Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The saddest story I heard was of a sheriff officer going to a door to collect items that were to be sold at auction . |
| 2 | I , I only took one case on after I was married er and that er that was a maternity case I 'd been to the first baby . |
| 3 | The significant change I think is in the balance of debt between fixed and variable rate , where we took a conscious decision and been working it through to take more advantage of the prospective and er decline , it was prospective earlier in the year er in selling interest rates and the continued low er short-term rates in the United States . |
| 4 | The other difficulty I have is with some of these criteria and their use at a strategic level . |
| 5 | The other difficulty I have is in the er the lower case text which ex attempts to explain what is meant by this particular criterion , the sorts of considerations that will be taken into account . |
| 6 | The only payment I received was for travelling expenses from COHSE . |
| 7 | It started off all in Melior , with the text — the text I think was in Melior or Melior tells me that the text was originally in Melior with ordinary Melior headings , then when it appeared it was Nimrod with Melior bold . |
| 8 | Now whether we would find in our strate if we were to have a strategic sites policy erm whether there 's an issue there that it might let in as it were too much of that kind of land use and not enough of the manufacturing or proper office kind I think is worth kicking around the table . |
| 9 | ‘ Of course I have been through my brother 's documents , household accounts , memoranda and letters . |
| 10 | Up our way , they all give you feedback , like you know , several branches in like , the North , every branch I 've been into , there 's always been positive feedback , and negative and positive . |
| 11 | First good watch I had was for my twenty first , I 've still got , it still goes |
| 12 | The salesman I approached was in his early forties and begrudgingly admitted that he had a fair knowledge of the wordprocessor we use . |
| 13 | and I put them in , and I look in my dictionary , they 're not there of course , cos my dictionary I had is from nineteen forty six |
| 14 | I have looked up my own record over the past six months , and I find that the only courthouse whose closure I approved was in Leicestershire and was precisely 500 yd from a new courthouse costing £8 million which we had erected to take its place . |
| 15 | The piece I did is on one side , and on the other is a piece by The Kronos Quartet , called Different Trains . ’ |
| 16 | The figure I gave was on erm sites which were allocated |
| 17 | During the review I had been to Switzerland where I had seen a compulsory occupational scheme successfully in operation . |
| 18 | She will stay with the man at whose side she has been for years , Secretary of State James Baker . |
| 19 | Apart from a year at Westfield College she has been on the staff of the Department of French at Reading University since 1962 , progressing from Tutorial Assistant to a personal chair as Professor of French . |
| 20 | If they 'd caught her , they 'd have stuck her in Imbrium or somewhere , some institution She 'd been in places like that before That was like death to her There must have been a lot of them caught like that , at the end , |
| 21 | We were all working flat out and the only break we had was on the second Sunday when Isvik was on the slip and the Yard closed . |
| 22 | By and large , the war passed us by in Baldersdale , although we had to go through the business of putting black-out curtains at all the windows , even though all the light we had was from oil lamps . |
| 23 | ‘ He presented this as evidence at our investigation on Thursday and the action we took was as a direct consequence . ’ |
| 24 | The classroom was the warehouse they 'd been in before . |
| 25 | Houses are no longer the gold-plated investment they have been since the war . |
| 26 | worse thinking he 'd been to solicitors but I 'm trying to track down anybody ! |
| 27 | The speed it has is for motorway shunting . |
| 28 | All he knew was that compared with the trollop he had been with the day before , she was like a princess , a very untouchable snow princess seven years older than he , who had recently lost her husband . |
| 29 | Martinho , too , sensing what the rules of disengagement from the deathbed were going to be , allowed them to have their fun , or the priestly hypocrite he 'd been in the jungle — got his kicks out of the spectacle , what he might regard as my just deserts for my equivocal behaviour toward him in those nightmare days . |
| 30 | He was permitted to take his family with him , but the only intellectual companionship he found was among the Catholic missionaries : the local inhabitants remained strangers to him . |