Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] be [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Me sister 's 'aving terrible trouble with 'er eldest daughter . |
| 2 | My response was to make one condition of my own — that the anthology should include prayers from other religions . |
| 3 | To my surprise — for I was a very minor political fish — the news of my resignation was given widespread coverage , The Times calling it ‘ startling ’ and other papers ‘ sensational ’ . |
| 4 | All that was in my mind was to abort this mission . |
| 5 | Yet , while one part of my mind was reaching this decision , while horror and moral indignation were mounting within me , another part of my mind was working in an opposite direction . |
| 6 | ‘ As a footballer , my ambition was to play next week , and now as a manager , where the average expectancy is two-and-a-half years , it is to manage a winning team next week . |
| 7 | ‘ Thing is , Barbs barged in at an inconvenient moment when my brothers were moving some stuff into my place , and they came over all paranoid and looked at her very old-fashioned , and while I know they would n't do anything to her , now she 's gone missing I ca n't help wondering . |
| 8 | He wrote : My plan was to use familiar material in a watered down way . |
| 9 | My offspring is gaining one unit , that it would n't have had otherwise . |
| 10 | My parents were discussing some incident in the past and , when I joined in the conversation to ask some question , they told me , as they often had on similar occasions , ‘ Of course , that was before you were born . ’ |
| 11 | In that respect , close contact has been established with leaders of the Council of Welsh Districts and the Assembly of Welsh Counties , and local government officers and my officials are paying detailed attention to the practical aspects of implementing the new council tax , including — as the hon. Member for Leyton ( Mr. Cohen ) said — the information technology requirement . |
| 12 | For this reason my eye was caught one day by a small box-ad at the bottom of the column : |
| 13 | " My aim was to secure collective bargaining between employees ' and employers ' representatives and for this both strong union and strong employer organisations were necessary . |
| 14 | Where things have gone wrong the two typical queries are : ‘ My fish are ill/dying/dead/refusing to eat ’ and ‘ My fish are killing each other ’ , and many of these I find very distressing , as they are usually the result of the hobbyist having failed to do his or her ‘ homework ’ before setting up their tank or buying a particular species . |
| 15 | I ca n't say that my revelations were having any effect on the Inspector . |
| 16 | The firm 's main work was producing components for aircraft but my job was to investigate new product areas for the company . |
| 17 | I feel that somewhere over my head is hanging some kind of spirituality . |
| 18 | I feel that somewhere over my head is hanging some kind of spirituality-ometer , and that I have been found wanting . |
| 19 | With a careless shrug , he says : ‘ My flat was burgled last year and it occurred to me then not much of it was important . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ My father-in-law was giving new meaning to the phrase ‘ keeping a shop ’ . ’ |
| 21 | She is very old and a bit soft in the head , you know ; my advice is to take this offer before she dies ! ’ |
| 22 | ‘ My objective is to win this fight against Tucker and then the one after that and the one after that . |
| 23 | My inclination is to reconsider this summer holiday ritual . |
| 24 | ‘ One of my regrets is leaving this project just as it has started to get off the ground , ’ said Det Insp Williams , who started out as a PC in the Cheshire Constabulary in 1963 . |
| 25 | I was actually brought up by my Aunt Queen , along with her five children , because my mother was working all day and most of the night running the eel shops . |
| 26 | ‘ My mother was admitted this morning on Hunter Ward , and I dashed up during my coffee break to see her . ’ |
| 27 | When she joined them Rodney was making another announcement . |
| 28 | Her donation was revealed last night as two voice experts gave verdicts on a recording said to feature Diana chatting intimately to a man on the phone . |
| 29 | , A test which gives people working with pesticides an indication of the extent of their exposure is to undergo extensive field trials next year . |
| 30 | Its rink was closed last month . |