back to the erm controversial emotive subject of atomic power I suppose , as you said earlier , the the atomic bomb and erm I suppose the most worrying thing for er for everybody was when erm the Cuba crisis was on and everybody was just waiting for these mushrooms to appear over London because we all thought we were gon na be bombed at any time but er obviously the other thing that sort of worries people is other things that you said about Chernobyl and Three Mile Island but on the other side , obviously the erm the low cost of atomic power must be the advantage for the future .
13 She must n't let her out of her sight , not until Tommaso 's leave was over and he was safely back in Caserta .
14 Later , when like a waking nightmare , the business was over and he was once again sitting in the cab , Mr Beecham leant towards him and said , ‘ If you will excuse us we will be returning straight to Newcastle , ’ and paused before adding , ‘ Sir Joseph , ’ which remark drew the young man 's attention to him .
15 When the ten minutes was up and there was still no sign of Hugh the verderers began to get restive .
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