Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] be [noun] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And you say there is peace in her wings and wisdom in her heart . ’ |
| 2 | Do you think you say there are difficulties for everyone , are you aware of any way in which erm men make it difficult for you , as a women , in a career sense ? |
| 3 | Pupils and teachers at Cheney say they 're victims of their own rigourous adherence to guidelines for working out the figures . |
| 4 | Let them be wives to you . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I know there are people around who think I 'm an OK teacher , so if I screw up occasionally that 's not going to sink my reputation . |
| 7 | It 's rather late for the press releases on some months later , the press release coming from my group and coming from the Labour group it was a late conversion but not much of a conversion let's face it , the word tokenism springs to mind that 's what I 've written next to the Conservative line there , totally , and I do n't believe in nursery education but they know there are votes in it . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , I know there were criticisms of my form in the internationals against Canada and South Africa . |
| 9 | ‘ I know there were crowds at his funeral , ’ said John . |
| 10 | You know they were sort of they were cheap stalls and and the people who came were the bargain hunters . |
| 11 | It 's , you know , it 's like what 's his Captain Oates was it , going out into the tent in the Antarctic or something , you know it 's sort of I may be gone for a while , you know , in the in the , into the wilderness and never to return so that in , in the British structure er politicians are , their loyalty is central rather than local because their political futures are determined centrally rather than locally . |
| 12 | Erm I mean you know it 's sort of there were certainly there were certainly groups of black tenants and white tenants who mixed , and there were certainly groups of of white tenants who would n't mix with the black tenants and vice versa . |
| 13 | I mean there 's chaps like myself — about twelve stone ten pounds — you were expected to carry bags of barley at sixteen stone four ; and sometimes there was n't a job for you in the hard days when there was a lot of men out of work . |
| 14 | but I mean there 's spares in them anyway |
| 15 | what you 're looking for I mean there were firms like you know |
| 16 | ‘ Not a bit , it 's just that I do n't tell anything , you see , and the Community likes that , they feel I 'm part of them . |
| 17 | I suppose we 're nutters in our own way . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ We believe there are others with him , too , shadows . |
| 19 | Probably because most of us were n't really , well , quite a few of us anyway were n't thinking about sex at that time , so I suppose it was kind of you know , you just started |
| 20 | And my poor mam you know , she used to scrub her hands with erm it was n't Dettol it was Lysol in them days was n't it what they used to use . |
| 21 | Perhaps you feel it 's part of your duty as my host . ’ |
| 22 | I bet there 's loads of them like it in there , these should be tapped in by both leads |
| 23 | But I bet it 's plastic inside it . |
| 24 | Supposedly I , I think there are problems with it working . |
| 25 | I think there are limits to what we can manage here on the premises because it disrupts life a bit . |
| 26 | I think there are ways round it , by being fitter and doing more training through the season . |
| 27 | ‘ I think there 's opium in it , Anne , and if she took it too often it would n't help when she really needed it . |
| 28 | I think there 's value in us talking about it quietly . |
| 29 | To make it worse , they feel guilty about it ; they think they are failures to themselves , traitors to their sex and threats to their babies . |
| 30 | I thought it was Ben yesterday afternoon I dropped Lynsey 's thing in with Ben down there and it 's Jack , I like John , I like to speak to John , so I said John I think it 's Tommy for you , but then |