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Example sentences of "and [pers pn] be [adv] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	The abyss between us and them is even greater , whether or not they are ‘ on our side ’ .
2	‘ Thinking of Miss Henrietta 's children , sir , and them being soon perhaps in want of a true mother . ’
3	Can I just go down the shops , Kelly and me are just going get something ?
4	By then Keenan and me are pretty drunk ; and they keep stealing our bottle from the dressing room , so we 'd go across the street and get another jug .
5	By this time Keenan and me are really drunk and I said , ‘ Well , what are we waiting for ? ’ and we go over .
6	My sister and me are very close , so this woman gave me a giro to go to my sister 's — they took me to the station and put me on the train .
7	Water to you and me is so ordinary .
8	Ken wanted to rake David to this thing on his own and David , being very , very cold — he hates demonstrations of emotion — and me being very Mediterranean , I told him that as far as I was concerned , I did n't give a fuck about his award or seeing him receive it , but I thought it was a bit much that his mother could n't be there because it was a public occasion and it was a time when , without having to speak to her , he could be nice to her , as every mother loves to be there for that kind of thing .
9	We were on a cycling holiday and me being very interested in railways generally , liked looking over old stations .
10	At times when I sensed that the gulf between Jean-Claude and me was so wide as to be almost unbridgeable , I would wonder how it was that our love-making had lost nothing of its fervour .
11	What , what happened was Robert , Rob and me shouted , Robert and me were there and who was it , Helen was there I think as well , his ex girlfriend we were going go on Jon , go on jump and everybody in the pool started it go on Jonathan
12	We require a proper deterrent and I am increasingly of the view that we need some threat of pain and humiliation to purge people of the pseudo-macho personalities that cause the problem .
13	She said : ‘ Everybody else says they are very pleased to be here in fact I am very relieved to be here because another TV station was at my home in Dumfriesshire this morning to try to speak to me and I am thankfully in London so I missed them . ’
14	And it does seem to me that erm the minute you suggest to a Parish Council who has already complained about illegal encampments on roadsides and laybys that there is a good site in their patch , there is an immediate reaction , and I am thoroughly convinced that this reaction is based on a fear that is actually based on ignorance , and that we have to remember that travellers of any description — and I do n't categorise them like Peter does — travellers of any description are human beings .
15	Probably the most interesting object is the open cluster NGC 2244 , round the star 12 Monocerotis ( 5.8 ) ; it is quite easy to locate with binoculars , and I am rather surprised that it is not included in the Messier list .
16	Er , I I I thought it extremely discourteous of Councillor instead of responding to my letter he goes to the press and starts complaining , this does n't seem to me the way to sort out the problem at all and I am equally aware of the problem er and if it only helps me get some facts together then it it will strengthen my arm getting things sorted out .
17	By my husband 's will , and the custom of his house , all his manor and lands go to his nephew and heir , and I am without purpose in the household longer .
18	I 'll tell you , Crilly , about my first trip to Scotland and the men in chip shops who call you ‘ Hen ’ and the lads wearing green Celtic scarves at lunchtime and broad pointy-horned cattle and graveyards macabre with the tilting of tombstones caked with moss and weeds , sheep grazing and weaving amongst them , and a coastal fishing town in Harris where a night sky shimmers only to itself and I am without friends from , the real world and I listen only for the sound of the tin whistle while the boats rock gently in the jetty and the sky rages from beige to black and craggy mountains dart until forever and a fisherman stands , stunning and alone , strong and unnamed , and leads me slowly into that everchanging sea .
19	I think it will succeed although it will take ages , for he is fearfully shy , and I am likewise affected .
20	That conflict of views has its fierce advocates on both sides , and I am neither well informed nor dispassionate enough to comment on it From the presumed perspective of John Howard , the Ellis-Beto administrations overall emerge with credit , because they did insist on the publication of official rules , and that was a big breakthrough .
21	I try to sleep but I can only doze , and I am frequently aware of a pulse , a rattle , a rustiness rippling through me .
22	I look through the window — the streets , the sky the colour of wet sugar — and I am simply stumped by this , dumbfounded , non-plussed .
23	Well , gentlemen — the evening 's business is now concluded , and I am hereby closing the meeting . ’
24	I am very sorry to trouble you with this and I am most grateful to you for having returned the documents so promptly .
25	I hardly ever come into this room , and I am most particular .
26	In all logic we have already sold the pass by having separate bands for Scotland and Wales , and I am most worried about the current matter .
27	When I walk on it the whole thing starts to move and I am soon covered in the grey dust I am stirring up ; it fills my nostrils and triggers a memory that links the smell with rock climbing .
28	A local man offers to ferry me across the fjord and I am soon on the way to Holt .
29	In this very clean transfer the orchestral and organ sound has real power , and I am particularly impressed by some mighty timpani playing in the Finale , with good hard sticks .
30	I would welcome any information on this and I am particularly interested in hearing from anyone who has experience of facilitating or participating in any such evaluation .