Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All four books reveal a steady concern with imitation and interpretation , and to read them together is to be clearer about what it is that the writer intends us to think that he thinks about things . |
| 2 | But the first time I did use it I thought me inside were on fire . |
| 3 | ‘ Would I rather be on the field ? |
| 4 | Is this on pause , I better be on pause . |
| 5 | I just been in loads of workshops |
| 6 | I take I take , only occasionally I go mad and let ripe and have quite a few , other times I just be on an orange juice and lemonade |
| 7 | In moving the motion this time I 'm not going to be very passionate like I normally am on on subjects in this council chamber I 'm I 'm actually gon na try and keep , I 'm actually going to try and keep politics down to a low level and er because I believe there conscience on all sides of this chamber . |
| 8 | ceremony I ever been in all my life ! |
| 9 | Had I ever been in love ? |
| 10 | I doubt if I ever was in any real sense . |
| 11 | Will John and I ever be like that ? |
| 12 | I was surprised , as I always was at such moments , how slim and small she felt . |
| 13 | That 's what I still am to my mother . |
| 14 | I like being in i it 's it 's s It 's your nature , if if |
| 15 | I usually am at the end of the week , and this one has been particularly tough . |
| 16 | I know you mean well and I do appreciate all you 're doing , but I really am in the middle of a thought and it 's very difficult for me when you keep … look , if it 's really , really important , then please do interrupt me — but only if it 's urgent , OK ? |
| 17 | So I began to sleep with men in order to discover myself , to see , through their unknown , hitherto unmet eyes , the self that I really was at the same time as the self that I really might be . |
| 18 | And what use would I then be to my father ? |
| 19 | Well I actually been on commission only before er Yellow Pages when I started with well a |
| 20 | And yours truly is in the drivin' seat . |
| 21 | He covers it up well , I never been as things wrong |
| 22 | I never been to a restaurant — not on my own like . |
| 23 | I never been to Brighton . |
| 24 | Mr Hellyer said , ‘ To tell you the truth , Olly , I never was on the Council . |
| 25 | And he got the pi and then held the pig and I never was at the actual killing but I know they did er Then they cut its throat you see ? |
| 26 | I ne I do n't know I never was in a place where there was one like that . |
| 27 | I would endorse what Ken has said , I certainly am of the view there are overriding reasons which I 'll come to in a moment for putting forward a general location , I had seen that as a central location which may or may not span more than one district . |
| 28 | " I certainly am in luck ! " she thought . |
| 29 | He was always very amenable to me when , as chairman of the Arts Council , I too was in need of some special support . |
| 30 | One young man who impressed me immensely was from Scunthorpe . |