Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] be [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Animals always came first — every book I read was about them . ’ |
| 2 | Which I mean is after something of ten years in which case erm I would have that there 's a thorough investigation so that actual , you know , er progress back it around the town as well as possible , er need money put into it , but I think that that 's what some of these places with , with no hope of a short term bypass need . |
| 3 | I mean being on my own , travelling down here the way that I did . |
| 4 | But , I mean being in their seventies , well he 's eighty now ! |
| 5 | The salesman I approached was in his early forties and begrudgingly admitted that he had a fair knowledge of the wordprocessor we use . |
| 6 | The last thing I want is for them to be used as pawns in political games of chess to suit the personal ambitions of politicians . |
| 7 | ‘ All I want is for him to come here , take Jennifer in his arms and face me . |
| 8 | ‘ All I want is for him to be happy and secure , ’ Vitor assured her , ‘ which he is with you . |
| 9 | Do n't you know that all I want is for you to be happy ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ All I want is for you to be happy , Peachcake . |
| 11 | ‘ What I want is for us to talk long and hard , and now , ’ she declared , and , swivelling on her heel , she marched back into the house . |
| 12 | I would have discovered once I 'd been through it all . |
| 13 | Though I 'd visited the family in Al Ain and Abu Dhabi , it had been two years since I 'd been to their camp on the Gulf . |
| 14 | He I I 'd been to them over a a period of about two years erm with all sorts o of different problems and in the end he said , You know I can increase your drugs but that wo n't help . |
| 15 | If I 'd been of your chosen few , |
| 16 | it was , it was actually there was a programme on television and my husband took me to the doctor and he said he felt I 'd been on it too long , I 'd been on it about six months and when I come off it , I come off it pretty quick and I ended up erm I did n't know what was wrong with me and it ended up I 've now got epilepsy , and they did n't know if it was caused through erm I took a stroke about three four month after that and then I got the epilepsy as well , so they do n't know if that me coming off it |
| 17 | it was , it was actually there was a programme on television and my husband took me to the doctor and he said he felt I 'd been on it too long , I 'd been on it about six months and when I come off it , I come off it pretty quick and I ended up erm I did n't know what was wrong with me and it ended up I 've now got epilepsy , and they did n't know if it was caused through erm I took a stroke about three four month after that and then I got the epilepsy as well , so they do n't know if that me coming off it |
| 18 | ‘ If I 'd been on my feet . |
| 19 | ‘ To be honest if I 'd been on my own I would n't have gone ahead with it , ’ says Avril . |
| 20 | much time if I , If I 'd been on my own . |
| 21 | But it 's all so ironic — if my little tinkering with her inhaler had n't led to her death nobody would have known that Doreen guessed — that I 'd been helping myself to the firm 's cash now and then — only piffling amounts over the years I 'd been with them , a few thousand here and there , just enough for some designer clothes and jewellery . |
| 22 | I 'd been with her for 12 hours at the delivery of her beautiful baby daughter . |
| 23 | And of course a lot of the engineering was on textile machinery and er I did n't , I just would n't go back to it after I 'd been at it about a couple of years . |
| 24 | as I told you before I 'd been like it before and it |
| 25 | And I was with her till I left her somewhere in Southampton , I 'd been in her a good while too . |
| 26 | The water smelled dankly of mud and winter , which I had n't seemed to notice when I 'd been in it . |
| 27 | And if I 'd been in his skin , and seen the power in Dawn 's beak and feet , I do n't think I 'd have done anything either . |
| 28 | ‘ If I 'd been in your shoes I 'd have walked right out on him . ’ |
| 29 | There is in fact such a car outside , but the siren I hear is on my son 's hi-fi in the next room . |
| 30 | ‘ Like I said , I enjoyed being with her , but you would have to be some kind of retard to get turned on in those scenes by thinking I am kissing a sex symbol … |