Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [adv] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dickens , Shakespeare , Thackeray , Shaw ; either he was deliberately out to impress , which she reluctantly doubted , or he really was well read . |
| 2 | You know , you and I today are still reaping , are reaping now the result , the benefits of the blessings that God poured upon Naomi . |
| 3 | Custis endorsed this in a reply , ‘ … he is the most takeing faceitious man I have ever met with and I never was so much delighted with a stranger in all my life ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ And I really am most grateful for your errand . ’ |
| 5 | If you are being honest with yourself and with her and you really are terribly pressed for time , you will never be short of concrete reasons to give , and she will find these much more acceptable and less hurtful than vague excuses , provided , of course , that your overall treatment of her is one of care and not neglect . |
| 6 | She had long brown hair and she too was fairly heavily built ; she had the same childlike face , which on her was pretty . |
| 7 | And we really are very pleased to see you th at that erm |
| 8 | Feats as daring as those shown on the frescoes and sealstones are certainly possible and they probably were really performed , but it seems likely that they were carefully choreographed and presented to make them seem as dangerous as possible . |
| 9 | These are also utterances in which saying is doing , and they too are only successful if certain felicity conditions are fulfilled , but , unlike declarations , their related verbs ( vow , arrest , declare , etc. ) are not always actually said . |
| 10 | Robin Page Arnot was right , the women were disenfranchised before nationalisation , and they still are today . |
| 11 | That 's right the tenth replacement depot in Lichfield and they used to come round to Walsall looking for absentees and deserters and they there was actually a shooting match in Street the MPs started firing the guns at these fellas who 'd gone absent without leave , and , but as I understand I remember at the time there was a lot of racism in America then and they , they picked these coloured fellas up and apparently the C O at Lichfield was very much a southern colonel and he was a racist and they used to chain these coloured guys up behind the trucks and make them walk all the way back to Lichfield behind the trucks driving the trucks at walking pace and I understand there was a , a salver , a commemorative salver in the Town Hall to be presented to him , and some an MP in the Council he were looking for this colonel , but as I understand he was court-martialled after the war for racism and so I do n't think he 'd be wanting , wanted to be connected with Walsall any more , so but this was |
| 12 | But they 're from the garden and they really are rather good . |
| 13 | But how can your husband teach at the Academy at the Air Force when the Americans have got their own Air Force and we 've got ours and they really are very different ? |
| 14 | For the future of course , we have now erm negotiated with Eurofighter a rather better arrangement , they 're setting up a joint team , they 're trying to do all the work in one place and they really are now making a lot of progress . |
| 15 | Erm er in my opinion they are a very good tenant and a very good person to work with and they certainly are very cooperative with the cinema . |
| 16 | And they seemed very happy doing it , and they certainly were very muscly |
| 17 | Green was fully qualified to meet the challenge of preparing a new comprehensive and up-to-date map and he also was fully familiar with the whole area . |
| 18 | And it probably is too : the indications are that existing applications tend to stay put , though there is a definite trend for new ones to go wandering . |
| 19 | But whether they thought it was going to be too hard work , and , and it certainly was very hard work . |
| 20 | Well just another appalling slaughter of very innocent people , and it really is quite incredible that the people who carried out these terrible murders said they were doing so as retaliation for similar slaughter of people in the Shankhill Road last week . |
| 21 | er it 's an event held in The Gallery and er we have got er ski experts coming er , equipment people ; we have got the latest ski simulator coming down from Dorset , which enables people to actually get inside and it takes you down the Val de Zere er no , yes , takes you down the Val de Zere downhill and it really is quite impressive . |
| 22 | And it really is very localized but that is quite angry , it 's bubbly too and spreading , little finger . |
| 23 | Gilkes is content enough with the Sparc market that his firm has to itself at the present , though he admits that the company is looking at other , unspecified RISC architectures , and it really is only just little more than co-incidence that Tadpole 's US office is just down the street from where IBM/Motorola Inc 's PowerPC RISC efforts are concentrated . |
| 24 | M M My Lords , erm on the second point my Noble Friend makes , that 's absolutely true and it really was again quite depressing to see that erm er a member in in in the and the other place Mr Don Foster on behalf of the Liberals , had actually written to every single Chief Education Officer er concerning anti er concerning campaigning against er the opting out policy , as to the other point my Noble Friend makes , it 's absolutely true that erm all the service that have been done and there 's one very recently reported , that the amount of value for money o obtained for every single grant maintained school outstrips the L E A maintained schools . |
| 25 | and it really was pretty much like that when I had it , so eh , it 's probably a bit more rounded than it was . |
| 26 | This is where the future lies however you have to deal with the particular problems of Maastricht and all the rest and on this side , and it really was very moving that , in a way by chance , but you know again I believe I think sometimes God is in you better of course |
| 27 | And it really was quite interesting . |
| 28 | And it really was quite out of place ! |
| 29 | I do n't want to get over-emotional about this but I really am massively proud of the things that The Smiths have done and achieved and from that point of view , of course , it 's all really sad … |
| 30 | Remembering the turtle soup , Alexandra said in confusion , ‘ I 'm — so sorry but — but I really am dreadfully hungry . ’ |