Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The presence of incomers was presented as the most immediate and tangible aspect of the general threat to the Shetland ‘ Way of Life ’ Although Shetland is reputed to be something of a melting pot , given the many different influxes of people over the centuries ( one native council official saw the typical Shetlanders as a bit of a ‘ mongrel ’ ) , these incomers were presumed to be somewhat different : most of them are here because their jobs brought them here ( those who are not here because of their jobs are eccentric ! ) , their stay will be temporary , there are more of them , they represent mainstream and hence dominant ways of life , they regard Shetlanders as peasants or country hicks . |
| 2 | ‘ The best referees ought to be here , but some of them are not because the SRA is cutting back on everything , ’ said Davies . |
| 3 | The Earth is included because though only a few tens of impact craters are known , all of them are less than 500 Ma old and thus constitute recent cratering . |
| 4 | But they and the families which ran them are now as much a part of local history as pits and shipbuilding . |
| 5 | Oh well might have perhaps will you have a spare day No I want to go out for a meal No , but I been home but at dinner time just . |
| 6 | So my client and I are back where we started . |
| 7 | You are not alone as I am just as confused myself . |
| 8 | ‘ I am here because I was asked to come by Claudia . |
| 9 | ‘ I am here because I live here , but why are you here ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I am here because you have a legacy from your father . |
| 11 | I am here because you can not manage without me , and I know it . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I am here because you belong to me . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I am here because I choose to be , ’ she said sharply , despite the rapid race of her pulse . |
| 14 | What happens when I extend this approach from myself , as I am here and now , to other persons , places and times ? |
| 15 | For the chinless chap in his chalk-stripe blue suit , strolling to wherever he performs the daily ritual of being ‘ something in the City ’ , or the geezer negotiating the early morning traffic in from Romford in his late model Ford and Italian sweatshirt , their individual style says clearly : I am here and this is where I want to be , you can tell exactly what and where that is from looking at me . |
| 16 | I say I will use it while I am here and give it back when I go . |
| 17 | I am here and this husband of yours is not . |
| 18 | ‘ Fortunately I am here and therefore I can save you a trip , Bernard . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Well , now that I am here and can have the tale formally , direct from the prior , it 's for me to join him in sending word to the bishop . |
| 20 | I would n't be where I am today if I could n't hold my own in a dog-eat-dog world . |
| 21 | My peers are more tolerant , more willing to accept me for what I am rather than for what I might produce or become in the hierarchy . |
| 22 | His Ford Sierra Cosworth was taken from a hotel car park in Chester on the eve of the event and he said : ‘ I am utterly and totally hacked off . |
| 23 | I see the future , plan the Universe , save mankind ; I am utterly and completely immortal ; I am even male and female . |
| 24 | He got my eyes , not my colouring but he 's fairly blinky is n't he , watching the telly , well I am anyway and |
| 25 | What you must never forget is that I am not and never have been an ethnic of any description , and that I have never found any evidence that justifies any cretinous claim by you , or by any of your co-morons in the sewers of lofty racist Neanderthal , that Eurocentrism warrants any positive attention from those like myself who inherit — and consciously — a civilised tradition and philosophy going back millions of years . |
| 26 | ‘ Obviously not , but I am not and never have been Mrs Smith , and there is nothing to prove differently . ’ |
| 27 | Despite what you seem determined to think , I am not and never have been promiscuous . ’ |
| 28 | I do n't see why he should lie stinking in bed all day when I am up and about . |
| 29 | Suppose that I have a sudden impulse to settle when I retire in the village where I was born ; but reality breaks in , I recognize that I had better remember it not as a nostalgic vision but as I indeed saw it before experiencing the city , admit to myself that it will have changed beyond recognition , try to anticipate living in it not as I am now but as an old man who no longer easily makes new friends , try to see myself through the villagers ' eyes as already a stranger who may no longer deserve a welcome . |
| 30 | I was a bigger rogue then than I am now but Benjamin was as different as chalk from cheese . |