Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [conj] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where has tha' been since I saw thee ? |
| 2 | Where has tha' been since I saw thee ? |
| 3 | The other advantages of a freezer are that it enables you to store food that can be brought out in an emergency when you have unexpected guests , or to store certain foods in bulk , such as bread , to save you from frequent trips to the shops . |
| 4 | My recommendation is that we scrap them for the ten year decade of evangelism as a trial period and then think again in AD 2000 ! |
| 5 | The irony is that what gave me and other lesbians the |
| 6 | ‘ The greatest irony is that I thought he could help me in my research on rape , ’ she says . |
| 7 | I mean I one of the things that I 've always sort of had in mind is that we put it down in the reception area . |
| 8 | and the biggest tragedy is that I know you know what you want to say |
| 9 | The appeal of this closely-worked new study is that it presents him as a comprehensive human being . |
| 10 | But of course profit 's one thing , and income 's another thing , and I think the problem with most er forms of income type investment is that we spend it , it 's not a problem it 's just , it just happens . |
| 11 | ‘ When I told him , his reply was that he thought I had liked going there , and he burst out with , ‘ Thank goodness you told me . |
| 12 | Why else should I still be yearning after a man whom I knew to be a murderer while shrinking from the innocent Syl whose only crime was that I found him unattractive ? |
| 13 | I think the idea is that Sun is that they see it as somebody 's gone poof poof want to be to write quickly and they would argue that a Sun reader has a sharp attention span . |
| 14 | And at each instant of its happening , its bitter-sweet wonder is that you know it ca n't last . |
| 15 | So a lot of , a lot of the problems with some of the areas of the work is because you do it so infrequent it 's not that you ca n't do it , it 's that you feel |
| 16 | Erm , my proposal is that you keep them separately . |
| 17 | My Lords , I , I do realise and I have to be satisfied with that erm and I shall do my best , but if I could just make my absolutely clear , simple proposition that I was seeking to perform is that if you are seeking to amend the law i i it ought to be possible for those who are seeking to understand the Government 's intentions to find out relatively easily what the law is and I suggest it 's very far from easy and even if you get to it , it 's not at all easy to understand . |
| 18 | I mean , maybe what I 'm hearing from the committee is that we take it back and look at the criteria and the ground rules . |
| 19 | What is the issue is that you expected me to stay and I did n't . |
| 20 | The only question is whether we do it now or lose out altogether by supposing we can do it later . |
| 21 | Having learnt to cope happily on our own , the likelihood is that we find we are not alone after all . |
| 22 | Her biggest regret was that she found it necessary to keep its existence from David . |
| 23 | I think that the real reason that I wanted to do Total recall was that I knew it might make me famous which then might help me get better parts . |
| 24 | The other factor against a return was that I reckoned it only a matter of time before they stopped being DINKS ( double income , no kids ) and became WHANnies ( ‘ We have a Nanny ’ ) . |
| 25 | And I fancy that erm a large part of his animus against latterday Oxford philosophy was that he suspected it of covert idealism , erm a preoccupation simply with the knowing mind , insufficient attention to the facts of the world as presented by science . |
| 26 | The first paragraph of your essay tells your reader what your essay will be about : what the main focus is and what question(s) you are going to answer . |
| 27 | A worrying thing at the moment is as I said we 're in close contact with is that the Malaysian Government is sending representatives over to visit the European Community Ministers in May , to try and say that there 's absolutely nothing wrong with what 's going on in their country with the logging , and they 're saying that people like Friends of the Earth are calling for a ban on timber , not because they care about sustained yield , but because we want to be able to sell our own wood , and this is to depress their trade . |
| 28 | And I 'm confident that I know that one reason why you are so upset at this moment is because you realize you made such an awful fool of yourself , have n't you ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Doc says the best bet , given the mark on her cheek is that someone slapped her one and she fell back . |
| 30 | And the only way these can make a difference is if he shares them , tests them out , listens to other ideas and looks for ways to put them into practice . |