Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] be [adv] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All able-bodied people go on about how horrible the changing-room experience is — how awful because my bra is dirty , or I 'm too fat or too thin — but disabled girls : how do you even begin to assess your own emotions on entering a changing room with young able-bodied women , most of them slim but all saying , ‘ Oh , I 've got a horrible body ’ , when you 're in a wheelchair , just wanting to try on a pair of trousers ? |
| 2 | A great many assessment systems are competitive in that the extrinsic rewards they offer are in short supply and each student who wants them is asked to demonstrate that he or she is more deserving than others , or others are less deserving . |
| 3 | She had finished her lamb chops , and they were really top-hole , or she was so hungry that anything would have seemed like ambrosia , the food of the gods . |
| 4 | PLAYER : Or we are as far as he is . |
| 5 | wide , or it 's too short or . |
| 6 | By this time Keenan and me are really drunk and I said , ‘ Well , what are we waiting for ? ’ and we go over . |
| 7 | At times when I sensed that the gulf between Jean-Claude and me was so wide as to be almost unbridgeable , I would wonder how it was that our love-making had lost nothing of its fervour . |
| 8 | And it does seem to me that erm the minute you suggest to a Parish Council who has already complained about illegal encampments on roadsides and laybys that there is a good site in their patch , there is an immediate reaction , and I am thoroughly convinced that this reaction is based on a fear that is actually based on ignorance , and that we have to remember that travellers of any description — and I do n't categorise them like Peter does — travellers of any description are human beings . |
| 9 | Probably the most interesting object is the open cluster NGC 2244 , round the star 12 Monocerotis ( 5.8 ) ; it is quite easy to locate with binoculars , and I am rather surprised that it is not included in the Messier list . |
| 10 | If we were to have dialogue , if dialogue were to be opened between us and I am now talking about dialogue and not of debate , then erm it is only erm , I 'm certain that there would be a great deal to , to say to him from us on our part , and I am also sure that he will have a great deal to say . |
| 11 | She said : ‘ We are guilty of failing to provide for what is clearly a statutory service and I am truly appalled that we slipped up so badly and made such a serious mistake . |
| 12 | The manner in which the security forces in Northern Ireland conduct themselves commands the admiration of all , and I am quite certain that the hon. Gentleman did not intend to impute any lack of commitment to them . |
| 13 | I do not believe Jenkins had any such ambition , and I am quite sure that it was not within his nature to take any active steps to intrigue , but Harold Wilson did believe — and conscientiously so — that such intrigues were taking place . |
| 14 | Of course , the Scottish Office runs a number of public information campaigns and I am quite sure that the hon. Gentleman would want us to do that to encourage the improvement of health in various ways . |
| 15 | He poured his mother 's ashes in the place she is now and I am absolutely positive that he knows now she is not coming back . ’ |
| 16 | Lake said : ‘ I was performing well and I am really disappointed as I have also had to withdraw from the doubles . |
| 17 | Some of the most exciting events have occurred in this imaginary place , and I am always disappointed when I visit Wood Green to find that no school , no schoolhouse , no children and , above all , no Miss Watson or Miss Fogerty are to be seen . |
| 18 | I find it a very useful thing , and I am as bad as the next person at chatting merrily away with little thought of time or the expense of it . |
| 19 | And I am almost certain that each one was included in the following year 's NIBA team . |
| 20 | I 've done it now about four times and I am still scared when I do it . |
| 21 | ‘ I owe my mistress everything , and I am very sad because she is old and will not live to see my child growing up . ’ |
| 22 | I 'm very sorry that as soon as I have finished this welcome this morning that I have got to leave you , and I am very sorry that I shall not be able to return this evening for your dinner which I would originally look forward very much to but I trust that you will enjoy the company of the Chairman of our Environmental Services Committee , Councillor Robin Draga , who is attending on my behalf . |
| 23 | I am aware of the difficult times that other theatre companies who actually face in this moment in time and I am very grateful when I and I 've always been grateful to the Harlow Council for the funding of the Council has given to the theatre , has given to the theatre over the years . |
| 24 | I hope you will not be one of those who suffer but the increasing chance makes your Home Risks Insurance more essential than ever and I am very pleased that you have chosen to buy your protection from Legal and General . |
| 25 | ‘ I have witnessed one bombing and I am very pleased that this sort of operation is being carried out , ’ he said . |
| 26 | She is a woman — and I am very pleased that she is one of the women heading the executive agencies . |
| 27 | Yes , you will all know my interest in mental health erm personally because of my son and I am very pleased that under four point five two erm that the extra workers are going in t for support . |
| 28 | I am worried that some people will see this as a mental health trust and I am very disappointed that the emphasis has been placed there and not on services such as the district nurse service which gets scanty coverage within the document . |
| 29 | ‘ I have been excluded from my children for five months and I am very worried that they are becoming isolated from me , ’ said Allen , 57 , afterwards . |
| 30 | I had four good , rewarding years with the company , and I am only sorry that we were unable to reach an agreement . ’ |