Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [pron] be [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , in my case it 's usually to get information out of people , ’ he said . |
| 2 | I sent back a tirade of bitter invective , written during a long , lonely evening when Richard was dining in college : did she think that because I had given up working for my degree I was necessarily isolated from intelligent thought ? |
| 3 | I have an extremely voracious moth in my wardrobe which is gradually devouring all my clothes ! |
| 4 | I hope that it is not too perfunctory a way of dealing with this interesting point to say that in my opinion it is comprehensively answered by the judgments in Bishopsgate Investment Management Ltd. v. Maxwell [ 1992 ] 2 W.L.R. 991 which Mr. Rawley , for the defendants , brought to your Lordships ' attention . |
| 5 | 's quality meat , my goodness they 're still going strong . |
| 6 | ‘ When Thatcher was on the pot , it is my belief she was peremptorily required by her mother and grandmother to do her duty , ’ writes Abse , and proceeds to build a gigantic edifice on the assumption : ‘ A mother who is peremptory when the child wants satisfaction at the breast , is the same severe mother who denies her child the pride in her own first creation , her faeces , ’ he explains . |
| 7 | I think that our description of what he was in effect saying , my Lord we were simply pointing out |
| 8 | I ca n't help but think , chairman , in my career I was never given a bottle of whisky to help with the |
| 9 | At this time of my life I was eagerly reading books of travel and adventure such as Luigi Barzini 's Peking to Paris by Motor Car , but my favourite writer was Salgari , who was a sort of Italian Jules Verne . |
| 10 | ‘ Looking at the gravity and harshness of my surroundings I was temporarily dazzled in the glare of sunlight . |
| 11 | As I closed my door she was still sitting there , wide awake , but dreaming of Chinooks . |
| 12 | In my youth I was constantly pursued by fishkeeping groupers . |
| 13 | This is a similar fallacy to that of those in my profession who are constantly aspiring to bring everybody up to the average . |
| 14 | I do n't remember him doing much digging in the garden but in my memory he is always mowing the lawn and fussing over a particular type of grass which evaded the blades and sprang back upright after the mower had passed over it . |
| 15 | Well that 's something that a as a teacher we 're erm in my school we 're constantly saying t to the pupils I mean if they ha they have a they have a certain responsibility t to tidy up after them and t to try and keep their work area tidy that 's not the same as er as cleaning at the end of the day as sweeping up all all the dust and and so on . |
| 16 | Before taking my temperature I was neither allowed to breathe through my mouth for ten minutes nor to take food or drink for half an hour . |
| 17 | With the gun under my arm I was all set for the evening . |
| 18 | If they were not , in my view they were wrongly decided and they should not influence your Lordships ' decision . |
| 19 | It attributes the speedy exit to having its reorganisation plan in order and the cooperation of its creditors who are apparently agreed on a collections moratorium . |
| 20 | However , among their ranks it is universally believed that their leader — Rabbi Menachem Schneerson — will fulfil the Messianic prophecy . |
| 21 | In both Britain and the US we have the ability to produce all we need , but if our leaders do not have the political balls to plan Japan by their rules we are both destined for economic annihilation . |
| 22 | If negotiations are successful , the new office will be slightly closer to their warehouse which is also used as a design studio . |
| 23 | In her mind she was already formulating a plan of action … |
| 24 | Even when she closed her eyes they were still daggered by its scintillations . |
| 25 | The terrorists know that by hitting commercial buildings and their insurers they are also hitting at a British Government faced with potentially huge underwriting costs even as it is desperate to find ways of bringing down the public sector borrowing requirement . |
| 26 | Training to be a teacher and with a wisdom that belied her years , she explained that it was her half-brother who was now living in Mainz and had suggested that Erich ( the Dusseldorfer ) travel down to Tonga to look for a wife . |
| 27 | I myself had never witnessed a stoning , but Omar had done so on three occasions and had taken great delight in describing to us the fate that awaited weak women who did not carefully guard their honour which was so prized by their men . |
| 28 | Had the besweatered Pakistanis held their catches there is no knowing to what depths of despair England might have sunk that evening . |
| 29 | One becomes a member of a caste by being born into one of its lineages which are always transmitted from male to male . |
| 30 | On her return she was promptly plunged back into teaching by Caroline Little , and at present she is working as Caroline 's assistant in her Classes for the Elderly . |