Example sentences of "[pron] be [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why is John , and Ann and Paul and Teresa and all them been on that trussing line , and Merv . |
| 2 | Sir Thomas was quite willing to try , even though ‘ four gentlemen , two of whom are of another communion ’ , had declined to sign the petition . |
| 3 | aye but I mean some of them are on this Committee as well I mean Wendy and I for a start erm so that would be good right let's try and give that one a |
| 4 | Although they are rarer fossils , some of them are of such interest that they are worth mentioning here . |
| 5 | And a lot of them are before that . |
| 6 | Five of them are in that happy position by chance ; one , just one , is there by deliberate design , carefully phased and executed over months . |
| 7 | The skills and expertise required to manage or advise them are in many respects different to those required in a large organization . |
| 8 | Mm , some of , a lot of them are like that |
| 9 | The companies that produce them are amongst several in the region celebrating today 's announcement of Queens Awards for exports and technology . |
| 10 | Where had I been before that ? |
| 11 | ‘ How long have I been like this ? ’ she asked in one interval . |
| 12 | ‘ But just between you and me and SHE magazine , her Majesty and I are like that , ‘ said Dame Edna , indicating a royal chumminess that went beyond mere Commonwealth ties . |
| 13 | ‘ That is because I am under this roof . ’ |
| 14 | It is not , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , that I am under any illusion on this score . |
| 15 | I am at that crossroads . |
| 16 | I 'm as good at this as I am at being chairman of the board — and you know how good I am at that … ’ |
| 17 | For I am at such an inn because it is all I can afford — and you would not be here had you better means . ’ |
| 18 | But I must say I am at some loss as to why you should be so concerned with these most trivial of errors . ’ |
| 19 | How clever I am at these things . |
| 20 | It would have served as a substitute-gratification for their own sadism ( i.e. , ‘ I can not retaliate against my father , but I can against my younger brother ’ ) ; but also as a defence on the part of the ego ( i.e. , ‘ I am spared the anxiety of being made the object of an attack if I can instead become the attacker ’ ) ; finally , it would also have contributed a first , rudimentary focus for the superego ( i.e. , ‘ My father is not now the attacker — I am — hence I am to that extent my father ! ’ ) . |
| 21 | Not all the congratulatory letters were complimentary , but I 'm just as grateful to those who took me to task or argued with me or lectured me as I am to those who gave me a kind pat . |
| 22 | Looking at her he thought , ‘ Do I realize how important I am to this woman ? |
| 23 | ‘ I am to some extent on home ground there , ’ she said , reluctantly and not looking at him . |
| 24 | When Wordsworth confessed in a letter of 1794 that " I am of that odious class of men called democrats " , what he was indicating was not so much that he was a supporter of a wider parliamentary franchise as that he was on the side of the people and that he was a social and political egalitarian , though not necessarily also an economic one : " … my heart was all/Given to the people , and my love was theirs " , recalled the poet in The Prelude ( 1805 , Book IX , II . |
| 25 | My wife is travelling without a maid or nurse and I am of little use in a sickroom . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I am as sure of it as I am of this water . ’ |
| 27 | Almost as frightened as I am of this gang . ’ |
| 28 | His Master 's Voice in Hamlet , you know , it 's just , stick a who I am on that wee dog , I can remember I can see , I can remember that from |
| 29 | I have no doubt that there are many colleagues more expert than I am on this subject already planning their drafts ! |
| 30 | I want to show you how grateful I am for that . ’ |