Example sentences of "[pers pn] 're [adv] [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 ‘ That you 're already chairman of an international investment bank ! ’ she said bitterly .
2 Everyone will think you 're just part of the furniture . ’
3 Doctors , G Ps , nurses , pharmacists , dentists , they 're all under attack and you 're just part of the effort to try and repel that attack , all the way round .
4 you 're most of the time you 're getting it right cos this is just making the right sort of guess and you 're seeing the sort of When it gets to the awkward ones y you 're just sort of Well maybe it 's that , maybe its something else .
5 Before any line of fiction can gel , starkly contrasted possibilities are introduced : ‘ You 're either part of the plot or part of the counter-plot ’ ( Sukenick 1973 : 1 ) .
6 Well you 're either sort of scraping off the ceiling cos you 're as high as a kite
7 Do you think a lot of people do that , or do you think you 're particularly sort of
8 really I mean what you 're almost sort of presiding over is a sort of steady decline , really , but on the other hand I think some people think if you can make that as erm as sort of dignified as you can and actually give them sort of support when they actually need it ,
9 Eleven to twelve , so you 're really sort of moderate preference , it 's not a , it 's not a strong preference a moderate preference and then the pragmatist again that 's quite high very strong preference is seventeen to twenty and again John edge of that .
10 You 're more sort of , I do n't know , hurt . ’
11 And you 're now Director of South East Arts , having left the Arts Council .
12 " You 're still king of the useless-information department . "
13 You 're still sort of saying I get a discount really , you 're still saying it 's only going to cost me two hundred a year .
14 oh yes it 's the er West Worthing Club and do you have a regular , you know , partner you play with , is it er er a doubles match and who would cos you 're then sort of sounding out whether there 's referral business in that one .
15 Do you find that erm the likes of yourself and your workmates do you have a lot of kind of views in common and things , do you think that you 're maybe kind of the same political persuasions or whatever ?
16 You 'd 've been better off to have been booked in here for a good night 's sleep and then driven up the next day but then you 're virtually sort of getting up there turning round and coming back are n't you ?
17 It 's a good idea , but I do n't really see what you 're actually sort of measuring .
18 We 're both people of the world , equals on the road to folly .
19 We 're also members of the Association of British Travel Agents ( ABTA ) number 68342 ; this guarantees our standards of trading practice .
20 That 's really all we 're doing we 're just sort of counting how many would we have if we have twelve add twelve .
21 yeah yeah we were just , we 're just sort of moving a car length at a time were n't we ?
22 erm erm Brian calls us experts at the beginning of the programme erm everyone listening knows we ca n't all be experts of course on all these things , we 're just sort of amateurishly trying to be sensible on these questions .
23 So we 're actually part of the milky way system , the galaxy ?
24 Now , you , you 're , that 's a subjective feeling , you do n't actually know that there are neurones in your blood sugar level , but you , you certainly know when you need something to eat and it , it 's a kind of subjective feeling and it 's not farfetched in the least to claim that our genes have rigged our brain in that way to do that because obviously we 'd like to have more reproductive success if you know when you 're hungry than when you do n't and it may be that a lot of , in a lot of other ways genes affect our , our behaviour through similar erm effects , that is subjective feelings we have , often of an emotional nature to make us want to do certain things and an an and dislike doing others , and it may be that we , we 're really kind of lumbered with that .
25 Obviously we 're only part of the function of waste disposal and possible recycling .
26 We 're more sort of settled down , matured more , I think .
27 And er we 're now sort of waiting to get serious enough .
28 I am not singing ‘ Take my head and my heart and all my bad habits but by the way I 'm sorry that you have to put up with all that but they 're just part of the package you see . ’
29 They 're just bits of flesh , gee whiz
30 So they 're just examples of attitude gents , which And it 's attitude which causes the problems .
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