Example sentences of "[pron] be [noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I love it when a plan does n't work how dry I am , how dry I am , nobody knows how dry I am will you get me whisky for me ? |
| 2 | Anyway , what I 'm askin' you to do now is to get on your feet and go and get me a drop of gin and a couple of pints of beer . ’ |
| 3 | I 'm doubtfull he 's but unfitt for anything requires attendance ’ . |
| 4 | Well cos at er , there were n't enough tide to take it away , I mean you ta you get clay well that 's , that 's solid and the amount of stuff I was dredge they use and use it , now we 're not the only ones got it , they got people from Harwich , people from Felixstowe , they were all dumping out there . |
| 5 | Notable among these is the fact that the mismatch of range is even greater than in the case of the prenominal adjectives ; it is true that one can usually expand a postnominal adjective to a relative clause containing be , though we should certainly note cases like : ( 31 ) he is dreaming of the whisky which will be galore with her arms which were akimbo she stared at Victor food which is aplenty is on sale in the end tent however , there is not the slightest difficulty about producing numerous examples where the relative clause with be is fully satisfactory but can not be reduced to a grammatical postnominal adjective . |
| 6 | Evidence of the Host 's appearance is said to be the red crotal ( lichen ) stain found on rocks the morning after a heavy frost , which is blood they have spilled during their aerial spats . |
| 7 | You 'll provide us with sufficient entries so that the people who are man it get in and car parking . |
| 8 | When you 're vice-president you have a lot more spare time . ’ |
| 9 | and Amy 's cousin Claire and then this girl who 's hair I do |
| 10 | This girl who 's hair I do erm her little girl , Karla cor she 's if I found a little girl to look like her , I 'd have one ! |
| 11 | I squeeze between a pleasant-looking , well-built car repairer called Bob and an enormously furry small-businessman who 's name I fail to ascertain , and we all smile at each other . |
| 12 | You do get some kids though no matter where they are , who 's house they go into that you know , strangers and they , they behave in a sort of a , a wild fashion do n't they ? |
| 13 | A topical one is 'do you think the Government should ratify the Maastrich treaty ? ' |
| 14 | And then erm they eggs would be in this incubator for about a week and then they used to arrange coops for them to go out do you see , we used to fence a field below the mansion , , in the field there , because there was a good in enclosure right round the two drives and then there were shelter you see . |
| 15 | I 'll be telling most some of the tales about that time , and then the other tales will be about what happened to me in sixty nine when I started up , because the changing legislation s more or less said that if you had a vehicle of thirty hundredweight or less you could move an er wh whoever 's furniture you liked anywhere you wanted to . |
| 16 | Yeah but there 's stuff you put on before you got ta paint a certain square amount of area |
| 17 | Oh , there 's kind she 's been ! |
| 18 | There 's work I need to do . ’ |
| 19 | And erm usually if there 's space you ask them to sit just to listen to the introduction and then move on . |
| 20 | ‘ Then if there 's time she wants a ‘ Guess the Weight ’ cake making as well — I 've got to make it look as if it weighs five pounds when it really weighs ten . ’ |
| 21 | There 's paperwork I have to get done at the store before tomorrow . ’ |
| 22 | If there is trouble it seems Jones is inevitably in the middle of it , but he ca n't afford to mix it any more with a six-month suspended ban hanging over him . |
| 23 | There was evidence he did . |
| 24 | Where there was money they played . |
| 25 | The doctors were very keen you know very keen , and if actually if they had to go anywhere when there was trouble you know say you 'd got haemorrhage or anything like that they were supposed to report it you know . |
| 26 | thought it were road he put all four in , and he went down , up |
| 27 | Whether it were coat she had on or not |
| 28 | Oh , I always wonder about that , I never know whether it 's correct I mean it certainly sounds better as you said , she did n't take her hand away , but I always find that when I 'm writing something down , I 'm torn , if it 's dialogue I want to say they did n't , could n't and all things come in . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's Stone he wants , really . |
| 30 | Once you 've put the lid on you get smoke coming out all around the edges , well , actually , it 's steam you know . |