Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What impressed them most was that ActionAid works with the people themselves to decide how the money should be used to help the whole community . |
| 2 | ‘ What struck me most was that everybody in America smiles all the time . |
| 3 | ‘ The thing that surprised me most was that they did n't know how to make a quality tube at AISA and we showed them . ’ |
| 4 | His statement to the conference and to me personally was that it was a Sunday issue . |
| 5 | How could I not be when I thought of Mum Lying there in that bed day after day , completely wrecked by Dad having run off with another woman ? |
| 6 | I 'm all for missing hockey — how could I not be when my class coined a special place in the team-list for me : ‘ Lipman IVb . |
| 7 | ‘ I am confident I am just as good as I ever was and in some ways I am probably better than ever . |
| 8 | try and be er er er as positive as I always am but er |
| 9 | right , well , I 'm , I 'm not worried about the point as to whether it arise out of cross examination , I seldom am because there is always erm can be an opportunity for further cross examination if the other party wants to , so er on the grounds of the objection I , I , I do n't uphold it you can ask that if you like , but er I do want the jury always to keep their eye on that what really is the issue in the case er certainly from the defendants point of view , I know what you say |
| 10 | I I just appealing for MPs and I know you have the radio on just to see if I 'm being rude about you , and of course I never am because I 'm a I 'm a nice person . |
| 11 | I never was and never shall be ; you 've left the sir in the grave . ’ |
| 12 | I am bigger than any of them , but I think the reason they let me through is because I am older : they assume I am crew . |
| 13 | So I did n't do any appropriate sociability there but I think what threw me off is cos I 'd already said Helen to Stephen , I know you and everything and it was as if it was part of the same thing |
| 14 | ‘ What kind of mother could you possibly be when you 're working all day and out partying all night ? |
| 15 | The arousal I 've always thought that er that you should n't be nervous but you always are but obviously as you 're nervous when you do a whole host of things and nerves as you become more skilled at it go away er and I 'd assume that like most things that the nerves will totally disappear and was somewhat surprised to find out that you 're always aroused |
| 16 | As her best friend , Carolyn Bartholomew observes of the woman she has known since they were schoolgirls : ‘ She is not a happy person but she once was and it is my dearest hope that one day she will find the happiness she truly deserves . ’ |
| 17 | and er , I said what you mean Charlie , cor all dog 's mess all over the place , I said it is n't , I , I said have you ever been and he said no I , I said well there you are , I said if you have n't been I said you do n't know what it 's like , I said you 're talking about some old girl that lives on , in Little Sandhurst , who 's got a thing about dogs and I said kicking up a lot of fuss about it , but I said the women 's a dam liar |
| 18 | Have the courage to show the world who you really are and you may be in for a pleasant surprise . |
| 19 | Mark tells us so much about who Jesus is and what he 's come for just by showing us that one miracle but what I 'm suggesting to you here is that you can look for greater meaning in it , further symbolism . |
| 20 | Erm what , what I said to you earlier was that er at the very beginning where you could help me was if , if you found this of value to you , this service that I 've just provided , erm perhaps you could erm th there might be er some friends of yours that er you might find that this might be of beneficial to . |
| 21 | Just quit acting like the silly , irresponsible female you undoubtedly are and get in this car before I get out and make you ! ’ |
| 22 | You either are or you 're not . |
| 23 | You either are or you are n't . |
| 24 | But I was fooled , like we always are when we 're in love — blinded you know . |
| 25 | The magic word that justifies those doubts is ‘ phase ’ or ‘ period ’ , as if a stage has been reached where God is no longer necessary : But the key motif in them all is ingratitude , a moral , spiritual and emotional insensitivity to the reality of what we once were and would be now apart from God . |
| 26 | The , one of the other points we did , we also was that there was no indications of when this legislation was going to let these changed take place and that would have been very helpful to the editor . |
| 27 | But now we can it last become what we really are and that means we shall become different from other men . |
| 28 | It is to reach a position where we are no longer assailed by doubts and uncertainties , where we know who we really are and where we are going . |
| 29 | we 've got to act fairly quickly so can we decide in principle whether we 're going to do this or not and let them know that we either are or we are n't . |
| 30 | One reason for including them here is that the bombings and assassinations of today are the legacy of the civil disturbances of the 1960s . |