Example sentences of "be [noun] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are titles I cherish and do not intend to give up easily . |
| 2 | There are times we dream you back to being |
| 3 | I tell you , Rose , there are times I wish Araminta had married Quatt , and welcome . ’ |
| 4 | ’ There are times you do n't agree in football . |
| 5 | Her hands are claws she keeps concealed within her rags and tatters . |
| 6 | There are rules we have to keep . |
| 7 | And because they , too , are prisoners they detest the convicts , and their children ape their elders and shout ‘ Fascists ! ’ as the zeks walk in their guarded column between the Zone and the Factory . |
| 8 | There 's also a general view in the community that community care itself is not necessarily really working very well , there 's some fears about it , some uncertainties and a member did mention , it may have been Jim you know or somebody mentioned about the seven hours domiciliary , from my experience as a councillor I am not sure that simply because that figure exists that that means that that is satisfying the need of those people and in any case the sort of people who need to go into residential care , who can no longer be maintained in their home , with whatever help we give them or with whatever help their family have to give them they 're not necessarily the sort of people who we 're talking about need to go in a home . |
| 9 | As many of our readers are non-members we have included a page ‘ What is the NCT ’ . |
| 10 | But at the end of the day they are n't in that league cos most thieves are opportunists they seize a common opportunity that is presented to them by or it could be they 've actually just watched her go out and more of a chance . |
| 11 | ‘ These are words I 've not used for five years . ’ |
| 12 | There you are David I bet you picked one up in your |
| 13 | There are voices you turn to as a friend , and you do n't just turn your back on your friends if they go off the rails . |
| 14 | ‘ Those are areas we hope to address this year , ’ said health authority chief executive , Brian Jones . |
| 15 | And she said erm where they have their big discos in the universities er you know , about two thousand five hundred of them come round of course they 've got fire alarm systems there , then she said you get the underground so called Mafia , whatever you like to call them she said , they are chaps she said in their thirties , and forties , arrive in shiny big white and red Porsches this that and the other and deliberately , cos they 're club owners |
| 16 | I must admit however that there are texts I used frequently with girls which I have not chosen to read with a mixed class , feeling that they would not attract the attention of the boys . |
| 17 | he 'll eat raw carrot and things like that but otherwise the only vegetables he 'll eat are potatoes he eats |
| 18 | and when you 're kids they seemed so big ! |
| 19 | He had a limp , he had a false leg , and of course , when you 're kids it strikes you as very funny to have a woodwork teacher with a wooden leg , so he 'd say , ‘ What shall we make today , kids ? ’ and we 'd go ‘ Want another leg , sir ? ’ and things like that . |
| 20 | Now we all know because we 're print buyers to a larger or greater degree but they 're clients they over-estimate they add about twenty five per cent more on than they need and you have to send them back to sharpen their pencils several times before you 've seen the estimate , they of course know that all print buyers are idiots who keep forgetting all the important things and do n't give them half the information they need like the weight of paper or the fact that there 's to be a pocket at the back so , I think if we got the man I think if we maybe started off with H M S O the print buyer which is more akin to what we are and say well you know these are the problems I 've got I 'm sitting with a six million pound budget buying for the whole of the government of Scotland and I have problems and these are the problems that I have , then we get to the wee man from who says now wait a minute boys I get the rubbish that you send out , that was the message and let's make it funny but slightly aggressive let's highlight the real problems because that 's what it 's about , we 're not here for a nice night we 're here to learn |
| 21 | There are games in our region and as you rightly say they 're great for us but er I would n't say that they 're Derbies I mean the Derbies are are Birmingham West Brom and West Brom |
| 22 | They 're plants I thought |
| 23 | But they do n't speak any English , I do n't speak any Arabic , so I 'm gesturing away about the bar-tailed lark and not being able to go into the forbidden zone , and somehow or other the leader understands what I 'm going on about and makes me understand that because they 're nomads they do n't have to follow international boundaries . |
| 24 | If they were working they 'd be going to discos , but because they ca n't work they stay at home , and because they 're girls they do the housework , though they feel they are doing somebody else 's housework . |
| 25 | ‘ Knocking Leeds United is n't exactly new , and now that we 're champions I suppose we 'll have to put up with it all the more . ’ |
| 26 | Oh they 're diggers I think they 're diggers . |
| 27 | They 're strippers you know . |
| 28 | When you 're vice-president you have a lot more spare time . ’ |
| 29 | But they 're , I do n't think they 're seconds I think they 're over makes . |
| 30 | NO CRIME PLEASE , WE 'RE IOFCs It has been estimated that half the world 's financial transactions by value involve an offshore centre directly or indirectly . |