Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] [be] the " in BNC.

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1 With such a varied contingent of activities I say what is the need for school !
2 Alison I understand you 're the person who has to drive information on .
3 money I think it 's the sport that counts .
4 Alfonso I think he was the guilty one really .
5 The greatest pleasure I gave him was the fact that nobody knew about me .
6 In the back of your mind you know it is the Italian temperament against the English temperament , and you just know something is going to happen .
7 In the meantime , he eventually sold the Company as its peak in 1987 , he had made another small fortune , and with some 30 aeroplanes and 80 pilots on the books he felt it was the right time to let it go .
8 There was a shrieking in her ears , so vibratingly shrill that for an instant she thought it was the whole Glass Castle shivering to pieces — then she looked up and saw the Women sweeping down on them , screaming their war cry .
9 The most interesting place I saw there was the university , which was full of very clever men , with very clever ideas .
10 Well we were taken up to the standby boat which is I mean every vessel in the North Sea , every rig and installation has a boat that circles it , non stop , twenty four hours a day and I mean that The standby boat on Piper I mean it was the the two inflatable boats off it that picked everybody up , and most folk up , and one of them was lost , they lost two of the crew off that .
11 cos I do n't think it 's the problem of a erm a safety record I think it 's the perceived
12 People have linked the CTC comments immediately above with the picture they think it is the CTC .
13 I 've just been up to the Wembley exhibition of word processor , and one of the things I noticed there was the increasing number of processors and packages which I think you would describe as friendly or at least semi-friendly to , to help people .
14 And er in the back I think it was the back bedroom there was a , a light switch and the wiring was sort of hanging from , from the switch .
15 On answering the phone I discovered it was the manager of my football team , Bob , to say that due to a waterlogged pitch the game was off .
16 ‘ From the moment I first saw freestyle I knew it was the sport for me — there was so much more to it than ordinary skiing — it was beautiful and the ultimate in skiing athleticism . ’
17 Every year in October we say it is the finest thing in the garden .
18 The name they gave me was the old principessa 's , the prince 's mother , the kind one .
19 But as former Darlington and Stockton Times typesetter Malcolm and housewife Judy walked into Sadberge Village Hall on Saturday night they realised they were the guests of honour at a surprise party .
20 Well apparently that was n't the end of the garden you see cos that came across like this and when you went through a gap in the hedge about another twenty yards further on in the far distance it seemed there was the hut .
21 When I say I ca n't see people I think it 's the lighting but there is a sort of a I ca n't recognise people by face .
22 When they hatch they will try to follow and come close to the first slowly moving object they see which is the right sort of colour and more or less chicken-sized .
23 Oh yes , er yes they were , they were er of course there was a great divide there I mean between the Liberals I mean they were the only two parties in those days .
24 Now one commentator I believe it was the the foreman mason involved in the building of Skerrymor described the landing on the rock as being like climbing up the side of a bottle .
25 You stopped believing in Father Christmas , tooth fairies , paternal omniscience and in the sort of over-the-top crazy heart-thudding happy-ever-after love they told you was the ideal .
26 The frustration he caused her was the keynote of every one-sided altercation .
27 Some years ago in , in New York I think it was the stores were taking on father Christmases .
28 In the end I said what is the alternative [ to closure ] going to be ? … .
29 I came here eight years ago from Unilever , and the standards I respected there are the ones I would try to uphold at Cancer Relief .
30 The reason she liked it was the variety and pace of work and the rapport with the teacher .
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