Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] be [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I , I mean I , okay I 'm only one person , I mean is round the table is there anybody who can say that if |
| 2 | Ooh I , I mean being in a right mess |
| 3 | But I mean being in the water I had no life jacket or anything like that so it was a matter of trying to keep afloat and er kicking off my boots and getting me overalls . |
| 4 | We were both professors at Imperial College in 1956–59 but the impression I got was of a professor somewhat on the Kissinger model — a status symbol for the college , but not an approachable colleague . |
| 5 | I hate being on the Social . |
| 6 | The last thing I want is for the case to be closed . |
| 7 | I 'd been through the trauma of losing a house once before and I knew how demoralizing and degrading it is . |
| 8 | I 'd been over the pub at dinnertime . |
| 9 | This was the first time I 'd been into a prison and a number of things struck me during the day . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd been to a party at Cipriani 's in The Strand which went on all hours . |
| 11 | I 'd been , a few weeks ago I 'd been to a wedding , and it was the most boring |
| 12 | Some days after I 'd been to the supermarket for the week 's shopping I 'd be smashed , there 'd be nothing left . |
| 13 | When she 'd calmed down she asked me if I 'd been to the doctors , and we made arrangements for her to take me down . |
| 14 | Anyway after about a week , all men as been worked in the pits , By the way I 'd been down I 'd been to the . |
| 15 | I , I only took one case on after I was married er and that er that was a maternity case I 'd been to the first baby . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd been to the leisure centre , just across the road . |
| 17 | I was watching for him erm I 'd been to the loo and I glanced out the er landing window and I thought it looked too tall for you . |
| 18 | I , I had this dream the other night , and it was so real , I thought I 'd been to the cinema . |
| 19 | I think a lot of it was severe stress and exhaustion : I was 27 years old and I 'd been on the road for about ten years of my life and that band was just so much bigger in people 's minds than it was in reality . |
| 20 | And I wished then I 'd been on the farm , I might tell you ! |
| 21 | ‘ Well , I 'd been on the boat a few minutes when I heard someone pounding along the gangway and going ashore , so I knew I 'd been right . ’ |
| 22 | Well I 'd been on the Menai Suspension Bridge before . |
| 23 | I remember that luncheon with Basil absolutely perfectly , and that I 'd been at the National Gallery or the Tate , and I had a postcard with me of one of those primitive paintings , naïve paintings , of a cricket match they still have postcards of it . |
| 24 | ‘ After I 'd been at the shop roughly eighteen months — that was in August 1914 — the Great War broke out ; and as two of our workmen joined the armed forces I had more or less to be pushed on . |
| 25 | I felt like a Run , so I left my jacket near the Pole I 'd been at the day Diggs had come with the news , and tucked the catapult tightly between my cords and my belt . |
| 26 | I 'd been after a pair for ages . |
| 27 | I 'd been in a light sleep . |
| 28 | It was the first time , too , that I 'd been in a classroom with girls , and I got in with a bad bunch of women . |
| 29 | I think if I 'd been in a Western country I would have had a lot more comeback … |
| 30 | I 'd been in a couple of dreadful films by then — I think I 'd swooned , screamed , kissed the hero … |