Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [be] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think I 'm ever the rosy-cheeked type . ’ |
| 2 | It was no comfort at all to know she was probably the only female in existence who did n't thrill to its rich , deep tones , who was left completely unmoved by its huskily sensual undertones . |
| 3 | Some say it is just the Asian way . |
| 4 | It 's what they say it 's just the whole business of looking at lectures for the British National Corpus . |
| 5 | And and people say it 's sometimes the only er money tha that a mother wo gets that she can call her own and and use in the way that she wants to . |
| 6 | Just as Rachel gave Hollywood an inkling of his class , and Desert Rats reassured them as to his reliability , The Robe showed that he could almost carry what were really the worn-out carcases of a clapped-out era . |
| 7 | Here a building is shown which was probably the old Vicarage , later to be the first Halling school . |
| 8 | … These circumstances create what is perhaps the administrative dilemma . |
| 9 | ‘ Look , I know I 'm only a kid and I know you 're still the big hero , but , take it from me , some things you do n't understand . ’ |
| 10 | With people who 'd be have nothing to do with the music business or just you know it 's just the social er the social life you know . |
| 11 | I know it was only the extra weight of the Cross that got me up that hill . |
| 12 | All right , I know it was hardly the All-England championships ; I know it was only the badminton club doubles competition . |
| 13 | But it does secure what is surely the central and most important point , by removing the possibility of unintended consequences for the libraries . |
| 14 | In addition , an expanding Kingston required increasing amounts of fruit and market garden produce which are currently the main products . |
| 15 | He was speaking very much more quietly than when he first came in and occasionally looked reproachfully at the door as if the thing which had depressed him was just the other side of it . |
| 16 | ‘ In reality , we believe he was simply the perfect rapist . ’ |
| 17 | I believe it was once the private property of Tsar Nicholas . |
| 18 | ‘ In the space of a couple of days local politicians have succeeded in dashing the hopes of thousands of anglers , and I feel it is just the thin end of the wedge . |
| 19 | As a result , Haslam inherited what was then the plastic-film group , which was at an embryonic stage of development . |
| 20 | He said , with his back to me , until you went away I thought it was just the usual thing . |
| 21 | I thought it was probably the other one who had rung , on the cadge . ’ |
| 22 | That is , he thought he was still the amiable , easy-going champion he had been , when in reality he was a harried man who was beginning to learn about defeat and humiliation . |
| 23 | Well I do n't think it 's just the real in fashion what they 're gon na wear it 's only really Mr that is not interested in it |
| 24 | Yeah , well I mean it 's always the unexpected |
| 25 | Thaw , 50 , admitted it was probably the huge success of the opera-loving sleuth Morse that clinched the award . |
| 26 | He gave her a wide toothy grin , and immediately realized it was exactly the wrong approach . |
| 27 | In my case , for four or five years I think I was probably the only person that played with digital delays and two amps and all that , and it was like a new thing . |
| 28 | But I think there 's also the other end of the scale which is , which is what , you 've slightly amended this year , is the fact of elderly people erm , I know recently that myself have gone through the fact of my gran had er , was going through a very sick period , and if she 'd have come back home , it would have been very difficult for me to have had to look after her at the same time as trying to attend my council duties , and this would have been the same for my dad , and the additional income which this would have brought , to have paid someone to be able to look after her whilst we were at council meetings , and you can remember that these meetings sometimes go on , you can say well , this meeting should be over by one o'clock then it goes on till three o'clock or whatever , and then peop , the problems mount up for that person left on their own , and I think that those things have to be taken into consideration , and I believe that this is the first step forward in trying to recognise that people have responsibilities outside of the council chamber . |
| 29 | Er on the envi environmental aspect , I think it 's worth emphasizing because clearly this is the major concern of both Scotton and er the Residents ' Association and er that the County Council has and perhaps to some extent I think it 's certainly the public consultations or the exercises I 've been involved in at this stage in a major scheme has done far more work in trying to assess those effects than is normally the case at this stage in a ma major highway scheme . |
| 30 | I think it 's absolutely the right way to go , and I think that one of the things that the English Tourist Boards are doing , which is quite right , is to make people more aware of their classification and grading schemes . |