Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] be [noun] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pupils and teachers at Cheney say they 're victims of their own rigourous adherence to guidelines for working out the figures . |
| 2 | Let them be wives to you . |
| 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 | You know they were sort of they were cheap stalls and and the people who came were the bargain hunters . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | I suppose we 're nutters in our own way . ’ |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Perhaps you feel it 's part of your duty as my host . ’ |
| 12 | But I bet it 's plastic inside it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | ‘ … into the last furlong , and the Guppy looks beaten , Breakdancer takes up the running with Prince Charming on the stand side — it looks to be between these two — but now Shine On 's absolutely flying on the outside , a terrific challenge , the three locked together , Breakdancer and Shine On stride for stride , at the line it 's very close but I think it 's shine On who gets it on the nod . |
| 16 | I doubt whether this is done deliberately , but I think it 's part of everybody 's perception of science in schools that girls do biology and boys do chemistry and physics , and I suppose this is bound to have its affect on people 's choices , but I personally , and I think most of my colleagues would agree with me on this , see no reason to suppose that girls should be any less good at chemistry and physics than boys . |
| 17 | I think it 's part of our nature . |
| 18 | And now I think it 's time for you to move in . ’ |
| 19 | Then her breath caught as he turned , unexpectedly , to look at her , inviting her with one of his soft , easy smiles , ‘ I think it 's time for my walk along the beach before bedtime . |
| 20 | They can also be rated in kilowatts and on mopeds cos the regulation allow sort of what mopeds sixteen year olds can ride and I think it 's sort of something like seventy kilowatts or ninety kilowatts , it might be ninety . |
| 21 | In the uncomfortable interview he said : ‘ I think it is part of my job to stir controversy , as long as it is not party political controversy . |
| 22 | ‘ I think it was agony for her often , the balance between No 1 and No 2 . |
| 23 | I admit I was party to their tricks for a while but in Brittany the Luciferi began to remove , through assassination or spurious trials , any who opposed the French crown . |