Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems only appropriate to begin this chapter by establishing the limits of the subject , because not everyone has been in agreement as to where influence ends and control begins . |
| 2 | ‘ No-one has been on this path for two days . ’ |
| 3 | Most of the Pakistani mothers I asked were against sex education in school . |
| 4 | ‘ A good dealer gives a service — everything I sell is in perfect condition and I buy back my stuff if need be . ’ |
| 5 | Animals always came first — every book I read was about them . ’ |
| 6 | Oh that 's not so bad you see I 've been on holiday all last week |
| 7 | Which I mean is after something of ten years in which case erm I would have that there 's a thorough investigation so that actual , you know , er progress back it around the town as well as possible , er need money put into it , but I think that that 's what some of these places with , with no hope of a short term bypass need . |
| 8 | Now I , I mean I , okay I 'm only one person , I mean is round the table is there anybody who can say that if |
| 9 | I mean being on my own , travelling down here the way that I did . |
| 10 | But I mean being in the water I had no life jacket or anything like that so it was a matter of trying to keep afloat and er kicking off my boots and getting me overalls . |
| 11 | But , I mean being in their seventies , well he 's eighty now ! |
| 12 | Ooh I , I mean being in a right mess |
| 13 | Tagalog concepts are directly relevant to the present discussion because the Buid with whom I lived are in daily contact with Tagalog speaking immigrants from neighbouring islands . |
| 14 | And as for Leeds , the only boys I met were at teenage dances . |
| 15 | And all thanks I got was to be sacked at end of summer — though only for a few months , that is , 'cos of the revolution . |
| 16 | We were both professors at Imperial College in 1956–59 but the impression I got was of a professor somewhat on the Kissinger model — a status symbol for the college , but not an approachable colleague . |
| 17 | the only thing I got was of Stella |
| 18 | The last thing I expected was to be woken from unconsciousness by an air hostess with the face of an angel , gently patting on my shoulder and telling me that the plane had just landed in Miami . |
| 19 | I hate being on the Social . |
| 20 | I hate being in debt to anyone , but with you it 's different , Jane . |
| 21 | McCrea sums up the Western code by his declaration that all his wants is to ‘ enter my house justified ’ while Scott is more easy-going and hence survives to mourn his partner in a world where a Westerner is more likely to be an unshaven brute played by Warren Oates than a white-hatted , true-hearted paladin . |
| 22 | If I were back at the A squared , I squared is minus one , so I 've got minus three squared , there 's two give me by I Equals minus thirty nine , now because those two complex numbers are the same are the same , so sixteen is E S squared minus three square , the imaginary grids are also the same , so minus thirty equals two , eight B. |
| 23 | The exam educates youngsters cheaply up to a level that is not reached in other countries until someone has been at university for a year . |
| 24 | Mr Whinnett said : ‘ I am not a psychiatrist , but if someone has been through a traumatic experience I have to consider that it could happen . |
| 25 | basically so am I , I 've got to write a news in the next few days so I 'll see in early February tell him about the ideas , I 've also been in touch with another lobbying firm , I say been in touch but it 's quite easy because |
| 26 | And a good thing as I say is to just erm highlight the stuff that you want if you 've |
| 27 | They occur more commonly , and surgery is more frequently practised upon them ; but what I say is of equal relevance to female-to-male transsexuals . |
| 28 | Er I think we must remind ourselves that er this year 's as I say is by no means er generous and for that reason we 're not aiming higher , not because we would n't like to , but because we recognize the , the restrictions placed from elsewhere . |
| 29 | Which I suggest is after that workshop . |
| 30 | The salesman I approached was in his early forties and begrudgingly admitted that he had a fair knowledge of the wordprocessor we use . |