Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought she was never going to stop until I heard a woman say , ‘ I see 'er 's still showin' off . ’ |
| 2 | But , like a cat , every muscle in that perfectly honed body of his is permanently coiled in perfect readiness to spring . |
| 3 | Evidence of pride in ourselves is also provided by the legacy we leave behind . |
| 4 | But as researchers are beginning to realise , the way to learn the most about ourselves is probably to combine the two approaches . |
| 5 | That logical mind of yours is n't going to stand any nonsense , is it ? |
| 6 | Surely an Association such as yours is basically run by the officers , it is a certain amount of window dressing having local councillors , if you like , sitting on your executive . |
| 7 | Occasionally , it just looks as though someone 's not going to turn up because for one reason or another they 've been held up . |
| 8 | Erm , the carol festivals are on and there 's one at Thaxted , which might be quite nice , actually , erm it 's on the same page , the previous column And someone 's just taken a driving test at ninety one . |
| 9 | I do n't know how you all managed to worm your way into our confidence , but someone 's already taken care of one of your friends , and the other will be lucky if he lives until his trial . ’ |
| 10 | , but someone 's already told him . |
| 11 | , but someone 's already told him . |
| 12 | DARK STAR Decimax D12 Digital Bass System Someone 's finally opted to control a signal with a digital-based interface . |
| 13 | and then suddenly from the other end there 's this like , cos we , it 's like a big room , it 's the other end of the room all the dealers there , and er anyway and er and suddenly I hear , and then someone 's like saying talking , they 're all , somebody 's like mi microphone and starts talking to them about er what 's happening in the market , things like that blah blah blah blah blah , and this means blah blah blah blah so watch out for blah blah blah and I thought it 's like living in a different world , it 's amazing . |
| 14 | ‘ Someone 's really let this lot go to seed . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Good old Acapulco — someone 's always dropping in for lunch ’ |
| 16 | someone 's obviously brought , obviously brought from Spain , from a holiday , who wants a secondhand bull from Spain ? |
| 17 | ‘ There 's a garage on your right so look for exhaust fumes — someone 's about to move , they may pull out without looking . |
| 18 | Says Souness : ‘ I think you realise quite quickly if someone is not suited to playing for you or your club then you do what you have to do . ’ |
| 19 | If he feels someone is not applying themselves 100 per cent , he wo n't spare reputations or ego — whoever you are . |
| 20 | Sometimes the tears come for no reason ( by which phrase we mean that someone is not crying for a particular reason , for something or someone in particular , but that they are crying for everything ) . |
| 21 | There are the Sechem , who deal with anything connected with science , and they act as surgeons if someone is badly hurt . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's extremely unsafe and it 's only a matter of time before someone is badly hurt . ’ |
| 23 | The stadium 's been warned to improve the track before someone is seriously hurt . |
| 24 | And Station Officer Eric Warrior warned : ‘ It 's only a matter of time before someone is seriously hurt , no doubt about it . |
| 25 | This is played from the Critical Parent where someone is apparently praising a job well done but spoils the effect by pointing out a relatively insignificant imperfection . |
| 26 | If something or someone is deliberately hidden from us what does this lead us to expect ? |
| 27 | James S. Ackerman , the architectural scholar , makes use of this phrase in writing about art and communication : ‘ What a work of art communicates can be described only in terms of an interaction between an object and a subject ; it communicates nothing at all unless someone is there to look at it . |
| 28 | If government says that a unanimous verdict is necessary for criminal conviction because special moral harm is suffered when someone is unjustly convicted of a crime , then it must take that special moral harm into account in considering , for example , the admissibility of confessions under various circumstances . |
| 29 | He 's at a party in Toronto to honour his pal Warren Beatty ; someone is always giving a party for Beatty and when they do n't he gives one for himself . |
| 30 | Nuffink 's ever gon na be the same again , that 's fer sure . ’ |