Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [noun] [prep] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , I 'm sort of I think he confused himself as well as confusing me slightly |
| 2 | once she 's sort of you know |
| 3 | Well it was the same no distinction at all in that sense , but er you know we were sort of they had more serious things to talk about than I wan er you know I knew the cook , er couple of o other apprentices from the carpenters shop we used to go into the main th there was no-one to keep an eye on us in the in the mess-room you see , no-one to tell us . |
| 4 | that was what we were sort of we gathered in |
| 5 | And they 're nieces from they says , Uncle Tom we hear that you 're going er er back to Northern Ire or to Ireland . |
| 6 | Yeah , yeah , more immediately , but I mean when they 're sort of it has |
| 7 | Yeah well I du n no I 'm dreading the Easter holidays cos I 've got like erm we 're probably gon na have about two hundred pieces of coursework to mark over Easter then there 's , and they 're sort of you know projecty things and things like that erm and then there 's first week next term there 's like all these second year social , which is well over a hundred of them plus about forty final year projects will come in , plus about I 'm hoping it 'll only be twenty things from Loughborough but it might be as many as , as fifty if the other person gives me all their marking er as they have , they 've given some indication that they will |
| 8 | Like in gold , they 're sort of I mean they 're not real gold , gold plated on the outside . |
| 9 | At first it were good because it were incentive for her to keep going because she 'd , you know , paid so much but toward the end , she said , it were getting ridiculous . |
| 10 | So it 's part of you know , part of the the penalty if you like , of living in the flats . |
| 11 | Well , tell him it 's kind of him to agree to let me stay here , but I 'm turning down his invitation . ’ |
| 12 | whether it 's kind of him to keep her there |
| 13 | ‘ It 's kind of you to say so . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's kind of you to say so . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's kind of you to make me so welcome , ’ she said , dazzling him with a very personal smile . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's kind of you to help when you 've got your own practice to run . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's kind of you to ring , Miss Rose . ’ |
| 18 | Yeah , because it 's money for you to spend |
| 19 | One young woman who talks lovingly about her tears , told me how her father used to say , ‘ It 's Fred inside you watering the iris in his window boxes ’ . |
| 20 | The 26-year-old is guarded about his physical and mental fatigue , but he says pointedly : ‘ It 's time for me to relax . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It 's time for me to go . |
| 22 | ‘ Nevertheless , she declares she 's taking over as hostess — so obviously it 's time for me to leave . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Now that I 've eaten and drunk my fill it 's time for me to beat away , ’ he said after about an hour . |
| 24 | Yes , well probably , it 's time for me to try and change his mind . |
| 25 | Or say ‘ It 's time for me to run along — |
| 26 | I 've got to go now as it 's time for me to get my new dresses fitted . |
| 27 | They look out of the windows when it 's time for me to come home . |
| 28 | It 's time for him to match his maturity with his golf and realise he 's not going to win every time . |
| 29 | And now I think it 's time for you to move in . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ It 's time for you to take breakfast to the labourer at the kiln ! ’ |