Example sentences of "[pers pn] [is] [conj] [pers pn] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ All I ask of you is that you please let me go . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Of course what people find impossible to understand about you is that you genuinely do n't know what effect you have on men . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ The great thing about him is that he always wants the ball and always wants to use it . |
| 4 | I 've only been in Dick 's flat once and the most interesting thing I 've gleaned about him is that he never uses washing-up liquid and he has a rather interesting pile of yellowing press cuttings sitting on a shelf . |
| 5 | Er and then to contrast this you 've got like the feminist view er well it 's a just reconstruct a lot of these ideas instead of saying that women 's talk was diffident they said it was more considerate , and so the idea that quite often A lot of the features that are in this conversation are n't because women want to be deferential to the men they 're talking to , it 's that they actually want to show some consideration to the turn-taking or the conversational style that 's going on . |
| 6 | It 's not that they passively resist you , it 's that they actively sabotage you , because the change is so graphic . |
| 7 | It 's like he just vanished off the face of the Earth . ’ |
| 8 | yeah , that 's the core but it needs fleshing out more and a has agreed that you know it 's if you just stuck to the Editor 's Handbook it 's too narrow and it does need , I mean B A I E in London thus far are being extremely helpful if slightly cautious and I 've to go down and talk to the revamped education committee when the revamped education committee gets around to having a meeting |
| 9 | Very often it 's to try and take advantage of price deals , but also it 's because we now know there perhaps is n't the urgency to buy a holiday in February because we know there 'll be plenty around still in June or July . |
| 10 | It 's not that the TV folk like to be topical , it 's because they rarely have the nous to come up with anything original . |
| 11 | It 's because they never miss a food or drink trick . |
| 12 | Er , I 'm a little bit out of touch , so , i if I sound hesitant it 's because I simply do n't know how much debate has been taking place , and how , systematised the relationships are going to be in the future . |
| 13 | It 's because I never had no shoes till I was three . |
| 14 | It 's because I never see anyone else . |
| 15 | That 's right , I mean why di why have we got the structure of agriculture as we have , you know why why do we still have an atomistical industry right , it 's not just a , a freak of nature , there are economic laws , erm , and opinion that s , that structure the industry and it 's because you just do n't get economies of scale staying in agriculture . |
| 16 | It 's because you just got here . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , if you must know , I think it 's because he just does n't like the idea of me leaving him . |
| 18 | Anyone familiar with five- and six-year-olds would be puzzled to learn that they do not ask questions when they do not understand something : if five-year-olds have a failing it is that they never stop asking questions ! |
| 19 | The notion of an avant-garde sensibility here functions simply as the ‘ other ’ of existing television ( just as much of the most interesting experimental video refunctions existing television as its other ) , a point outside the discourse of actually existing television from which we can argue about what it is that we actually want . |
| 20 | Whatever it 's called , though , one of the most gloomy facts about it is that it now spends more on weapons than on health and education put together |
| 21 | If there has been a criticism , it is that he often lured artists into singing roles beyond their immediate range or capacity . |
| 22 | That talent was presumably the main reason for his appointment , and that 's only right and proper because if there 's one thing England can learn from Bob Dwyer , it is that you sometimes have to be prepared to let a young side lose in the short-term to gain in the long-term . |
| 23 | I mean it is wrong and I do n't think people realize just how wrong it is until they really stop and think about it . |
| 24 | Every election , some people discover that they are unregistered , and in most cases it is because they either forgot to fill in the form , or they moved in too late in the year to qualify . |
| 25 | In part it is because they too have unknowingly taken in the prevailing stereotypes . |
| 26 | It is because we internally use our visual information and our sound information in different ways and for different purposes that the sensations of seeing and hearing are so different . |
| 27 | It is because we internally use our visual information and our sound information in different ways and for different purposes that the sensations of seeing and hearing are so different . |
| 28 | It may seem that if we succeed in adapting our values to such disturbances instead of losing them altogether , it is because we still retain some vestige of a Christian and liberal moral tradition a memory of ‘ Do unto others … ’ at the roots of social habit , which saves us from the collapse into competing egoisms into which deepening conflicts are perpetually driving us . |
| 29 | It is not that the Sergeant really objects to the constable having a legitimate excuse for being late , but it is because he too has to satisfy his superior officers that his omission to visit all the constables regularly is due to efficient Police duty . |
| 30 | For me , it is because I only have half of that . |