Example sentences of "[pers pn] and be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is uncertain whether he composed this song himself or adapted an existing poem to the mocking , sentimental tone that was his and was already regarded as typical of Dublin . |
| 2 | And I have kept to that , although one or two of them have stayed with me and are therefore not so young any more . |
| 3 | He 's spending a week with me and is very interested in what I 've told him about you two . ’ |
| 4 | Mick had arrived before me and was almost at the front . |
| 5 | The other day I was on a plane , and a man came up to me and was absolutely thrilled to see me . |
| 6 | She turned quickly away from me and was very still as she fought with her emotions . |
| 7 | He was two years older than me and was only eighteen when he had first killed somebody . |
| 8 | Uncle waited up for me and was so cross that I was really frightened . |
| 9 | Moreover , as the joker in the pack , the only person without a partner , I was a subject of general interest , and to make matters still worse , Lynn Carter had conceived a pallid intellectual crush on me and was always hanging around trying to engage me in conversation . |
| 10 | I walked out of the champagne tent in a dream or , rather , a nightmare and put two elderly customers , who were coming towards me and were obviously intent on a reviving glass or two , in peril as I blundered into them . |
| 11 | Some people are very mistrustful of machines , perhaps because they have had bad experiences with them and are therefore nervous about using them . |
| 12 | Plants with defence ti-ichomes are suited to the smaller species as the larger ones have to cut a path through them and are therefore at a disadvantage . |
| 13 | I am still going through them and am constantly surprised by what I discover . |
| 14 | and , and what do you do about it , you know whe when they er y you know , I mean , I mean I think one of the things is you , you can start off erm you know very open and so on , but if you 're not careful y y you actually take on responsibility for them you know in a , in a way which is actually not helpful to them and is probably very bad for you |
| 15 | The Men were progressing up towards them and were just about to reach Woil who , as usual , was swaying back and forth on his stance with a pleasant expression on his face as he intoned , ‘ Lovely Men , so good to me , so generous to Woil who is good and never tries to hurt you . |
| 16 | Their homes had belonged to them , had been taken away from them and were now in the hands of others . |
| 17 | Some of the professionals believed that they had greater patience than their able-bodied colleagues , and often pointed out that their patients and clients had greater confidence in them and were more likely to take their advice . |
| 18 | ‘ Some of my best friends in Britain worked for them and were suddenly on the end of fax machines . |
| 19 | One of the most welcome sights around Hailing which we can thank the Romans for are the pheasants , it is reckoned they were first introduced by them and were quickly established here in Kent . |
| 20 | A lot of the best-looking Waafs on the station had acquired Australian boyfriends , and two of the Met girls had recently married them and were impatiently waiting to get on the ship for Aussie-land to join their husbands . |
| 21 | If you are an ‘ at risk ’ person , and not very stable on your feet , or walk with an aid , do not have open fires in the house — you could fall on them and be badly burned . |
| 22 | I scanned them once just to make sure Zaria was n't among them and was pretty sure she was n't . |
| 23 | Edward 's extravagant revenge on his erstwhile enemies — the so-called Contrariants — was hardly calculated to reconcile them and was too excessive to repress them . |
| 24 | The CECOS surveyors make it clear that the drinking problem which most concerned them and was undoubtedly of serious proportions in their sample , was by no means confined to men ( indeed their condemnations of drinking mothers are particularly sharp ) but one can certainly detect a mainly female temperance counter-current in the survey , apparently connected to religious observance.21 ( A male informant remembered during the inter-war period " a lady keyboard operator [ who ] used to get out her Bible and have a wee read " , at idle moments . ) |
| 25 | My mother did n't need them and was far too pretty to wear them if she had needed them . |
| 26 | My mother did n't need them and was far too pretty to wear them even if she had needed them . |
| 27 | But whatever else young horses do , in general they want to please you and are so very trusting about it . |
| 28 | We represent the artist , work directly with him and are probably responsible for a large part of his ‘ turnover ’ . |
| 29 | By being supportive like this , it will reassure him that his family love him and are there to help him through this difficult time . |
| 30 | I who have no name and no body — I have slipped out from under him and am now scattered above like flakes of ash-blonde human hair . |