Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If all the blokes I knew were like you then I 'd be better off with another girl , would n't I ? ’ she said scornfully . |
| 2 | Now I do this sir , because last week in the council of Christian and Jews in Edinburgh we had one of the profoundest meetings I 've been at , in which very distinguished people , Jews and er er Christians were concerned with the fact that anti-semitism , at the very bottom , is anti-God , it opposed to revelation . |
| 3 | ‘ Funny I 've never seen it before , the times I 've been in your Gran 's house , ’ he said . |
| 4 | he wo n't let them talk , it 's disgusting , I tell ya , you know , no end of times I 've been in there and it 's obvious we 're waiting for chips |
| 5 | My final comment is that loadings on the Central Wales line seem fairly light at present , judging by the two or three times I have been on it lately . |
| 6 | All the doctors , psychiatrists and groups I 'd been to so far for help had made me feel worse than ever : could she be any different ? |
| 7 | None of my friends have children and all the mother-and-toddler groups I have been to are full of older mums . |
| 8 | and it being full of , of animals , most of them nasty animals , that would frighten you , like snakes and squirrels , I do n't know why squirrels , and , and like I had a picture in my mind , I ca n't remember whether it was the swimming baths I 'd been to , or whatever , like you know how they , quite often they have little ramps , or maybe they do n't , but the ones I 'd been to had ramps , stairs going up to them or whatever , |
| 9 | and twice in the last nine months I 've been in the United States and I was amazed at the number of very large women |
| 10 | Nine years and two months I 've been in love with Chris . ’ |
| 11 | It was the first time we had managed to get eight aircraft into the air in one formation in the nearly two months I had been on the island . |
| 12 | And all thanks I got was to be sacked at end of summer — though only for a few months , that is , 'cos of the revolution . |
| 13 | One of the happiest parties I have been to for a long while was the one at Claridge 's given by Mr and Mrs John Newman , to celebrate the marriage of their daughter Miss Henrietta Newman to the Earl of Caledon , son of the late Earl of Caledon and the late Mrs Denis Alexander . |
| 14 | The only parties she attends are in a business capacity … ’ |
| 15 | So the pictures you see are like it sometimes happens . |
| 16 | It was ironical that the man she had just rebuked should be the only one who had shown interest in her as a woman during the fifteen months she had been on the station . |
| 17 | And then she 's been average on the last three or four months she 's been on eight stone . |
| 18 | At the other Delhi parties we had been to — mostly boring official events — it had been a struggle to avoid getting cornered by some grey under-secretary from the Ministry of Fertilizer Distribution . |
| 19 | The descriptions of them in the books we read are for the most part as unlike the truth as are the descriptions of aristocratic life in the books they read . |
| 20 | The Whitehall canteens your clubs any restaurants we 've been in … ’ |
| 21 | What parties they 'd been to when they were young , and Tom Reynard was holding court for his friends and their children . |
| 22 | The funds they receive are for specific services — hence the term ‘ fund accounting ’ . |
| 23 | Writers and the books they produced were of the same type , full of antiquarian information and the archaic vocabulary that went with it . |
| 24 | Some people defend television by pointing out that , though children read less as they grow older , the actual number of books they read is on the increase . |
| 25 | Whereas libertarian historians have devoted relatively little attention to this question , for the traditional liberal and Soviet schools it has been of vital importance . |
| 26 | He told me that during the nine months he had been at the farm he and the others had noticed that the landscape had changed . |
| 27 | There was something decidedly odd about the engineering master ; his manner was always friendly , but , in the six months he had been at the school , Robert had not exchanged more than a few words with the man . |
| 28 | one man who 's been losing pounds to go on the rally is Ade Jeffries from Gloucester … for the past two months he 's been in the local gym geting fit … he 's lost nearly two stone … |
| 29 | The blast has led to concern that the bank might be forced to decamp to another set of temporary premises — its third resting place in the 18 months it has been in existence — although this now seems unlikely . |
| 30 | For the last eight months it has been in use at a $10,000m nuclear reprocessing facility in France with no hiccups , according to US president Jeff Sutherland . |