Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In fact I do n't know what made me think he was that way in the first place — unless it was you , of course , leading me off the trail !
2 One minute , you 're holding forth from a pulpit and everyone thinks you 're one hell of a guy .
3 ‘ You are not going to have them say you are some kind of dickhead . ’
4 But Walsh said : ‘ I deny there 's bad blood between Bull and me , there 's no vendetta .
5 I do n't know if you remember but ages ago , round about October time she borrowed some stuff for the Brownies , for erm , for Sian , Sian was going camping and she had n't got shorts or anything , so she borrowed it off me , I was thinking of Stacey starting , I wanted the t I 'm not bothered about the shorts , but I want the T-shirt and I 'm just gon na get Stacey the culottes and she can wear her shorts and the cardigan with it buy , when she first starts and then we could , Deana 's moving up to Guides this , so she can have that sweatshirt of er , I mean they 're nine pound
6 I mean they 're all history .
7 They should all be the same , let's put them together anyway , even if they 're not , we should put them together because erm I mean they 're all part of the same company anyway .
8 Cos they 're , I mean they 're nice sort of wrapped up .
9 Oh yeah I mean they were good company to go out with and I said to you at dinner time and then since they 've joined us , so we was all the same
10 I mean they were bright green , and I thought it was a different bike , I did n't even noticed the second time if it was a ladies or a man 's bike .
11 And I mean what is Scottish Opera but a group of individuals .
12 my Lord G is the E R N , I mean it is central government monitory policy
13 Oh yes , I mean it 's tremendous fun , actually , because it 's one of those jobs which you can make more or less whatever you want out of .
14 Oh yes , I mean it 's tremendous fun actually , because it 's one of those jobs which you can make more or less whatever you want out of .
15 But anyway I mean it 's all part of the picture .
16 I mean it 's all part really , of , of learning respect for the teachers and
17 See I mean it 's all paper that
18 But not only that I mean it 's New Year 's Eve , everybody else is bloody getting drunk and enjoying themselves and you 're stuck doing the bloody bar .
19 I mean it 's one thing
20 I mean it 's one thing letting the committee know for their records or something .
21 I mean it 's typical government policy , bang , there it is now you lot sort it out !
22 Yeah , I mean it 's that kind of co-ordination , yeah , to get that , to get that , right
23 I mean it 's good fuel
24 I mean it 's solid concrete .
25 Erm he makes a distinction between poor peasants , some being utterly destitute and some just being less destitute but er basically as er seventy percent of the population erm they 're the main group that 's pushing revolution forward and s so therefore I mean it 's this group that the Communist Party must n't alienate , you know , they mu must n't do anything to harm this group , associations the Communist Party must n't attack erm the associations .
26 They find it very difficult to get into Torbay to try and trade cos it 's very , I mean it 's another hour on the trip really is n't it ?
27 I mean it was one thing standing up in front of my own group and giving a lecture , but it was quite another kettle of kippers doing it in front of a strange class .
28 And er I mean it was all luck everything that sort of happened to me that night anyway I mean it it was n't so lucky for other people but I suppose most survivors have their their tale or so .
29 Yeah , but I mean you 're one week into the regime ?
30 I mean there is extra heating requirement in buildings which are cooled much faster when they are subject to high winds , but I think we can see these coming up in the next ten , fifteen years we will start to see these .
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