Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of the charges quoted was outrageous , £5–6 per page is pretty much the norm but beware of minimum charges , and as the job we tested them on was non-urgent we could afford to be a little more flexible . |
| 2 | Everyone locally is keen to support their local theatre . |
| 3 | I think the thing that worries me most is that later on , he did n't manage it too well , a lot of other things were going wrong in his life , and at that point the name calling continued , and the stuff that maybe was n't so hurtful early on seemed to become very hurtful then . |
| 4 | the thing that annoys me most is that , the amount of bad memories people have , I mean not bad memories as in bad thoughts , but bad |
| 5 | Set in a glade of thinned-out coconut palms , it was breathtaking , but what amazed me most was that , within sight of the most beautiful beaches in the world , the garden contained a large pool edged with white and blue tiles . |
| 6 | I think the ones that made me most were those which were very influenced by Picasso , which are in the Tate Gallery . |
| 7 | Arguing with them is always fatal , inviting them in is worse . |
| 8 | You will need a rope to lower them to the ground as they are heavy — throwing them down is dangerous . |
| 9 | And intermingled with my usual imagined scenes of Mala and me together were other images — of Grand Emissaries and God-Kings , what they might want of me , what they might offer in return . |
| 10 | On that occasion , although one of them only was present , both counsel and solicitor were in court acting on their behalf , and I find it very difficult to accept that neither counsel nor solicitor at the conclusion of the hearing explained in the clearest terms to the second appellant precisely what it was that she and the first appellant were to be restrained from doing . |
| 11 | It establishes an order from which no one can keep his distance ; nothing henceforth is exterior . |
| 12 | Linking them together is one common elected purpose — the alluring and sometimes desperate hunt for a hidden hoard of holy relics . |
| 13 | In some instances such data will suffice ; in many cases they will have to suffice as nothing better is available . |
| 14 | I mean , the guys who took me down were real incompetents . |
| 15 | Someone somewhere is responsible for the situation we are in . ’ |
| 16 | His rather was Catalan ; he had come to Mexico as a young man and worked in his brother-in-law 's grocery shop . |
| 17 | His rather was English and his mother Scottish . |
| 18 | I mean part of it is what I think and part of it is that I think that I like it because it works , that these things — I basically am unconvinced much of the modern tradition . |
| 19 | I better be sure it 's er , what Friday night cos I did before . |
| 20 | And I perhaps am secret . |
| 21 | I suspect there are few poems which are able to make a youthful reader feel at close hand the desperation of the old as I perhaps am able to grasp having read such a beautiful piece of work . |
| 22 | Nor am I under the illusion that I alone am free of illusion . |
| 23 | Must I alone , must I alone be mute– |
| 24 | In working through it I noticed an error in Step 7 but I not been able to correct it . |
| 25 | Why should I not be proud . |
| 26 | A world of cruel greed , rape , nuclear war , phallocentric control , where women are pushed to the sidelines , how can I not be afraid of you ? |
| 27 | But why should I not be secretive ? |
| 28 | Even letting you you 've all talked about the you know employers are paying money in and so on , we do n't want the schemes wound up , er if I was the the employer , might I not be concerned if you elected a a chairman that was n't erm favourable to me ? |
| 29 | I not being cheeky . |
| 30 | I not being rude . |