Example sentences of "[be] [subord] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Yes I am 'cause I want some .
2 I wish I had been 'cause I took CSEs at school and I got sort of fairly average grades ( 1 in music ; 2 in English ; 3 in history , general science and woodwork ) .
3 Yeah , I mean I The important thing is I think the children do recognize the differences , not that they do n't notice the differences , because they 're Like you say they 're capable of using the other if it if it suits them .
4 So if we 're we 're if we get if we get past that erm er that that point of am I going to take a flier .
5 Now if you 're if somebody becomes a persistent discounter first of all they 'll they 'll question it back at head office .
6 If you 're if you had n't earned the money well you did n't go into it in detail and get the time and motion study man
7 Prejudices , we 're all born with them , they 're if you like perceptions which are only changed very often through experience .
8 Erm I mean if you 're if you feel that I do n't I do n't think you 'd have any problem doing this it 's your it 's your it 's the
9 You see if you 're if you do have a display caravan you can probably do some some grass displays of of large bearings or something in the front of it
10 So if you 're if you find you have some very violent and aggressive people working for you , put them in a pink room to have their sandwiches , so .
11 and you 're if you think , Ooh I 'm I 'm not quite sure what he means by that .
12 So gi given the unless somebody 's out unless you 're if he 'd actually tells me to do it I will say I was sort of oh alright and do it .
13 No when you 've got kids unless you 're unless you go back to work properly
14 who has schizophrenia , they 're , they 're because they 've
15 It 's just the words they 're after you see .
16 Yeah and they 're when they come up to London they 're going
17 Then they 're when they come out erm and she had two erm
18 ‘ They 're as I want them .
19 and the other may or may not of been like I said just the fact I 'm shaking your hand , weapon he goes and does a frenzy test but the evidence on those three were , was n't very , was n't very conclusive and it
20 but it could n't of been cos it came out last week
21 Yeah , I have been cos I 've been bored really so all I do is study .
22 I 've been cos I have n't been to the R A F club for ages there .
23 the other day but yeah it must have been cos I have n't seen any papers since Monday how many thousands do n't pay on not paying their television licence .
24 The argument is that it was easier for them to maintain the part of their image of statelessness which consisted of ‘ how we have always done things ’ , than it would have been if they had individually moved into town and settled into a bidonville .
25 Then , quickly she opened the door and went out and left them standing in a half circle , silent , no laughter on their faces now , just memories of what might have been if they had had a child like the little girl who used to run into them , and a daughter as she was now .
26 By restricting the right to vote to fully accepted church members , political power in Massachusetts was placed in the hands of the godly men who had led the expedition ; those who had joined the expedition merely in the hope of a better standard of living found their efforts justified by success because , despite some difficult times in the 1630s , the labouring population in the colony by the 1640s was fairly certainly more prosperous than they would have been if they had stayed in England , and about 20,000 people had settled in New England at a total cost of about £200,000 .
27 There was no evidence as to what the Perots ' attitude would have been if they had been asked for more than $2.5m. for Caliban .
28 For it hardly damages the contemporary legislature 's ability to work its will if judges decline to speculate about how to read cloudy rules from the dead past or what the intentions of people very different from contemporary legislators would have been if they had thought about a problem they actually ignored .
29 He looked up and his eyes were dark , and we were both embarrassed in a way that we would n't have been if we 'd been close together , but it was better that we should stand on our own for this .
30 Cos you know to look at the bottom line of total design fees against what they would have been if we 'd gone in fixed price ?
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