Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] [pers pn] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either it is raining or it is not raining . |
| 2 | David Smith a bookie says there 's money to be won and it 's just as well he managed to eat when he was a youngster … |
| 3 | Well Peter I sa la one night last week oh it was the week before I was going up past and this fella was walking and he was fucking staggering and he was going on the road and Peter 's came back and fucking him . |
| 4 | ‘ People have been approached and we are just waiting to hear now when the contracts are signed and sealed , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 5 | Then she has been infantilised and she is no longer autonomous . |
| 6 | I knew you were committed and I was n't going to interrupt . ’ |
| 7 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 8 | And he obviously did n't know and it was n't public knowledge that it was his wife that was |
| 9 | I do n't know , I do n't know and she 's still really madly in love with Dan or according to Paula . |
| 10 | The symptoms are generally worse the further you fly and they are more marked after eastward flights than those to the west . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm not milling about , I 'm not lurking and I 'm not amassing , ’ Otley said vehemently as Nigel pleaded with him yet again . |
| 12 | A lot of Emo 's gags seem calculated to make you retch and he 's not averse to teasing his audience with routines based on taboo subjects like child abuse and necrophilia . |
| 13 | Okay well do n't worry do n't worry he ca n't you know just think of something though having said that if you look at the role that you played in the group moving towards the chairman 's style , taking over the group perhaps becoming and you were n't a person that sort of took over and forced your views on everybody but you were certainly up there at the front with and listening to people taking information and manipulating everything that you had to fit what was coming in from everybody so that does show Chairman 's skills , Chairman tendencies |
| 14 | James Bond fantasies , you know , when things just appear and you 're just sophisticated and your hair 's in a flip and you look great and you get on your private jet . |
| 15 | On some cases yes because I was always told this man he that used to come and he was so clean looking and that he was a barber . |
| 16 | But we will hear more of this in years to come and it is yet another sign that church planting is on God 's agenda at this time for Britain , for Europe , and for every nation . |
| 17 | People were sitting the main point of the chair is is to enable you to write and it 's actually very satisfactory to write in , it 's just the right height . |
| 18 | erm , one of the er chaps that come to work and he 's always on Corby that 's what David told us |
| 19 | This is possible using RR or Rover SD1 solenoids but as a kit is not available a great deal of experimentation is required to get the system to work and it is virtually impossible to fit to rear door . |
| 20 | It 's evil and forbidden and I 'm not even thinking about it ! |
| 21 | Pick the details you want included and they 're automatically inserted in your document , along with the mailmerge codes . |
| 22 | His wife Eleanor snapped in the summer of 1991 over his affair with widow Georgina Gillan but all bitterness is now forgotten and they are together again . |
| 23 | it 's a tangent it 's just another thing to be aware of er that certain put their exam but it 's along the same thing cos I know what 's happening and they 're not writing G C S E but they 're writing exam entries so many pupils x number of subjects so many passes okay ? |
| 24 | Not a lot was happening and I was really tired so I decided to go to bed . |
| 25 | Yet this is exactly what is happening and it is also happening with the schools in a reactive stance . |
| 26 | Well , I think we should tell national office that this is , you know , this is happening and it 's not on ! |
| 27 | Something was happening and it was so pleasurable she did n't want it to fade . |
| 28 | As I climbed , so the cloud lifted and I was soon able to shed my waterproofs . |
| 29 | But she , she 's asked me to perm it and she 's cancelled and she 's ever so funny with hairdressers sort of thing . |
| 30 | The revenue obtained a huge sum of money which they had no right to demand and they are now hanging on to a very large amount of interest which they have no moral right to retain . |