Example sentences of "[pron] [coord] [det] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think I 'm suspect numero uno any more ; I think McDunn at least believes me and that 's enough for now . |
| 2 | They they tended to say the same thing as the government , erm but recently Tory motions , in this council , have started to say the opposite of the government f for reasons which remain obscure to me and this is just another example . |
| 3 | We 've got to recognise , if there was no following policy , any thief or drunk driver only has to put their toe down and drive away at speed , comfortable that police wo n't follow them and that is far more dangerous in the long run for the public . |
| 4 | I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way . |
| 5 | That 's why the workers ' weekly pennies went to pay men like Bobby to speak for them and that 's just what Bobby Keith could do best . |
| 6 | Boeing had done their best to keep tabs on which aircraft had been sold to whom but some were no longer in service or had been damaged and discarded while one or two had even lost their identity , so that it was difficult to trace where they were and under whose jurisdiction they fell . |
| 7 | Except , more often than not , the Second Mrs Tanqueray reveals herself to be a carbon-copy of the first one in almost every way but one and that 's only until the new Tanqueray brood arrives , whereupon Lothario takes to ringing up the first Mrs T to say ‘ Where did we go wrong ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ My husband said that if we got 50 per cent back it would be something but this is very good news , ’ said Mrs Lee . |
| 9 | She went along the landing and down the staircase , still in a waking dream , crossing the hall and seeing Penman there , waiting to open the drawing-room door for her , as if it was someone she was watching perform , not herself but another being altogether . |
| 10 | Eventually he bent over and told the Head Girl to kick him ; she was amazed but she did so — just stepped forward and kicked him and that was exactly the step he wanted . |
| 11 | They were all worse-looking and less refined than him and some were revoltingly overweight . |
| 12 | While the forge is always warm and inside is the loving , childlike Joe who has goodness all around him and this is particularly shown when he looks after Pip when he has a fever and the power of that scene . |
| 13 | You see , it was n't just a case of loving her and that was all there was to it , that might be very nice to know that God loves me , but I , there 's a sense in , I want to know what that love produces . |
| 14 | And , as this post here , with , whatever it is , it looks as if it 's got some paddings on the ground , maybe a , a boat sometimes gets moored up to it and that 's just to stop the boat er banging up agai maybe the tide comes in that far , I do n't know . |
| 15 | The circulation is erm is has grown every year we 've had it and that 's very important because erm a lot of the subscrip a lot of the circulation of Les Echo is in fact a subscription in advance such it 's cash generating qualities are high even when the profits are down . |
| 16 | It is , above all , something where you have to be utterly precise and there 's no warm up , you just go out there and do it and that 's very challenging . |
| 17 | I told her I had a job for Duncan and there was money in it and that was enough for her to yell ‘ Duncan ! ’ so loud I felt I heard it without the need of the phone . |
| 18 | They do n't want to do it and some are even having to leave the N H S as a whole . |
| 19 | I did n't fancy it but that was quite good . |
| 20 | Careful attention has been paid to the arrangement of the objects themselves and this is further emphasised by sharp tonal contrasts , in which the artist delights . |
| 21 | Yeah , I mean I I do n't know what what but that 's obviously by the look of it . |
| 22 | In Halling there are a great number of these nicknames handed down to us and some are still used to this day . |