Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] be [pron] " in BNC.

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1 THE rave new ‘ interactive ’ movie I 'm Your Man is coming to Britain .
2 She could n't take any more of Naylor 's aggression , of Naylor looking at her with such dislike , of Naylor thinking she was anybody 's .
3 During their bizarre courtship she was his willing puppy who came to heel when he whistled .
4 I asked if you were sleeping with him , and since you have done everything to evade a straight answer I must assume the worst or the best , depending whose side you are one . ’
5 In effect we 're we 're erm er we 're safeguarding it for you if you want to .
6 But that 's provided for you and it is erm it you know certainly the assignments I did on the medical practice they were it was very valuable .
7 Could you start off by telling me which pond it is we 're talking about ?
8 As a holy-roller he was something apart .
9 Still , as we all know , size is n't really important , and with the Utopia it 's what 's in the rack that matters .
10 ‘ You have served your theme well , and to my mind it is one that both needed and deserved the service . ’
11 It 's at this point in our agenda when er the world search it 's our agenda and er in introducing the report there are just four things I want to comment about .
12 What we 're actually doing in terms of the product is we 're actually widening the franchise erm I do n't like to use words going up market that suggests that we 're leaving our core customers behind , we will we will add any product that is complimentary to our core kitchens but er we 'll still be the main stance of the product in these two stores for instance , we 're going to introduce a house wear department it is something that we 've been experimenting with before we 're going to erm use the opportunity to widen the franchise on appliances we 're going to erm use the an experiment on erm floorings to match work tops , those kind of developments just to test to see whether the customer reaction is as good as we hoped it would be so that we can then introduce it in the main chain
13 And so we 've got to desire to have our broken relationship with God restored , you see we need to receive what God offers in Christ , the fact that Christ died for our sins does not mean a thing to us until we say yes I accept it for me , I believe you died for me , I receive it , I 'm linked into it , you see your house can be , let me give you a very simple illustration , your house is linked up with er Eastern Electricity and there is so many er I du n no what , what the what it is , but there is the power there , the there are , there are kilo watts of power on tap in your home , but in the winter you 're cold , when it gets dark outside , it 's dark inside the cooker , the electric cooker does n't work , the fridge is not operating the food is going rotten , you ca n't watch a programme on television , why , because you have n't plugged into the source of the power , it 's as simple as that , you ca n't blame the Electricity Board , it 's not Eastern Electricity 's fault it 's your fault because all the plugs are out of the sockets and it does n't matter what the Electricity Board does short of blowing up your house , they can do nothing for you and it does n't matter what God has done in Christ until we as it were to also plug in , it does n't mean a thing to us , but the moment we link in , that 's the change , the lights come on , there 's , there 's heat there , the stove works , the , the radio , the television , the record player , they 're all operating , the freezer 's working , the situation has changed , we needs to receive what God offers us in Christ
14 She did n't lose , she did n't lose weight it 's something else , and erm , and eh , oh that 's why it was , so a .
15 Principally in this chapter it is his watercolours that are discussed .
16 All the gossip it is we must be hearing , or we 'll just up and away , saints guide us .
17 As soon as it 's strikes your , the bottom of your car it 's it begins to rust .
18 In fact , if anything goes wrong at Portslade Community College it 's my fault , and therefore I 'm not going to be in a position where I do n't feel able to take responsibility for any decision made .
19 This is what we look at in terms of er target of erm the er wallets we 're going to print and that is determined , not quite sure what the measurement is for estate agent it 's something to er to do combination of the number of peop er number of mailings they 've done in the last er twelve months and also the number of houses they have on their their books .
20 As an undergraduate he was something of a dandy , and even as a priest his appearance was remarkably trim .
21 Well I remember this wedding it was my auntie and she was she was married at Stronsay to a territorial .
22 ‘ Look , if you have anything against my boy , den it is my business .
23 And so he 'd left London , to come here , hoping to lick the closing wise wound of whatever talent it was he had .
24 In Major League Baseball it is one that comes with Hollywood-sized pay .
25 Even if it was an illusion it was our best illusion .
26 girl I 'm I 'm going out with tonight see her name 's Panja and it 's spelt P a n j a
27 Ooh , do you know what Jan in work she 's she had a phone call she goes oh right yeah , yeah !
28 er if you 're out of work you 're it takes small businesses of .
29 In the first issue she was none other than Marilyn Monroe in the notorious nude calendar pose , on which Hefner spent $500 , most of the capital he had borrowed to launch the magazine .
30 But one does feel sometimes — is a film entitled to sweep you so compellingly into someone else 's life so completely that for an hour and a half you are them — is it then entitled to drop you just when this character is in a perfectly hopeless situation ?
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