Example sentences of "and [pron] be [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My wife is travelling without a maid or nurse and I am of little use in a sickroom . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ But just between you and me and SHE magazine , her Majesty and I are like that , ‘ said Dame Edna , indicating a royal chumminess that went beyond mere Commonwealth ties . |
| 3 | So I was completely depressed for a week and then Cher 's album came out and I 'm on that ! |
| 4 | I mean , I do the same thing , I get home at night and I 'm like this ! |
| 5 | Benn is a stereotype fighter and I 'm against that . |
| 6 | And , and I 'm against any Trust status which they tend to , to go because I believe that the beginning of our campaign that because was talking last year about Trust status it did alienate a lot of people against and said , why should we bother fighting for a hospital what would go Trust anyway . |
| 7 | ‘ Heinrich and I were with each other all the time . |
| 8 | And that was the only time that I 've fired a rifle cos , well actually I went got , rose to a corporal I was a corporal when they finished and erm I was in er made cor lance corporal and then I was er with a heavy Vickers machine gun , that 's the one with the has water cooled casing on it the big heavy one you see , and I was with that , that team . |
| 9 | And er of course as I tell you , I finished when I was thirteen years old and I was on this er bottle washing stunt and o one chap as lived next door to us , back at er at Road he got me his this job on the farm . |
| 10 | Now I have been in this business for a long time , and I was at that conference , and I have to say that I had forgotten the resolution until I was reading things again in preparing for this talk . |
| 11 | And I was at that time a married man with two children . |
| 12 | I used to take them every day and I was like that right , and then what I used to do on a Sunday I would n't take one cos I used to think right I like my Sunday dinner and I will never give up my Sunday dinner when I 'm dieting right |
| 13 | Look at that time my dad did that lady over there and left me on the phone and told me to stay there and I was like that . |
| 14 | and I was like this driving along the road . |
| 15 | And I was in all the evening . ’ |
| 16 | Er , you know , well of course they were young girls and er , you see and there 's , there was nothing we could do , you see , and , and er , anyway the doctor , as soon as the doctor did come , it was because th the young staff er they had to , they took her away to the mortuary , you see and erm then I , I had to carry on with her work and , and do the best I could and mine as well , you see , but of course er the Manager he appointed another Assistant Manager to go and collect the money which I used to do got it in because I took her times of duty as well and er , you see , and then after that er after several weeks I suppose it was , I do n't know how many because I forget how many , that they appointed me as Manageress and I was in that position for twelve years , you see and |
| 17 | I dyed my hair every colour under the sun , and I was in this all-women band , we wore lots and lots of make-up and these really baggy dresses in wild colours , which covered our whole bodies — we all dressed the same . |
| 18 | Instead what we have before us is a German triumph that could not have happened without Gorbachev and Walesa , a triumph that was not planned and which is in many ways an accident , but which nevertheless has come about because both West and East Germans have seized the moment of national opportunity . |
| 19 | To take the case of religious education first : in a society that is increasingly mixed in terms of religion and culture and which is in any case predominantly secular , compulsory RE seems an anachronism . |
| 20 | ‘ By the time the weary reader has plodded that far , it will be clear even to the uninitiated that writing this book was a labour of hate — for reasons reviewers can not be expected to discern and which are in any case of small interest . |
| 21 | The less critical saw a city which was indeed made for pleasure — though as always it did not pay to be poor — and which was above all beautiful . |
| 22 | It was believed that this intervention would be aided if the state had control of certain key industries ( eg coal , railways , gas , electricity distribution ) , which were crucial to post-war economic recovery and which were in such a rundown state that it was unlikely that sufficient private capital would materialise to rejuvenate them . |
| 23 | And you was in these top rooms with the the stoves , but erm they had gas stoves , under the irons . |
| 24 | I was like she was sitting next to me and you were like all trying to move me up and think |
| 25 | ‘ THIS is an ideas battle … not every one of these things can be distilled into politics — you know , who 's for this and who 's for that , and if this person is for this , somebody else has to be for that . |
| 26 | And who 's in that ? |
| 27 | right , and who 's against that ? |
| 28 | In 1927 and 1928 , therefore , were planted the seeds of a cultural conflict between a first generation of intellectuals who had , like Barbusse , joined the party as a reaction to the sickening personal experiences of the First World War and who were above all else humanist and pacifist , and a younger second generation of Surrealists and Marxists who were more in tune with the sectarian Bolshevism advocated by Moscow . |
| 29 | For it became increasingly obvious that it did not , as had been intended , miraculously detect native intelligence in children however uneducated , but , on the contrary , was strongly biased in favour of middle-class children who had larger vocabularies than their working-class contemporaries , and who were in any case accustomed to tests and examinations . |
| 30 | she gets out of bed and she 's like this |