Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [verb] be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | fancy the paella he said no problem I make paella so , I mean all of half an hour went by , but we went in and we had paella and then all these people started dancing , they moved the chairs back and they started clapping and singing and dancing and I said is this |
| 2 | I should have been very glad of your society this last year , Maureen has been at the Royal College of Music , and I have been much alone , only for the animal 's company I do n't know what I should have done and poor Mr. Papworth [ a dog ] has been so ill we had to telephone a vet up at 2 a.m. one morning it was a funny night , Jack and I in our dressing gowns in the kitchen trying to comfort Mr. Papworth . |
| 3 | ‘ If you mean drugs , then no , Adam , you 're way off line and you have been all the time — as you 'd realise for yourself if you 'd just open your eyes and see the truth instead of what you want to see . ’ |
| 4 | Oh yes very much so and we 've been these er lots secretaries and presidents and all miners and that they 've been coming up you know and er you had a chat with them and they put us do n't let this happen , do n't let that happen , and make sure that erm you know people do n't suffer and er oh it 's been quite a vast experience for us yeah . |
| 5 | And they 've been such good parents to me . ’ |
| 6 | they 've had they 've been out two days on bikes , borrowed John 's children 's bikes and bikes and they 've been all round |
| 7 | John come to me and he said is that your number ? |
| 8 | There was the usual bawdy banter , of course , and it had been that way ever since she first put on her white apron and began serving behind the counter . |
| 9 | But , city dweller as she had always been , she had been aware of every sound — the gentle lapping noises of the canal against the side of the boat , the small night sounds of birds and other creatures , and it had been some time before weary body and brain relaxed . |
| 10 | Whichever way , she probably had n't given it much thought at the time and it had been some time later when her mother had told her that he had left the country and gone abroad to work . |
| 11 | Jenny gave me a house-warming present of a radio so I 've been able to listen to music while I write — and it 's been such fun ! |
| 12 | And it 's been such a relief to be able to speak about it openly for the first time . |
| 13 | Now the reason why we 've come together and this has been a recent change and it 's been this year , erm is because there are overlaps without going into deep detail , there are overlaps in our work and we were working together as officer 's anyway , but not as well as we should , so what we decided to do was formally integrate the three teams under the same unit , and we do have regular er internal meetings , management team meetings consisting of John , Pete me and Carol and we so we more co-ordinate the work for all the teams much more systema systematically , that we know what everybody 's doing and that way we believe we can use best use of resources we 've got most effectively . |
| 14 | But Nigel took the cloak home with him and it 's been another string to his bow ever since . |
| 15 | And it 's been less than it 's between six weeks and five months has it ? |
| 16 | And it has been that way for five seasons . |
| 17 | Erm but I 've been this is I 've been progressively pricing this account . |
| 18 | Because I could n't find anything under procedures about signing the job descriptions and indeed this persons specification total , I do n't think but I mean is that something like you audit it on , its that I am not clear who should award job specifications . |
| 19 | Now I can see the sense of that , you know , we could probably go to a New York lawyer on a no no win , no pay basis and take action agai an and argue that case , but you know is this what , what really people who 've paid pensions for thirty or forty years should be dealing with , you know . |
| 20 | But they had been few in number . |
| 21 | Something on the 9221s — the 9730 successors , is also likely , but they have been such poor sellers that there is little interest . |
| 22 | In recent years the Employment Department and the Department of Trade and Industry have been responsible for appropriate interventions but they have been more of a fire fighting nature than a sustained development of policy and role — which in any case , has not been the way government departments have tended to behave since they are organised to implement government policy in the immediate rather than long term . |
| 23 | You may have made progress , you may have known times of happiness and fulfilment , but they have been few and far between . |
| 24 | He saw and he cared , but it had been many months since he had counted with her . |
| 25 | But it had been enough to ensure him , at least pictorially , a vicarious immortality . |