Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One thing that doing the talk show has taught me is that people hear what they expect to hear . |
| 2 | ‘ One thing these workless weeks in Venice have taught me is that I need my profession . |
| 3 | The Americans tried to do it in Panama , what disgusts me is that these are the pictures that sold , the ones done when there was no more opposition . |
| 4 | No I tell you why I chucked them is because they 're a better make are n't they , K P ? |
| 5 | But one incident that amused me was that I was booked for a coffee commercial and the producer phoned me up the night before the session to let me know the track we were doing , because he said he wanted to get it as close to the original as he possibly could . |
| 6 | The first thing I said to the commissioning editors when I met them is that I would not commission one programme . |
| 7 | The problem with using them is that they may produce a self-fulfilling prophecy . |
| 8 | ‘ What angers me is that they were on a government controlled game reserve and planned it carefully . |
| 9 | ‘ However , what upsets me is that I have heard unconfirmed rumours that some of the riders were threatening to pull out if I were put in the third row of the grid as was at first planned . |
| 10 | What impresses me is that when the causes of this ancient conflict have been forgotten , except by those who have made a study of it , this monument remains , crudely chiselled and doubtless seldom visited , testament to three modest souls who died for what they believed in and who are otherwise lost to history . |
| 11 | What astonishes me is that the whole subject of injury from radiation seems to have been treated at the time with a casualness that approaches imbecility . |
| 12 | ‘ He thinks the ministry is an affectation and a waste of time , and on the other hand he thinks priests should be very good , and he does n't think I am because he 's known me for so long , so he 's annoyed with me . |
| 13 | Did n't walk home with me cos I had to go I was and wa , was going to the other side . |
| 14 | I mean I am but I mean I like fish er |
| 15 | I still ca n't read him ; I 'm not able to tell whether he thinks this is likely or not , whether he thinks this is evidence I 'm not his man or he still thinks I am but I had help . |
| 16 | Monsieur thinks I am but I know Madame Duvalle does n't agree . |
| 17 | The only way people will trust me is if I give them a signed piece of paper with my address on . ’ |
| 18 | What amazes me is that , in spite of the horrific nature of what I have seen , I feel neither repulsion nor revulsion . |
| 19 | What worries me is that they may break down the wall scrambling over it . |
| 20 | But what worries me is that , since middle age has been put to fright , will old age descend overnight like a sudden frost on the dew ? ’ |
| 21 | What worries me is that it is not going to end there . |
| 22 | I 'm no expert , but what worries me is that , when you 're dealing with madmen , they increase their demands at the slightest sign of weakness . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ The one thing that worries me is that I do n't think he cares . |
| 24 | The only thing , the only thing that worries me is that the thing gets priority . |
| 25 | Now the thing that worries me is that the N R A and our linkage with them is I do n't think it 's early days for them and they have n't got the the power and the erm law behind them to enforce it as the way which I think most of us would like to think of have a erm erm an organization tha that can in fact start bringing the law in that if people fail to do what they say erm so that aspect I think I now Chris also mentioned this erm tilting in West Sussex and again that mentioned in the structure plan , because I six mill a year but in ten years that 's two and a half inches . |
| 26 | But I think there is I mean something that ought to be mentioned one of the things that worries me is that there is n't here today a man of the type that I meet every day in Oxford who says ‘ sexual harassment ? |
| 27 | Erm , this is something that I 've spoken with about over a long period and what really has concerned me is that we 've two red signals , both facing the traffic and children and blind people could be crossing thinking the traffic had held up , and when I or detecting we rely on our own engineers maybe going round that way , maybe the police or public reporting it . |
| 28 | ‘ You did n't know I was after it as well , did you ? ’ |
| 29 | I can see that perhaps if they want to have a er they may feel they need to stray into other boundaries but I did feel that when I read what Huntingdon district council proposed which was if you like , to completely re-drawing the electoral map for the entire county I was n't actually looking at something that was designed to deal with the interests of the citizens of Huntingdon district council , I was looking at the straightforward political proposal which would be far better to come from a political party than from a district council . |
| 30 | The thesis would be pointless if most mistakes are jurisdictional or if in most cases it was particularly controversial and difficult to establish which are and which are not . |