Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] be [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , I 'm sorry I 'm like this . |
| 2 | I want to show you how grateful I am for that . ’ |
| 3 | In passing , I would like to say how grateful I was for this friendly and sympathetic , as well as informative , advice from the Humanist Association . |
| 4 | But then when you do peel them away , whether you can have a potentiality , like the when talked about he talked about either side of his face timeless void that you had to see the limit of it so that you could have erm that that I was in this body and there 's something about this body that I 'm going to go back into the body and then that could differentiate perhaps . |
| 5 | Erm no , I 'm normally I 'm , funny I was over that way last weekend cos er , you know , pop over to the beach and things . |
| 6 | No matter how careful I am with this lead it gets a knot in it . |
| 7 | ‘ THIS ONE 's for all the people in the audience who are gon na talk to me after the show , ’ beams singing Roger Daltrey lookalike Jonti . |
| 8 | ‘ This one 's for all the ladies in the house ! ’ |
| 9 | Whatever the brown one is on this |
| 10 | Tory and Labour were united in supporting Britain 's membership of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism , and look how wrong they were over that . |
| 11 | Er er I 'm afraid they 're about all passed on , now . |
| 12 | She had his attention back , and noticed how good-looking he was with those bright blue eyes and brown skin against the black hair . |
| 13 | ‘ Unless we can think of something really clever , I 'm afraid it 's about all we can do . |
| 14 | ‘ I should have thought anyone with a grain of sensitivity would realise how painful it is for all of us to have this all raked up again . |
| 15 | Most of the other examples cited in Bolinger 's article as adjectives capable only of sense-qualification do not seem to us to be properly so classified either ; if they are felt to be atypical it is for some other reason . |
| 16 | There is also attendance allowance and there are various things like that which are outside this . |
| 17 | How clever I am at these things . |
| 18 | is to be honest she 's of little benefit to my organization . |
| 19 | I ca n't begin to say how supportive she was at that time . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ You must show cookie here how grateful you are for all the trouble she 's taken . ’ |
| 21 | She wanted to show how grateful she was for this second chance . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm glad I was of some use to you , ’ she said , unable to keep an edge of tartness from her voice . |
| 23 | How fine everything was in that first careless year ) . |
| 24 | Not necessarily close friends , but it was amazing how welcome they were in that sea of faces . |
| 25 | PAMELA : I am glad he is in such good company and I wish him joy . |
| 26 | The measures which we can use include indications that the animal is failing to cope with its environment ( with the difficulties which it encounters ) and measures of how hard it is for that individual to cope with the difficulties . |
| 27 | And Dr Neil and Matey — Miss Mates — taught me so much about … life … so much that is useful … and I learned how hard it is for most people to live even halfway decent lives … and now I am home again . ’ |
| 28 | That 's how tight it was at that time o' day ! |
| 29 | ‘ Or more likely he 's at some hotel , waiting to search our luggage before we can proceed . ’ |
| 30 | It would n't have been on the books if I ever seen blatant sectarianism at its worst it 's in that bloody motion . |