Example sentences of "[be] [pron] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And oh Fergus , my dear , lost love , am I doing you so much harm ? |
| 2 | My Lord , erm those are , those are my submissions my Lord , I was going to say something about my learned friends somewhat unusual request to your Lordship to make disparaging comments in judgment about the defendants case , my learned friend wishes to make disparaging comments we save a proper place for those in his submissions when he comes to apply to strike out , or say anything about that , erm , my Lord erm perhaps erm as a , as a final point , erm Mr Bernard after having reviewed a piano recital once wrote , the only thing he enjoyed more than this directive performance was having his teeth pulled , I think your Lordship has not found that the last five and a half days are equally an under defended experience in relation to , to this mornings sir activity |
| 3 | ‘ Aha , but if you are my enemies you 'll know about that . |
| 4 | Faldo said : ‘ When you are my height you have a tendency to go down too far on the ball and that is what I was doing . |
| 5 | ‘ If that had been my purpose I would not have tended your wound , ’ she faltered , hoping he could n't hear the tremor in her voice . |
| 6 | I thought — if it had been my parents who had been talking , they would have been doing it at the tops of their voices , for surely on the content alone that conversation had been a row . |
| 7 | She 's always been my mother I 've hated or been ashamed of . |
| 8 | I only hope that when I am their age I will act a little better . |
| 9 | I do n't agree with it because there are certainly seats there which are their responsibility which are not on this list , particularly around this memorial outside and places like that and erm quite categorically they 're theirs . |
| 10 | You know in a way South Wales is paying back the debt that we pa w w we paid them in their strike you know I mean and That 's communities helping communities and if really this management is talking about er the fact that they resent families not having to go without over Christmas and this sort of thing you know I mean where are their values you know it 's difficult to understand is n't it ? |
| 11 | The company is famous for its generosity and support for charitable causes , as indeed are its employees who have record of practical help to charities that is second to none . |
| 12 | What are its features I hear you ask ? |
| 13 | ‘ It 's all right for them , why could n't it have been their child who died ? ’ |
| 14 | The plaintiff could not sue in contract because she was not a party to the contract ; it had been her friend who had bought the drink . |
| 15 | He thought that McAllister had been oddly subdued on the walk home , and had surreptitiously admired her face — even more beautiful , he thought , when pensive , even though in her early days at Vetch Street it had been her animation which he had admired . |
| 16 | It had not been her head which Ghost of the Tree had worked on to his skull-staff the night before . |
| 17 | Normally when she had gone well , it had been her horse which had received the praise . |
| 18 | No matter what they had said to her at the hospital , it had been her fault she had died . |
| 19 | And Folly was suddenly swept with a wave of gratitude that it had been her assistant who had uncovered her secret , and not the pompous Miss Philimore . |
| 20 | ‘ I wanted to tell you , ’ she said , ‘ the Conductor — he 's like the captain of a ship — knows that you 're our security you want , and to let you go everywhere in the train without question , including the engines , as long as the two engineers — they 're the train-drivers — permit it , which he says they will once he 's talked to them . |
| 21 | Are there decisions which could be classified as popular or unpopular in the eyes of the most important senior judges or the Lord Chancellor ? |
| 22 | Are there assumptions I can safely make about the language they understand , their level of awareness , the social and political groups they identify with ? |
| 23 | Are there meanings which do not yield to words ? |
| 24 | Are there conditions which have to be satisfied for a colour-word to be used meaningfully ? |
| 25 | Are there friends you have not spoken to for months or even longer ? |
| 26 | A question from the floor : are there tribes whose lexicon lacks the words I love you ? |
| 27 | Are there theories which describe what might happen ? |
| 28 | Must this remain speculation , or are there ways we can find out more about this mysterious earth energy ? |
| 29 | You completely the wife actually what erm another good point was that you got in are , are there dependants there were certain close questions again , the fact that the wife smoked a pipe gave you the opportunity to turn round and say well that 's , that 's good , that 's a benefit because she could be classed as a non-smoker there 's just wee er opportunities there and that 's as much as I had if anyone else wants to add to these comments . |
| 30 | Are there localities which may be a source of recruitment if transport were available ? |