Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] be [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 In this case I am actually drawing with the brush and the colours will merge quite nicely as they are painted wet into wet .
2 This can be proved by comments from the accused to the effect ‘ I carried it to use in case I was ever attacked ’ .
3 With Arnold I was really involved .
4 he 's erm twenty three at the moment , I 've got arthritis , sometimes I 'm in a wheelchair , sometimes I 'm alright , and he says do n't worry mum I 'm there to push you around and I 'm quite heavy !
5 The building I was now working in housed a number of statutory and voluntary social-services organizations .
6 After half an hour I was still waiting , so I gave him an experimental pull and the hook came back minus the barbel .
7 Sometimes erm given me the questions and sometimes answering the questions for me , its always informing me and over the last few years I 've erm , I said that to try and understand erm , how to use this information in my own work as , as a writer , and I see , I see parallels in all forms of art , communication is of course one , erm and the need to recognise and respond the plight of others is , is another area and the area that as a writer I 'm particularly drawn too .
8 I am referring , after all , to a series of very minor errors on my part and the course I am now pursuing is merely a means of pre-empting any ‘ problems ’ before one arises .
9 It is up to each one of us , he wrote , at every point in our lives , to decide how much order and how much disorder , how much discipline and how much freedom we need for the best realization of our project of the moment , even though that project may turn out to be flawed or even utterly mistaken in the short run , of course I am only talking about the short run , he wrote , in the long run , as I have already said , both success and failure are quite without meaning , the notion of meaning is quite without meaning .
10 And of course I was also born almost with the , with one very important advantage , which was that I could speak German erm from birth , as well as English .
11 But of course I was always coming off-duty to find the thing burning away merrily in an empty hut .
12 ‘ Of course I 'm fucking cooking them , ’ Eric said indignantly .
13 The increase in serum pepsinogen I was particularly marked in the renal failure patients with H pylori , with its concentration being double that in the renal patients without the infection .
14 My inclination to reject law as a possible course was incomprehensible to many , and while I was waiting to go to university I was constantly challenged about this .
15 When I read the Epoch literature I am always convinced by it .
16 me as well actually I did one of your tricks Sue I mean we 'd done something I mean is it Li Liz went in and said , and would you like to report Tony on what you 've discussed , and I just spoke he never even got a got chance to say one other sentence I 'm just doing a .
17 It was money I was never expecting .
18 PP : I adored the lute songs , of course , and there are two wonderful duets with Elizabeth , but I think that in many ways in the rest of the part I was wrongly cast .
19 And after working for seven minutes I am already feeling the need for the ingestion of sugar .
20 Right , yesterday on the way to scho , on the way to the bus we had to wait about five minutes I was slowly going see
21 At present I 'm still working like a pianist controlling a small group and that means I constantly have to keep my mind on what 's holding the song together as I play .
22 Might the Mr Chairman I was just wondering if it 's worth just mentioning that the , since the Redhill Airport proposal which does include a privately funded motorway link erm point erm has gone to and has been called in to the determination I believe by the Minister , but er we are sort of pending er holding our horses until that er er is nearer the time is that not perhaps
23 And erm first couple of times I kind of did n't respond , and the next few times I was literally flinching
24 She said nothing to me and after rehearsals I was still standing there ; I 'd done nothing all morning , and she called me into the office .
25 Get her back on or she 's not having this I 'm sorry about that hang on just a minute block your ears I 'm just going to spin round again okay hang on oops er are you their Rachael are you there ?
26 When I arrived at the Palace gates with my invitation card I was somewhat taken aback when two or three in the crowd around the railings recognized me and asked for autographs — in that place of all places !
27 At the moment the economic climate is against artists and it is very difficult to sell anything ; as a result I 'm probably painting less .
28 Then , in a voice that was almost stern , he said , ‘ When I look in your eyes I 'm absolutely lost .
29 At every step I was told not to do it because I was bound to suffer from the kind of prejudice I was always talking about .
30 On one memorable occasion , Mac came to one of the dances and spent a lot of time with me , even escorting me back to the Waaf site afterwards , making intelligent conversation about his home in Canada and shaking hands gravely as he said goodnight — so different from the smash and grab tactics I was usually treated to when trying to bring an evening to a satisfactory close .
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