Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Most of the Pakistani mothers I asked were against sex education in school .
2 ‘ A good dealer gives a service — everything I sell is in perfect condition and I buy back my stuff if need be . ’
3 Animals always came first — every book I read was about them . ’
4 Oh that 's not so bad you see I 've been on holiday all last week
5 Which I mean is after something of ten years in which case erm I would have that there 's a thorough investigation so that actual , you know , er progress back it around the town as well as possible , er need money put into it , but I think that that 's what some of these places with , with no hope of a short term bypass need .
6 Now I , I mean I , okay I 'm only one person , I mean is round the table is there anybody who can say that if
7 I mean being on my own , travelling down here the way that I did .
8 But I mean being in the water I had no life jacket or anything like that so it was a matter of trying to keep afloat and er kicking off my boots and getting me overalls .
9 But , I mean being in their seventies , well he 's eighty now !
10 Ooh I , I mean being in a right mess
11 Tagalog concepts are directly relevant to the present discussion because the Buid with whom I lived are in daily contact with Tagalog speaking immigrants from neighbouring islands .
12 And as for Leeds , the only boys I met were at teenage dances .
13 And all thanks I got was to be sacked at end of summer — though only for a few months , that is , 'cos of the revolution .
14 We were both professors at Imperial College in 1956–59 but the impression I got was of a professor somewhat on the Kissinger model — a status symbol for the college , but not an approachable colleague .
15 the only thing I got was of Stella
16 The last thing I expected was to be woken from unconsciousness by an air hostess with the face of an angel , gently patting on my shoulder and telling me that the plane had just landed in Miami .
17 I hate being on the Social .
18 I hate being in debt to anyone , but with you it 's different , Jane .
19 McCrea sums up the Western code by his declaration that all his wants is to ‘ enter my house justified ’ while Scott is more easy-going and hence survives to mourn his partner in a world where a Westerner is more likely to be an unshaven brute played by Warren Oates than a white-hatted , true-hearted paladin .
20 If I were back at the A squared , I squared is minus one , so I 've got minus three squared , there 's two give me by I Equals minus thirty nine , now because those two complex numbers are the same are the same , so sixteen is E S squared minus three square , the imaginary grids are also the same , so minus thirty equals two , eight B.
21 basically so am I , I 've got to write a news in the next few days so I 'll see in early February tell him about the ideas , I 've also been in touch with another lobbying firm , I say been in touch but it 's quite easy because
22 And a good thing as I say is to just erm highlight the stuff that you want if you 've
23 They occur more commonly , and surgery is more frequently practised upon them ; but what I say is of equal relevance to female-to-male transsexuals .
24 Er I think we must remind ourselves that er this year 's as I say is by no means er generous and for that reason we 're not aiming higher , not because we would n't like to , but because we recognize the , the restrictions placed from elsewhere .
25 Which I suggest is after that workshop .
26 The salesman I approached was in his early forties and begrudgingly admitted that he had a fair knowledge of the wordprocessor we use .
27 We are determined to make it work — the last thing I want is to be a laughing stock among local farmers if I fail . ’
28 ‘ What I want is to be in charge of myself , to decide what I will or will not do . ’
29 ‘ All I want is to be able to go out and play with my friends , ’ she says .
30 ‘ It 's so wonderful — all I want is to be with her and I get terribly possessive .
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