Example sentences of "be [coord] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The traditional explanation is that all mothers with colicky babies — regardless of what sort of people they are or what else is happening in their lives — suddenly become more confident and relaxed at this point . |
| 2 | Nobody knows who you are or anything else . |
| 3 | Meanwhile conscious awareness is freed to survey the landscape , to plan a route , to talk with fellow cyclists , or to dream on what might have been or what once was . |
| 4 | So you 're feeling relaxed and comfortable and good because you 're telling me , you know , what a great tennis player I am and I really enjoy it , you 've just given me a couple of names that I 'll either make a note of or I 'll say that 's interesting cos I actually deal with Joe on a business relationship anyway erm maybe we could meet some other people from the tennis club , self employed people , professional people such as yourself , who might be interested in looking at financial planning but today I 'm more interested in talking about you Bill , erm we 'll come back to them a bit later if I may so let's press on . |
| 5 | It also has to hinder to recognition of what the needs of the people of the city are and I actually cast out , wipe out services and the needs of central administration which is essential to any council and I would hope that not only my own back this amendment . |
| 6 | ‘ Since I know who you are and you obviously know me , there 's no need for introductions . |
| 7 | I have been but I always go home . |
| 8 | Then one day she came on her own and said right out , ‘ You know something , you can be whatever you are but I still like you . ’ |
| 9 | natural and I 'm and I never was , but I like to know what I 'm voting for and I like to tell the people who I 'm responsible for what they are voting for . |
| 10 | 3. incongruity between what is expected to be and what actually is , or a situation or result showing such incongruity . |
| 11 | But after you reach a certain stage in life — I 'd put it somewhere between forty-five and fifty-five — you suddenly feel you are as secure as you can be and you really ought to give something back to society . |
| 12 | Right , well I 've been waiting since er what is it twelve o'clock this morning , what on earth this question can be and I certainly did n't er come up with this possible , erm all I can say is that I have always got on extremely well with Tony and . |
| 13 | The actual quality in the , in the er print the sharpness , er that sort of thing , is perhaps not quite as good as it should be but I still , an eight for that one . |
| 14 | he knew what the odds were and everyone else did n't . |
| 15 | I mean , I think it 's and they really are nice ! |
| 16 | For there is a vast gap between what businessmen think their cost of capital is and what most finance theorists say it is . |
| 17 | This property of superposability both enshrines the pure mathematician 's abstract concept of what a vector space is and it also provides the perfect way in which to mirror the nature of quantum mechanical states . |
| 18 | ‘ I tell you , I do n't know who he is and I never saw him . ’ |
| 19 | The fear that the encounter might have been handled incompetently is concealed in dismissive remarks about this type of work , about it not bring their job , as well as critical comments on the members of the public who think it is and who therefore make unrealistic demands on them . |
| 20 | I , I said to Neil I do n't , I see how dad is and she just said she felt told you have . |
| 21 | no hope we do n't lose it on that Tim , it 's got all my money in at the moment , it 's a really good one is n't it , we 're really enjoying it at the moment does n't what number it is but we just , what do we do with this ? |
| 22 | Well er coffee is but nothing else is . |
| 23 | I 've normally caught a train that 's gone thro straight through , there used to wo I do n't know whether there still is but there always used to be one . |
| 24 | Where photography is involved-and it usually is-it is even more important to get the style right . |
| 25 | ‘ I could n't help notice how pretty , charming and intelligent she was and we just clicked . |
| 26 | To begin with er I could n't find the light switch because my , my gaze was directed er at the people in the bed but then er I asked the man in the bed , where was the light switch and er he helped me back towards the area where the switch was and we eventually succeeded in getting the light on . |
| 27 | They somehow managed to persuade the owners , apparently it was and it was and nobody else had ever been allowed in this place not even erm historians who write about famous buildings , even they had been refused access ! |
| 28 | She knew where the track was and she also knew where the main road joined it . |
| 29 | A few people ran round to see how she was and he just stood at the window watching with a shotgun . ’ |
| 30 | A few people ran round to see how she was and he just stood at the window watching with a shotgun . ’ |