Example sentences of "[be] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So nearly — it could have been me too . ) |
| 2 | If it had been me there as a kid , I 'd have wrapped my arms around him and smothered him , that 's how strong the emotion was . |
| 3 | That at least was something to congratulate himself on , but there had been nothing else in the encounter to afford the Colonel any consolation . |
| 4 | There had been nothing either prurient or arbitrary in their choice of frankly sexual emblems to embody the mystery of the Conjunction ; but even in times less hypocritical than her own such pictures had proved subject to misinterpretation . |
| 5 | ‘ I have been on the bus since then and there has been nothing quite as bad but I have still heard very loud swearing and seen emergency doors open . ’ |
| 6 | so there would of been nothing there for him to go for , you must of been ever so worried following him around watching him . |
| 7 | Thessy asked me what McIllvanney had wanted , but I said it had been nothing very much for I was too disgusted with the man to tell Thessy the truth . |
| 8 | There 's been nothing very dramatic since the secretive and highly confidential opening , when the teacher started with : " I 've been told about the wreck of a Roman Galley , which is buried in mud off the coast near Pompeii ; and it 's said that when it sank it was carrying great chests of treasure from Egypt . " |
| 9 | Only the R C's , there would of been nothing really ah need another six and that 's it |
| 10 | There has been nothing remotely resembling intellectual coherence . |
| 11 | The path that leads to the world 's highest mountain is full of adventures … full of famous stories … but there 's been nothing so grand and gallant as the expedition being planned by Macintyre of Milton Keynes … who cater and care for the mentally disabled … |
| 12 | Their speeches to the United Nations World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna delivered a double rebuff to China and other countries which say their circumstances are special and that their peoples ' rights are no-one else 's affair . |
| 13 | Sporting names from past and present say there 's been no-one else to match the magic of Stan . |
| 14 | ‘ Flat feet and a tendency to be frugal are nothing very terrible . |
| 15 | ‘ We can only guess at Allan Lamb 's motives in the Daily Mirror , but we hope they are nothing so base as money or , even worse , our nationality . ’ |
| 16 | We can only guess at Allan Lamb 's motives for his article in the Daily Mirror , but we hope that they are nothing so base as money or even worse our nationality . |
| 17 | Ah these are them anyway , cos them er curtains that were up there for ages were a right mess |
| 18 | Where are them then ? |
| 19 | what are them like ? banns banns |
| 20 | These are them there . |
| 21 | Books are me most prized possessions , ye ken . |
| 22 | Am I even a little bit — beautiful , or are you just saying it to make me open up ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Why am I here at all ? |
| 24 | I am not a scrounging pain in the arse , just your average pissed-off ‘ what the bloody hell am I here for ? ’ soldier . |
| 25 | Why am I here if he ca n't do it ? |
| 26 | Why the fuck am I here , Marcus ? |
| 27 | Then watch a British woman shuffling self-consciously along the same promenade and you see ‘ Christ , why the hell am I here ? ’ agonising embarrassment . |
| 28 | ‘ Why am I here ? |
| 29 | Why am I here ? was his next thought . |
| 30 | Not just job address past history — get into the habit of thinking Why am I here ? |