Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] be [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Even when they 're in England you get used to them not being there because of the matches they play for their county . ’ |
| 2 | They were prepared to compromise because they I 'm sure that you know you ca n't imagine them not being really but because they 're such erm they were outraged at this machine but they were prepared to give it a try but the way it was bulldozed through that once the machine was there there was no choice then and almost you know get going boys get more and more and more slate you know greed they felt the employer was being greedy at the expense of quality . |
| 3 | Under such circumstances it was normally assumed that , although the Monarch would probably seek advice in order to discover what persons would be acceptable to the party in power , yet for the final choice she alone was morally and constitutionally responsible . |
| 4 | oh well , she probably be there cos she 's , she 's got flu . |
| 5 | She really was more than half-minded to take them downstairs again and post them through the hole in the mahogany skirting board of the dining-room where they could lie in wait for crumbs of bread and cheese and apple peels that she would be careful to drop … |
| 6 | So that the erm we really are again and this is what this diagram in Freud 's book is supposed to illustrate that the , the erm every every individual ego has its own ego ideal and objects external objects like erm say the Pope can become the focus of this erm individualistic narcissistic libido because every individual identifies the Pope with their own ego ideal . |
| 7 | Or , if we prefer it , we may say the physical body as it is described by the anatomist is the more ghostly thing , a phantasy of cells and cell assemblies , a convenient way of talking about ourselves and that we really are more or less what we feel ourselves to be . ’ |
| 8 | So in other words is our F T E consistent with where we actually are rather than where we thought we 'd be erm or have we got erm you know er the Parkinson 's law , been operating with the , the overtime , people are used to doing it and therefore they keep doing it and so on . |
| 9 | In particular , what hours would be applicable to children and should they only be there if they are eating a meal or snack ? |
| 10 | But a confrontation with him now was more than Lisa could handle . |
| 11 | The Stephen They 're not all I mean I 'm saying that 's right but that some of them there are more than one answer to . |
| 12 | And so she settled down quietly into our family life for over a year , until one of the aunts , Aunt Kate , came to see us , and after that there was talk between our parents — children always know these things , having good ears — about it perhaps being best now for Grandma to be going back to her little house in Hampshire . |
| 13 | There is a marked reluctance to arguing why people should be accorded such rights — " It just is so and things work better if you accept it — racism for example causes instability and prejudice and violence , so it must go " . |
| 14 | Is it just been recently that you 've started to get involved ? |
| 15 | Whatever the justification there may have been in the past , when a high degree of ability may have been necessary to acquire and work at the trade , that reason has forever passed away if it ever was more than a trade gild superstition . |
| 16 | Well I do it probably was actually but it was the switch that had gone , maybe lightning had hopped across the switch , yeah , but erm , that 's all it was it was the switch , but er , I mean the thing is it went wrong and they had to pay for it , okay it 's only a tenner to have it done , but it , if a C D player , I mean if the carriage goes , you know , sixty , seventy quid , you know I 'm buying these electrical things , it 's , because it 's a burg lock , I can buy them , get them a warranty with it an'all , then it 's took the burden off them . |
| 17 | ‘ It really is physically and mathematically impossible , ’ continues Professor James , ‘ to work out the implications of my needs whenever I go into a supermarket unless I happen to know my metabolic rate , what it means in terms of my food needs and how to calculate this information so that I can select the correct diet . ’ |
| 18 | To where it really is quite and peaceful . |
| 19 | Had it really been less than a month ago ? |
| 20 | Again , men like John Clifford or Silvester Horne , active in Liberal politics , saw their preaching labelled as more ‘ social ’ than it actually was precisely because of their political work . |
| 21 | For twenty years , while he turned the porn shop of sports into international theatre , attention was paid in a way it never was before or has been since . |