Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But first I want to say how sorry I am that I had to send Dawn to you instead of coming myself as I promised . |
| 2 | Erm so I 'm not quite sure how representative I am but er I think they do this every forty years or something and then they kind of analyse the sort of speech content , that sort of stuff . |
| 3 | Elizabeth Hick , 63 : ‘ I can never remember how old I am but I 've just learnt to swim and that 's made me feel younger . ’ |
| 4 | He asked me how old I was and I said , ‘ forty-five ’ or whatever I was . |
| 5 | But surely it it 's happened that it 's getting er and and I touch wood I do n't know how superstitious you are but it 's getting better and better and better for you each time because when you came here ooh some years ago since you first came into this studio er you were pretty popular then but it seems to increase all the time does n't it ? |
| 6 | ‘ The fact she ran after the thieves shows how brave she is and how cowardly they are . ’ |
| 7 | Du n no how old she is but looks good on it anyway erm the erm the er let's do these these bits of paper er lost cats and dogs and things . |
| 8 | She needs to hide from reality but she also does n't want Mitch to see how old she is and the truth that she is hiding from : |
| 9 | Melanie wondered how old she was but there was no way of telling ; she could have been any age between twenty-five and forty . |
| 10 | But Brown Owl forgot that one of the questions on it asked how old you are and that it is rude to ask a lady how old she is . |
| 11 | I nearly forgot how old you are when I was putting you in the book . |
| 12 | Okay Mrs erm , can you tell me how old you were when you started your first job ? |
| 13 | So er then I wonder how much a weekly one was but it 's twenty one sixty a week |
| 14 | no it 's not , mum says you 've got to fill in a form and say who 's talked and how old we are and |
| 15 | Just check their influences and you get an idea as to how open-minded they are when it comes to plying their act , as Rob offers . |
| 16 | When we meet , we seem to go in circles ; we 're great at telling the others how wrong they are or how to solve the problem , but we are not prepared to give in a bit and make the necessary compromises . |
| 17 | I know how demanding they are and that they only expect the best . ’ |
| 18 | The main aim of this project is to examine the relationship between parents ' facial expressiveness ( ie how facially expressive they are when feeling emotional ) and their children 's skill in decoding non verbal information ( in this case , their ability to recognise emotions from others ' facial expressions ) . |
| 19 | Again , just to remind you of waiver of premium , this is exactly the same as the Covermaster so you really wo n't need to cover , copy this , it 's charged as we established earlier , as according to your client 's age and sex I E how old they are and what gender they are , you can see how the percentage of the premium is established . |
| 20 | We do ask them how old they are and if they are younger they bottle out when you ask them |
| 21 | Alan told me how old they were but I 'm a bit vague about kids , I 'm afraid . ’ |
| 22 | He also failed to protect his people : if anything is clear it is that , and it can not have increased his popularity . |
| 23 | I mean it is wrong and I do n't think people realize just how wrong it is until they really stop and think about it . |
| 24 | As an adult she was able to see how wrong it was and she knew that they were indulging in something they should not have been doing — although in her childish innocence she had not been aware that it was anything more than an extension of the love and affection she felt for other members of her family . |
| 25 | If the fish was fresh it was because it had been deep frozen within minutes of being caught and packed up to be bought by her goodness only knew how many months later for Mark 's Lenten supper . |
| 26 | But what Mario liked to talk about most often — aside from the intricacies of the sport , its management and its personalities , all of whom fascinated him , and its machines , which absorbed much of his mind — was his past , his ‘ folks ’ , his kids , his life and how funny it was that he should have wound up where he was . |
| 27 | Erm here y'are we 've got a lad with a kite it 's fixed on the ground well let's say let's say it 's fixed on the ground first of all and erm we 're trying to find out how high it is and it 's directly over this point which is erm and we do n't we do n't know . |
| 28 | But it would n't be the po most popular it 's because of |
| 29 | Very popular it was and the parents glad to have their kids taken off their hands . |
| 30 | I am afraid it was because he did not want to get entangled with the left on such an emotional issue . ’ |