Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] be [conj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | What all of them contend is that the auditory effect of all English-language verse can only in a schematic and starveling fashion be pin-pointed by applying the only two measurements that traditional scansion recognizes : on the one hand the number of syllables , on the other the number of occurrences of ictus or ‘ stress ’ . |
| 2 | this the , what makes me laugh is that people 's intelligence , they walk along a street shopping and as soon as they walk into a restaurant they sit down and start smoking |
| 3 | Well the specific question I asked is whether you 've quantified in percentage terms erm perhaps Group Captain you could give us an indication of how it has affected it ? |
| 4 | I would like to think that if Freud were alive today , he would have said the same thing , of course when Freud wrote this book in nineteen twenty one er there was no such thing as group psychotherapy it had n't been invented yet , it was to become very much after World War Two but partly existed before and perhaps it 's past its peak now , but erm it did become very much a after World War Two and the point I made was and this is really wh wh what Heather ha h has just said , that if you take Freud 's book on , on group seriously , how can you do group psychoanalysis ? |
| 5 | After the massacre , he wrote , ‘ All I regret is that any of the sept got away . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ What I regret is that we did n't force the bank into this situation 15 months ago when we first approached it over the demerger . |
| 7 | ‘ No , the only thing I regret is that I may have rushed you into something you 're already beginning to repent . |
| 8 | What I mean is that you will find little use for the basic ‘ one — pause — two ’ sequences of block followed by counter-attack . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , I suppose what I mean is that Richard is someone I would never have introduced to my parents — and he is someone I had quite a … sexual relationship with . |
| 10 | Of course not , all I mean is that the distance between the charges is very small with respect to some other distance of interest . |
| 11 | any other views on that , I mean is that a , yes |
| 12 | All I mean is that brides are always described as beautiful . ’ |
| 13 | What I mean is that if he gets hit in the body anywhere , any place above his balls , he is dead , no dispute . |
| 14 | Well is that fetching I mean is that a is that the routine that 's picking information back from the lexicon or something ? |
| 15 | I mean is that because that because you 've made that one of the things you want to do , you want to avoid if possible or |
| 16 | No what I mean is that er once the item is in production if you wish to order another hundred drop tanks or another thousand drop tanks if you make that order then approximately one year later you would receive deliveries of those tanks against that order . |
| 17 | ‘ What I mean is that you have already told me , ’ he cut in sharply . |
| 18 | ‘ What I mean is that I wish I could snap my fingers and suddenly there 'd be a band playing some soft , slow music . ’ |
| 19 | What I mean is that I 've finally been forced to admit that the large-animal side of veterinary practice is still controlled by men . |
| 20 | Yeah but would they , what I mean is that there are even for the parents |
| 21 | I know , but what I mean is that when they see the city centre , the people who are walking up and down the city centre , they see all the national charities , they do n't necessarily feel that they 're organised in the same way and therefore that they should be participating , and the whole palaver of getting a licence and applying is actually quite difficult , it 's not a simple , it 's not something , we get numerous telephone calls in the office saying ‘ Well can I go out next Saturday and rattle a tin for such-and-such ’ , and you say ‘ Well , you ca n't ’ , and it 's left much too late , so that people do n't know about the way you get licenses to rattle tins in city centre . |
| 22 | Well I suppose it has in a sense , yes , it 's enabled us to both confront the fact that that I 'm not all knowing and that I 'm not all powerful , which I mean was because my children , as I say , are still quite young , which is something new for them , I suppose , as well as something new for me . |
| 23 | And I mean being that he parked there it was perfect were n't it ? |
| 24 | The first thing I realised was that I liked her . |
| 25 | What I fear is that A-levels will be diluted without at the same time lengthening degree courses , particularly mathematical ones , to maintain standards . |
| 26 | The point I make is that the the allocations that we are making are not going to solve the problem across the full spectrum of the economy , they are targeted . |
| 27 | ‘ The point I make is that you need not worry . |
| 28 | And the second point I make is that if there are fools who are doing it wrongly then some of you ought to be doing it correctly . |
| 29 | The instructions I got is that no Walkman are allowed in school . |
| 30 | The only one I got was that in his view thirteen and a half was too late for confirmation ; it was best done as a sort of early ‘ double shot ’ — like a jab of cholera with typhoid — along with baptism . |