Example sentences of "be [adj] [coord] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the er but it ca n't be done on modern alarms now because the bell boxes they use are anti-foam and they probably have two or three alarm |
| 2 | Outside in the street , where she could raise her voice again , she almost shouted at him , telling him he was to stop behaving as if he had been right and she wrong — as if he believed she now shared his views and endorsed his ridiculous maunderings . |
| 3 | Figures are revealing but we also need to know what lies behind them . |
| 4 | Luke may have been popular but he never plucked up courage to get the girl of his dreams . |
| 5 | However , the SFO 's handling of its investigations has hardly been consistent and it already has set a precedent for the Barrowclough report to be published in full . |
| 6 | But is n't it the ignorance of the people because the people are ignorant and they actually do n't know what they 're voting for |
| 7 | I took Gabriel into myself and loved him more than myself and maybe you 're right and I just ca n't let him go , but it 's not like that , Philippa , I swear it , it 's something else , a force — something wonderful if only I were n't so alone with it , something terrible unless I learn to understand it . |
| 8 | We 're profitable but we normally do n't compete with anyone else for getting the work . |
| 9 | I like the bones best because they 're interesting and I never thought people were buried up here . |
| 10 | But though our brains are big , they are not the biggest ; whale and elephant are larger and we only top the scale if you take into account overall body size — our brain is largest relative to our bodies . |
| 11 | Short circuits are fine but they just do n't generate the same interest or the same type of nail biting racing , do they ? |
| 12 | An article on consciousness was cheekily headed , ‘ I am conscious and you probably are , too … ‘ |
| 13 | ‘ A number of the crew are Belgian and we therefore have a Belgian chef on board so that we can offer traditional Belgian fare |
| 14 | As I had to go to Beskett this young woman had not long been married and she always used to ask me to call at her house in Palfrey , cos I used to go on a bike not in a van , on a carrier bike , she used to ask me to call at her house in Palfrey to see if there were any mail from her husband and he was , there sometimes was sometimes there was n't nothing you know that he 'd written and er one day I 'd got back and er she was all in tears and er he , he had been killed in France and I was glad I did n't have to be the harbinger of the times you know she still lives in Palfrey now Mrs yeah . |
| 15 | These games are fascinating and I too have occasionally indulged in the adventures of little plumber Mario courtesy of my son 's console . |
| 16 | The issues here are complicated and I only have space to give a rough indication of where the difficulties lie . |
| 17 | ‘ I am 66 and I really want to retire . |
| 18 | No I 'm sorry but they really were like that when I went to Kent . |
| 19 | I 'm sorry but I just do n't want a relationship right now . |
| 20 | I 'm sorry but I just ca n't support this view , what about pride , team confidence ( just imagine what this victory would do to that — considering , correct me if I 'm wrong , but the 3 sides we have beaten away from home are shit , and we have also been on a crap run recently ) , and not to mention a place in Europe — this is a 2nd place 6 pointer . |
| 21 | I 'm sorry but I just think that is outrageous ! |
| 22 | I 'm sorry but I really ca n't allow you to talk about Square in the middle of a paper on . |
| 23 | Anything less than sixty hectares would be unrealistic and it certainly wo n't allow us any flexibility at all to allocate erm sufficient land as we see it to meet the needs of the resident population , and there would in fact be a shortfall er of employment land provision in our view towards the end of the plan period . |
| 24 | Everyone will be embarrassed and it rarely helps . |
| 25 | This was the first time and it was pressure of work that we have n't done it for you to see it earlier , this is not normal so just forgive this one time and we need n't spend any more thought on it because next time it it going to be different and it always has been different . |
| 26 | Personally , I always avoid fishing the corners of waters : I may be wrong but I simply feel that bream avoid such places . |
| 27 | The arousal I 've always thought that er that you should n't be nervous but you always are but obviously as you 're nervous when you do a whole host of things and nerves as you become more skilled at it go away er and I 'd assume that like most things that the nerves will totally disappear and was somewhat surprised to find out that you 're always aroused |
| 28 | Hence ( see 1.9 ) unc must also be diagonal and it then follows that unc is also diagonal . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm sick but I still think I 've done the right thing . |
| 30 | The story may be apocryphal but it neatly illustrates the role of the catalyst . |