Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pers pn] be [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Electors may put Labour in office because they hate the Tories or think it 's time for a change or even because they like Labour policies . |
| 2 | Then he saw the broken string of a relic-bag and realised it was Mael-Isu of Deer . |
| 3 | Torrential rain turned the main street through Peterchurch into a fast flowing river — cutting the village off and catching it 's residents by surprise . |
| 4 | Sarti points out that industry , under Fascist rule , ‘ managed to return a degree of autonomy … preserve traditional prerogatives and broaden it 's access to government ’ . |
| 5 | When we got to within quarter of an hour q sorry quarter of a mile of the the actual village itself , and remember it 's quarter of a mile I 'm talking about not ten yards fifteen yards away , we saw a railway embankment in front of us . |
| 6 | They can simulate the flashing effects of video game and TV screens and measure it 's effects on the brain . |
| 7 | I mean it 's about sort of you know in it 's about increasing the erm where we are within our own particular sphere and it 's far too much I mean people it 's interesting that I mean for the , it seems to me an and once again correction but it seems to me the last five years the empowerment thing was really strong and now managers are moving away from it and saying it 's jargon as a means of diluting it . |
| 8 | Westmacott saw tracer at low level in the direction of Luqa and thought it was fire from an enemy aircraft — in fact it was the airfield 's own machine guns engaging the intruder . |
| 9 | Christina noticed her face , and thought it was time for goodnights , before Antonio added something he might really be sorry for . |
| 10 | He gave her the money then , and said it was part of his retainer for the season . ’ |
| 11 | At the end of the season Chapman called me in and said it was time for me to decide one way or the other . |
| 12 | And claims it is Le Vice Anglais , |
| 13 | It was in April of that year that F.W. Hardy , captain of Stockton Cycle Club , got together with a few others to complain that the Barnard Castle Meet was being dominated too much by clubs from Tyneside and suggested it was time for cycling clubs from the south of the region to break away . |
| 14 | But opposing them were associates of a group calling itself ‘ Fight for Freedom ’ , who felt that it would be necessary to deal harshly with Germany at the end of the war . |