Example sentences of "[pers pn] [is] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | anyway the girl said well I 'll ring first to see where you get your application form she , and the , Sue phoned and was on the other end and I said oh you should apparently you 've got have erm , er , application form and Mrs going to send you one , I said is that Mrs on the line she said is that Mrs speaking , she said yeah , I said will you tell it 's Mrs she said oh , well , tell Mrs she 's no need to apply I 've got all her details and she is being looked at , you know , we are looking into it anyway erm , as I say I had this letter just after Christmas to say that there was a job coming up at the Mencap at Wellingborough Road , Rushden , and I was being selected and erm would I go up for the informal interview on the Monday and the formal interview at the hospital the next morning , so I went up got the first person there and er she , she , it 's a new , it 's an old house but they 've done it all up and there all papers on the floor and then she said oh I think I 'll pick these up Ir Irene , I said oh call me Joy everybody does and she said alright , OK , I said oh I 'll help you so of course I said , I went straight down with her on the floor picking all these papers up and she , and when the next person come she said poor old Joy ai n't even got in the door and that 's it , she 's already working and she said I can see you 're like me Joy you 'll do a job when you see it 's got ta be done , I said I 've always been the same , I ca n't , I ca n't see a spoon or a bit of paper laying on the floor |
| 2 | She 's probably looked and found she could n't get anything better . |
| 3 | I think she 's right saying that er er watch that off |
| 4 | She 's also told that it 's Grace Poole that slept by the Rochester 's bed . |
| 5 | I think ‘ deconstructing ’ is the right word for Muriel Gray because she 's quite spiky ; she 's very clear about her own views as a Scottish Nationalist and as a feminist ; she 's unconventionally dressed and she did ‘ deconstruct ’ television very effectively , albeit often quite didactically , on The Media Show . |
| 6 | She 's beautifully balanced and incredibly responsive . ’ |
| 7 | She 's terribly spoiled and does n't take easily to strangers . |
| 8 | Only a thousand people a year use it ; but it 's useful if she 's really decamped and you do n't know where she is . |
| 9 | Come on look at her yeah , she 's got a really good figure , she 's not ugly she 's got a good er I mean she 's really tanned and that , they like that and she 's really cocky is n't she and she wo n't take any shit from anyone |
| 10 | My mother had a complaint today , your family 's old feller but she said , whenever you get a better she 's always goes and sees somebody else . |
| 11 | She said she 's always complaining and criticising it 's quite funny though but there you go . |
| 12 | She 's always maintained that her son is not dead . ’ |
| 13 | She 's very withdrawn and working far too long hours , of course . ’ |
| 14 | Yeah , yeah and she 's , yeah , and she says she 's so fed cos to her there 's nothing wrong with her , the baby did put on weight last week , but she said you know , what do you do in here all day . |
| 15 | And there 's not a lot of co-ordination between what she 's currently doing and what the children did last year , or what they will do with another teacher next . |
| 16 | She 's still allowed and as well . |
| 17 | ‘ Emily has a quick temper , ’ Craig said , ‘ but she 's fair minded and she 'll reconsider the situation , I 'm sure . ’ |
| 18 | And she is wholly believed because of that . |
| 19 | She is either lying or crazy , he reasons , believing that Martin was incapable of such alien behaviour . |
| 20 | She is also remembered because she was painted by Velázquez , although this is not unrelated to the family tree . |
| 21 | Nell dies in mid-winter , far from home ; but we all know that she is homeward bound and will see another and better spring : |
| 22 | She is already seated and working with a group of children . |
| 23 | She stands for the civilization of the South , of the Midi , the home of the troubadours , against the sterner , rougher , cruder world of the North , represented , in this image , by her husband , the King of the North Wind , whose authority she is subtly undermining and against whom she will soon break out in open rebellion . |
| 24 | I believe it is possible to propose an explanation for the intuitive feeling one gets that the -ing form would be somewhat inappropriate here : the author is describing a person who is groping for anything which will reassure her before she meets her angry father and the mere fact that she is able to perceive objects which are familiar to her — when she feels so disoriented that she can take nothing for granted — is what gives her the sense that she is neither shirking nor lying . |
| 25 | She is not hurt by what I have said , she thought , she is neither hurt nor angry , she does not understand what I have said , her mind is losing the powers of comprehension and she has no longer an emotional response . |
| 26 | And although he co-produces with Michaela Strachen , she is clearly positioned as his — she 's the bimbo who goes along and enthuses about the dancers , whereas he knows where it 's at musically , because he is , after all , a famous producer — he is the man with the knowledge . |
| 27 | She in turn may hope that in time she will get the caring response she is really seeking and will pursue the pattern . |
| 28 | She is back in the house that she is always remembering and talking endlessly about , she has her precious Miss Cress . |
| 29 | She is there to encourage and to react . |
| 30 | Helping an elderly woman to adjust and to find a new identity is never easy , but it can nearly always be achieved if she is shown that she is still loved and needed , by her family and friends . |