Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | YOU ca n't enjoy good beer if the pubs that serve them are badly run or have been modernised in a vulgar and insensitive fashion . |
| 2 | Most of them are locally based and each is responsible for a group of schools or colleges ; they are under seven divisional inspectors . |
| 3 | Most of them are then shipped as is , for us to struggle with . |
| 4 | I am also assuming that you will be with us on Thursday 8 and Friday 9 June . |
| 5 | ‘ I am just hoping and praying he is not going to be used as a human shield . |
| 6 | I am not saying that unpleasantly : I am just recognising that there is a philosophical divide between us . |
| 7 | I am just saying that we have no other alternative . |
| 8 | ‘ I am here to listen and learn , my Lord Chairman , ’ she said in her clear and authoritative voice . |
| 9 | ‘ I am here to ensure that the laws of the land are obeyed . ’ |
| 10 | I am immensely gratified that those who participate in the activities of co-operation between the RUC and Garda Siochana say that the quality of co-operation is at its highest point for 30 years . |
| 11 | Large numbers leave school without being able to read or write properly , as many employers will testify , and as I am regularly reminded when younger people come to my constituency surgery and are unable to write out their names and addresses . |
| 12 | I am reliably assured that King 's College Chapel in Cambridge , which has stood as steady as a rock for the past 450 years , could never be built today because the design would never be accepted under the safety limits of the building regulations ! |
| 13 | Navy blue high-heeled shoes and earrings completed the ensemble and I am reliably informed that the skirt was the ‘ new length ’ , i.e. above the knee . |
| 14 | I am reliably informed that the mighty Australian earns 10 million dollars a year and that while he chooses to live in America , he buys his snooker cue and table in England because the English , apparently , still produce the best in that line . |
| 15 | ‘ And I am reliably informed that makes him dependable , trustworthy — and loyal unto death ! ’ |
| 16 | I AM reliably told that the AUSTRALIAN RUGBY UNION has eventually accepted the tour itinerary of Ireland and Wales as initially suggested . |
| 17 | Now , I am sadly lacking when it comes to corresponding , but that time I did manage to write and thank her , adding that she would always be welcome to come and call if she ever was in the area . |
| 18 | I am repeatedly told that all the fuss is being caused by a vociferous minority of licensees . |
| 19 | If you have gained the impression that you are dealing with a balding manic-depressive axe-wielding lunatic , then I must hasten to add that I am generally regarded as a bit eccentric but quite harmless by my neighbours ! |
| 20 | I am simply denying that God ( whatever we may mean by God ) could be of such a kind that God could intervene in human history , or be revealed through particular events in history , or through a particular person , in a way in which God is not potentially present to us in and through all acts and persons . |
| 21 | I am simply arguing that Brooke-Rose 's analyses point toward her later use of what she herself describes as ‘ metaphor ’ at the level of discourse . |
| 22 | I bear this in mind for my next visit and reflect that I am already learning and making mental notes about this hitherto unfished — by me at any rate — stretch of river . |
| 23 | I think you will destroy them ; you are a ruthless woman ; how ruthless I am yet to know and am just beginning to discern . |
| 24 | I am neither condoning nor criticising all these changes but it is vital that we do something to counteract this decrease in activity . |
| 25 | I am equally persuaded that the development of certain ‘ genres ’ of art ( the drama with the ancient Greeks , or the novel , with Dostoyevsky or Joyce ) have opened up possibilities which certainly did not exist earlier . |
| 26 | ‘ As of Friday last , I am without house or home — and I never felt better . ’ |
| 27 | If they do n't respond I will say the next letter will be , okay I am now resigning and your car and your stock wo n't be returned to you er but I 'm holding them in lieu . |
| 28 | I am now installed and with a maid-of-all-work with me named Maria . |
| 29 | I 'm talking about saving human life governments over the last twenty years , troops over the last twenty years , policemen over the last twenty years , laws over the last twenty years , and politicians , including myself , have all failed in all the efforts that we 've made including condemnation of violence , everything , but I am now saying that this dialogue is the best hope I 've seen or , surely I 'm entitled to say to the Prime Minister , alright given that I have said that why do n't you put me to the test ? |
| 30 | ‘ I am now told that he 's hawking her story around for a six-figure sum , ’ he writes in the 100,000-circulation journal , which is read mainly by journalists , stock-brokers and media personalities . |