Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] be [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps I 'm kind of emotionally retarded … but basically I 've just written about things how I 've felt about them , myself , emotionally . |
| 2 | They are but I 'm just I mean y'know it 's cos it 's not really correlation yet so I 'm sort of u that 's why I 've put quotes round association . |
| 3 | for dinner and dinner parties so I 'm sort of frantically trying to cut down , and then , you know , one dinner party and then I put it |
| 4 | Suddenly she was doing for silver-haired women of matronly stature what Joan Collins had done for the middle aged . |
| 5 | So you 're sort of thinking at different levels . |
| 6 | So you 're sort of right in a way that it 's two sine squared X but this wrong . |
| 7 | So you were sort of head to tail ? |
| 8 | ‘ All Ah 'm askin' from ye is the man 's present whereabouts . ’ |
| 9 | Inside she was aflood with seas of flame . |
| 10 | So we 're sort of both playing two sides against the middle . |
| 11 | So we were sort of wondering , you know , where |
| 12 | To that first question , there is the answer that necessarily they are spatio-temporal-things in space and time . |
| 13 | Perhaps they are pests to a lot of people , but we did n't see too many flies around our estate during the hot summer , so they had their uses . |
| 14 | Perhaps they are nighthawks from space ! |
| 15 | Maggie had never bothered to resist their reasoning , and she folded her clothes partly from the natural instinct of obedience , and partly because she had never been entirely sure that these external appendages did indeed belong to her , Maggie Petherington , or if perhaps they were loans from the mysterious outer world ; loans that would doubtless be called in some day . |
| 16 | exam erm exam was double marked with , the question arose as to whether the essay should be double marked , because obviously they are part of the assessment . |
| 17 | We must return to the world , I fear , but first — ’ And he kissed her cheek , so gently that her tears flowed again , only they were tears of joy , not pain . |
| 18 | So they are victims of pressures about looks , too , but in a different way . |
| 19 | So they 're nieces from |
| 20 | In doing so they were part of their time . |
| 21 | You half expect their quiet moments to be a mere ‘ quiet before the storm ’ intro to some Metallica prog-thrash epic about hellspawn putrefaction , but then they meander into Sonic Youth discordant territory , then suddenly it 's walls of sonic bliss , then it 's off into a sample-aided , arse-quaking , ‘ Die asshole muthaf—er ’ industrial rant , then some tedious feedback wanking then … erm , that 's it . |
| 22 | Suddenly it was Bucks under pressure , with Rick Charlesworth performing a series of rescue acts . |
| 23 | Suddenly he was ruler of all the Frankish realms . |
| 24 | Perhaps it 's part of the drink/driving campaign reaching people who ride the sky in a sleigh drawn by reindeer . |
| 25 | There has been no positive response to our representations so perhaps it 's time to be more firm |
| 26 | Not everyone has the same tastes , remember — some people do n't like reading long text messages like those in Nythyhel , but perhaps it 's time for another game with a strong storyline . |
| 27 | Perhaps it 's time for the electorate to call a halt and put the MPs on unemployment benefit to see how they would manage . |
| 28 | Perhaps it 's time for England to try the ploy of getting a recently retired International Player ( Hoddle , Wilkins , Robson — hope not , Keegan or Francis ) . |
| 29 | Perhaps it 's sort of on there yeah . |
| 30 | Or perhaps it 's sort of some dressed up character . |