Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] be [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To show you how grateful I am to you , I 'm offering to explain how to make it — then you will be able to destroy all your enemies ! ’ |
| 2 | I can see how hopelessly unsuitable I am for you ; all I ever do is misunderstand what you say , and weep . |
| 3 | You see how wrong you are about her , hmm ? ’ |
| 4 | For each one I 'd like you to tell me how interested you are in it by choosing an answer from card twenty four . |
| 5 | I 'm very sorry about your cat , about Melusina , I know how fond you were of her , but giving you compensation is out of the question . |
| 6 | You do n't realize how fond she is of you . |
| 7 | For example , if one has found out something about a course , about what 's happening on it , how well the pupils are learning , how interested they are in it and what different members of staff think of its value and so on , then you 've got a certain amount of evidence about it . |
| 8 | My dad would say , Stay well away from them , he was always afraid they were after him for all the taxes he had n't paid . |
| 9 | But we undid the fire door , which was fortunate we were by it and I said look I 'll take you outside the fresh air might revive you . |
| 10 | I remember thinking how typical it was of her that she never thought of being wooed . |
| 11 | It 's astonishing how easy it is for us grown-ups to lose touch with the ability to shake off our responsibilities and inhibitions . |
| 12 | How glad I am for them ! |
| 13 | So she began with praise : — the more I think on it Ellen the more beholden I am to you for how you have cared for Oreste and the more fortunate . |
| 14 | But it quickly became obvious I was in it too . |
| 15 | I am glad it is behind me . ’ |
| 16 | " I 'm glad he 's with us , " said Hazel to Silver . |
| 17 | I think that 's true what Yona says you know it it is Cos you know I the sort of the political people of the town tend to be councillors who are er men mainly and set in their ways and think that because they 've got the label councillor behind you know b front of their name that they 're they are for life you know it 's And they 're sort of respectable inverted commas members of the community and you know and I mean I hope that out of out of all this I mean it 's it 's a shame it has to happen in such a desperate situation you know because I mean none of us can really feel glad that Because to be on strike is I mean each day is is hard I 'm sure for well I mean I can only say because to be close to people on strike it 's quite a unique thing really for me and i you become so involved and close to people and you realize how hard it is for them . |
| 18 | She told herself later that she could n't have been expected to remember what a knife-edge he lived on , how hard it was for him to trust anyone . |
| 19 | Then he said I was too innocent to realise how hard it was for him just to see me for half an hour and a kiss and cuddle . ’ |
| 20 | No one would know how hard it was for her to act the bride she would never be . |
| 21 | By 19 November he had the whole amount , 30 francs , from Theo , and was writing to say how kind and humane it was of him to let him have the ticket money . |
| 22 | " But think how good I am for you . |
| 23 | See how good I am to you ? |
| 24 | ‘ I ca n't tell you how impressed I was by them . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ D' you remember how great she was to us when we were kids ? |
| 26 | The second in command : The chief in awe of his Adviser ( cf " Whale " in " Using Poetry " , Chapter 2 ) , Monarch 's dogsbody , Deputy , go-between : " I ca n't do anything about it , but I 'll tell her how unhappy you are about it . " |
| 27 | She was only sorry that she had demonstrated exactly how vulnerable she was to him . |
| 28 | But I 'll never forget how good she was to me all through the war , took so much off my hands when I just could n't cope . |
| 29 | In fact it was surprising how good they were to us on most of our official visits . |
| 30 | You 've often said yourself how good he is with her , and he has such a reassuring name . ’ |