Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] be [art] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any case , Payne and Prudential 's Rodney Dennis both say they want brokers ' research , and dealing through them is the way they get it . |
| 2 | You may think that thick and thin Ethernet differ in size , but the main difference between them is the ranges they can cover : a thick Ethernet cable can be 500m long , whereas its skinny relative can only manage 150m . |
| 3 | Hung between them was a sign which read : ‘ Suicide made easy — ride on these tramlines ’ . |
| 4 | The only thing that ruined the game for me was the time it took to load each room . |
| 5 | So that is a possi I was just wondering which one it was cos I say I know some of them are a bit you know |
| 6 | The thing that delighted both of them was the time they had achieved — 54 minutes to complete 10 miles of very tricky going . |
| 7 | One of them was an architect who , even at the age of sixty , was very handsome and likeable , and I fell in love with him . |
| 8 | Sitting in front of you is a gentleman who was paying what , about a hundred pound a week sir ? |
| 9 | ‘ I figure Simon said it because he was in love with you and he hoped that by pretending the two of you were a couple he might give fate a nudge and make it happen . ’ |
| 10 | On the desk in front of her was the envelope which had arrived that morning . |
| 11 | In recognition of it being a charity which had acted in the public interest , the judge awarded only three-quarters of the costs , estimated at £50,000 , against the conservation group , which is considering an appeal . |
| 12 | History is taught as if the industrial revolution , the most significant event since the development of agriculture , just happened , simply by the outworking of blind economic forces ; and as if the only people to be consciously aware of it were the aesthetes who reacted against its artifacts , or who , like Karl Marx , sought to analyse those forces and to predict their course . |
| 13 | I think er she said some of it was a bit you know slow and dragging for them |
| 14 | Near him was a door which presumably led to a room beyond . |
| 15 | Behind him was a broom which could have been used to batter him . |
| 16 | Rachel fidgets round the room like it 's a hotel we got to leave by ten . |
| 17 | Yes , but it seems like it 's the mothers who are directing the little boys to think big and directing the little girls to think small . |
| 18 | We are all standing there with our hands on that table like it was a boat we were trying to launch in the river , so little Darius at the head looks up at us both and asks , ‘ Are you two gon na have this kiss or not ? ’ |
| 19 | Speaking about children , Fr Cunningham 's face lit up and beaming smile crossed his face ; being with them is a passion which has remained with him since his days as a teacher , and later a headmaster . |
| 20 | Although experimental methods provide a highly economical and efficient method of investigating a speaker 's responses to particular items of structure , the main difficulty associated with them is the mismatch which sociolinguists have consistently found between what speakers claim when they are directly questioned , and what they actually do , as evidenced by their linguistic behaviour in naturally occurring conversation . |
| 21 | With them was the letter he had not opened . |
| 22 | with them being the squares you 'd lose a hell of a lot coming down the stairs |
| 23 | ‘ Nothing with you is the way it looks — so you would have me believe , ’ observed Marc with a sardonic downward glance . |
| 24 | Above him is a clock which stopped 50 years ago and has not been wound since . |
| 25 | So erm the funeral , with it being the weekend it wo n't be till next , next week the funeral . |
| 26 | Get on with it and let us back in It is a drill I suppose , is it ? |
| 27 | What was disturbing about him was the impression he gave one of the potential of undercover intimidation , difficult to pin down and therefore impossible to counter . |
| 28 | What matters for him is the conflict which arises from their combination . |
| 29 | Now , if one parent has a mutant , has a mutation , supposing I , let's go back to me being a mutant which I was rather enjoying , erm , I 'm the mutant with a gene which increases my reproductive success by one hundred percent . |
| 30 | Once , it was a pop cliche that the records which mattered most to you were the ones which marked your earliest sexual encounters or which signposted key events in your adolescence . |