Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [det] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am many things , señor . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been told I was many things in my life , but too hasty … |
| 3 | She is all things to all people because everyday folk easily identify with her . |
| 4 | Plans evolved for new trains for the 1990s Channel Tunnel workings between British provincial centres and Paris , Brussels , and beyond being formed into eighteen coach trains with a power car at each end like an extended electric version of the InterCity 125 diesels , but with the capability to split into nine-coach trains push-pull style with a single power car , perhaps they are all things to all men . |
| 5 | Right , so they are these things known as data processing specification ? |
| 6 | They 're all things that have been found in York . |
| 7 | You know they 're all things that you , they d expect you to know . |
| 8 | And the encouraging thing was that they 're all things that a few years ago in the Green Party sort things out they 're all there . |
| 9 | Well I think it 's been awful interesting to see the pictures develop and like they 're so rough at first and they 're and more developed and they 're more things in them and the colours are getting more definite and everything . |
| 10 | They 're those things that uncurl , are n't they ? |
| 11 | Jesus who Himself spoke of ‘ the creation ’ could also have rightly spoken in terms of ‘ my creation ’ for as the apostle Paul wrote ‘ by Him were all things CREATED that are in heaven ( was there evolution in heaven ? ) and that are in earth … all things were CREATED by Him and for Him . ’ |
| 12 | They were all things to which the audience could relate and the more they related the more they laughed — which gave instant satisfaction not just to Charlie Williams and Lou ( who , of course , thought that everything her Ken did was wonderful ) but to Michael Codron , the producer and the young man who wrote it all — Peter Cook . |
| 13 | It 's that thing outside , is n't it ? |
| 14 | They come up to meetings which erm , this goes on to say determine not to miss a single spiritual meal both private study , meeting attendance are urgent for all , there 's nothing new here brothers it 's all things that we 've heard before and this is why sometimes we can sort of nod off because we , we sort of think well I 've heard all this before , follow theocratic ways , procedures and policies not always easy to do , but it can be done , recognizing the organization that Jehovah is using keep awake by finding your place in God 's arrangement that is n't that little corner up there , by the way , we 're not talking about that one , but finding our place where we can work for Jehovah wholeheartedly do not quibble about assignments and arrangements I think we 're all guilty of that at some time are n't we ? |
| 15 | It 's such things that get to your heart . ’ |
| 16 | Right , erm , yes , it 's for adults I think , and it 's such things as Leonard Cheshire Homes , er , and I ca n't thing of any other , |
| 17 | And I 've , I 've done that and it , there 's not one thing you can point to and say there 's no one in here because it 's several things , altogether , that indicate it , it might have been there 's no car on the drive , there might 've been , there might 've been milk still out . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , it 's this thing . |
| 19 | You must n't think every time you 're tired or ca n't sleep that it 's this thing starting up again . |
| 20 | Oh it 's this thing ? |
| 21 | it 's this thing about this Lego piece |
| 22 | It 's not Carry it 's this thing we have to she tape conversations for speech therapy . |
| 23 | It 's this thing they 're doing in Norway . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's these things that do it . ’ |
| 25 | It 's these things that have gone for but Richard is very much a child |
| 26 | Well it 's those things that we would like to have decision making in these matters , and let's face it Norfolk County Council or the Highway Authority and Breckland are the people of the |
| 27 | It 's same thing , same man . |
| 28 | But that is the same it 's same thing though . |
| 29 | ‘ One can have a great concern for the people of Ethiopia , bit it 's another thing to inflict daily torture on the people of England . |
| 30 | It 's another thing people tend to make crass comments about , or crass assumptions anyway . |