Example sentences of "[adv] be [noun prp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So is Charles Aught , that rather camp man in advertising , who writes poems and art-criticism , and whose correspondence with his fellow-critic Elwyn West was auctioned at Sotheby 's and fetched £25 . |
| 2 | and she 's got arthritis , well in her knees , same as I have but not quite so bad because er , well up to now , but then again she 's younger than I am er several years younger than me and , but she 's getting on and so is Jack you see and er , and er so erm I 've had a , as I say , I 've had , I 've had a wonderful life really . |
| 3 | N not as it is today , beautiful green grass and we used to play er cricket , football , marbles er pitch card , ring tor , er duckie stone , and all that of course the village in those days was divided into two parts and if you lived over 's Hill you was a downtowner . |
| 4 | One did not have to attend school meals with the boys over the week-end if one was off duty ; and the only master who might have noticed I had been away was Méli himself , but as it happened he 'd been in Athens . |
| 5 | And technicolour , on the night er top of the shop tonight was Gerald who gave the vote of thanks , who got twenty six and a half . |
| 6 | In previous relationships it had always been Lotta who had moved on to better things ; she 'd never been rejected before and she felt angry and humiliated , particularly as she saw her standard of living about to fall . ’ |
| 7 | It was disturbing , in an invigorating sort of way , because it had always been Mandy who saw her beauty , no matter what . |
| 8 | My how like is Mary she looked so very pretty . |
| 9 | And it was only about we i it was wi within a couple of minutes , or , probably less Jim came in er I think he was , I do n't know where he 'd been cos his day off was Thursday I think . |
| 10 | It had also been Marcus who had phoned Connon with the news of Arthur 's visit to the police station . |
| 11 | Looking out over the silvery water , she wondered whether it really was Robert who had been a spectator of what was apparently a passionate embrace . |
| 12 | If she could n't be Peter she was quite prepared , once she 'd mastered the technicalities , to hide behind a reflection . |
| 13 | I keep thinking today 's Thursday I do n't know why |
| 14 | Here 's Alison there 's a good boy , there 's my good lad Who 's coming ? , who 's coming ? , who 's coming Rocket ? |
| 15 | Here 's Jochim He needs a bit of help here Cooper breathing down his neck . |
| 16 | Hello my name is Caroline and here is Jenny who 's taken a bit long to come into class . |
| 17 | Erm on my left here is John who 's er from the District T U C. |
| 18 | And here was Margot it 's , it 's been called off , or it 's called off . |
| 19 | Here was France herself , mutilated but undaunted . |
| 20 | It seemed to come from another world of reference , an older , ordinary world , of platitude and cliché , of pattern and familiar family ties , a world that she had thought they had never entered , for many good reasons never entered : and now here was Charles himself , invoking its terms , as though it had been there always , as though they had always inhabited its domain . |
| 21 | To God 's question , ‘ Where is Abel your brother ? ’ he replies , ‘ I do not know , ’ and then , ‘ Am I my brother 's keeper ? ’ |
| 22 | Then the Lord said to Cain , ‘ Where is Abel your brother ? ’ |
| 23 | Now where is er where is Rita where are you Rit all right my love all right where 's Rita I 've got I 've got yellow I 've got red I 've got blue I 've got green . |
| 24 | where 's Mark One ? |
| 25 | where 's Danny you know ? |
| 26 | Well Mary going to judge it and , would he let her do it on her own , no he followed her round , making comments here , making comments there , trying to influence her fact is , this 'll make you laugh , you know the wall displays you know th erm the books , Where 's Wally Where 's Wally you have this page , of really tiny little things and you have to find Wally , who 's a person , right ? |