Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [coord] [pers pn] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the severe winter of 1946–7 there were only eight cows and five bulls in the herd , but there are now perhaps 50 animals altogether and they are owned and protected by the Chillingham Wild Cattle Association , a registered charity which bought the herd on the death of the eighth Earl in 1972 . |
| 2 | The wind whipped the words away and they were lost in the gale but someone must have heard the banging . |
| 3 | He 's going to build shops here and we 're going to help him . ’ |
| 4 | I bought it a few months ago and I was assured they were waterproof . ’ |
| 5 | And some people , you know they , they managed to , you know they did n't have their husbands there and they were going home and they were wonderfully relieved and for others obviously it was , you know there is still a lot of emotion . |
| 6 | ‘ I was doing a lay-out of a woman in a mink coat and I 'm trying to get the flesh tones right and I 'm asking myself : hey , how is it every time I do this it comes out wrong ? |
| 7 | Then she was blowing up like a bubble herself and getting fatter and fatter and more and more bulbous till she filled the whole sky and I knew that if she burst the explosion would drown me in mud too , and I could smell the slurry in my nostrils already and it was getting up my nose and I could n't breathe and … |
| 8 | Now then will you go back to your own proper seats now and I 'm going to give you a number . |
| 9 | Cos I used this look , I said that erm I 'd re I had represented his father in an accident case some years before and I was acquainted with the family in a casual way , and I said this may suggest , because he was saying you can make up and you can , this is a bit when you can use your imagination , and I said this may suggest that his father , you know he 'd like , because it the way he says that , I 'd represented his father , I was acquainted , you know maybe that he knows he 's used to that kind of erm behaviour from the family , you know , and he knows what Eddie 's like his fa I do n't know I might be completely wrong but I used my imagination there . |
| 10 | ‘ The flats were flooded two and a half years ago and we were promised that it would never happen again . ’ |
| 11 | Erm anonymous , my son joined the paras five years ago and he was bullied , and another anonymous person from Rugby , my two children were in the army and though they were n't bullied they did see horrific things happening to other lads . |
| 12 | I was actually mugged on holiday er then years ago and I was held up with a gun and it was the most horrendous feeling |
| 13 | My father died erm sixteen years ago and I was put on to tranquillizers , up until that point I had never needed a drug in my life , and I was put onto tranquillizers and I had a terrible experience ! |
| 14 | Her husband died about five years ago and she 's put all her emotional energy into her job . |
| 15 | His invention of photogenic drawing dated back four years earlier but he was spurred to bring it to the attention of the scientific world by the announcement by the Frenchman Daguerre of his revolutionary invention , the Daguerreotype . |
| 16 | We think that the UK is bullish in the years ahead and we are backing our judgement with further investment proposals . ’ |
| 17 | A few minutes later and I was getting into the rescue ambulance for a short ride to the Belford Hospital in Fort William . |
| 18 | You are taking rights away and you are giving them no consultation at all . |
| 19 | ‘ We 've got a few injury problems now but I 'm hoping they 'll iron themselves out . |
| 20 | Newcastle are 12 points clear in the First Division and Keegan added : ‘ There have been massive changes here and we 're beginning to reap the rewards already . |
| 21 | I 'm sure you 've heard it thousands of times before but I am fed up with the way I look . |
| 22 | ‘ But I always watch chimps alone and it 's spoilt Gombe for me . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I tried agonizingly to work out the details privately but I was left with no alternative . ’ |
| 24 | I done that numerous times today but I 'm trying to do it right by keeping it going all the time when I 'm likely to be in conversation , so there are occasional blank spaces on the tapes . |
| 25 | ‘ It was planned ages ago and it was going to be a big do , but I do n't know what will happen now . ’ |
| 26 | It depends what I feel like playing , because I 've got into the blues lately and I 'm learning all these licks I should have learned ten , fifteen years ago ! |
| 27 | I 've got into the blues lately and I 'm learning all these licks I should have learned ten , fifteen years ago ! |
| 28 | Fleet operators appear to have felt that the raids had not had much effect on operations there and it was rumoured that the National Iranian Oil Company ( NIOC ) was managing to improvise , using storage tanks on the mainland . |
| 29 | My posting came through and I was posted to Swordstone this side of Norwich , so I was still quids in , I could get home once a week , twenty four hour pass and then erm after a while erm , having served at Regiment , I was posted up to , as the Sergeant Artillery Clerk with the Brigade , an ack-ack brigade up at Coventry , just outside Coventry and then of course the A T S were coming in , were coming in in quite large numbers then and they were replacing male personnel and then I was posted abroad and I went to Egypt where I was there again , fortunate enough , I suppose , to go into the echelon , the second echelon which was the Records Office of all the forces or the armoured personnel in the Middle East and I worked there until I was actually demobbed from there but I was out in Egypt there for two , just over two years , came back to Northampton where I was finally demobbed and allowed to come home and as I said I came home one week and I was back at work the next . |
| 30 | Despite the strong reception for the Prolinea machines , Compaq does not believe it is out of the woods yet and it is cutting 1,000 employees or 10% from its worldwide workforce over the next few months , with 700 to go this month , including 100 in Scotland . |