Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [be] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been there a few months when me and a girl called Sue and a girl called Monica started playing silly devils , throwing things out of the hatch . |
| 2 | After I 'd been there a few months I was asked if I wanted to help out in the kitchen , which I did . |
| 3 | His gingerish stubble I imagined was not a natural growth but a product of choleric distemper . |
| 4 | I believe it may be the Bowes Moor Hotel now , which I hear is quite a large and important establishment and in a very good position on the main road to the M6 . |
| 5 | This I knew was not a sexual invitation but a protection against the evil eye . |
| 6 | Erm , having looked at all that , I think what the issue really boils down to essentially is the willingness of the County Council and I suppose the panel , having heard what er the debate , to accept what I think is really a modest level of flexibility er er requested by the District Council . |
| 7 | And I think the need to protect the landscape on a settlement which we propose erm of fourteen hundred dwellings and round about three thousand three hundred people , I think is quite a significant and important issue for for Greater York . |
| 8 | Especially because mine was crying — I think the one I bathed was only a day-and-a-half old , so it was a bit scary . |
| 9 | Once I had been there a little while I really settled in and really enjoyed my primary school days . |
| 10 | No I 've been I 've been here a long time like |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been here a few times , ’ he admitted . |
| 12 | " Oh I 've been 'ere a few times and I 've heard some bleedin' awful screams comin' out of that room . |
| 13 | The thing is I 've been out a few times with my husband cos it 's his car . |
| 14 | Well no , er I 've been there a few times . |
| 15 | I have been here a long time . |
| 16 | The question I I have is quite a simple one , and that is I would like to actually see this pond slightly closer quarters than I 've been able to . |
| 17 | THE government spent £48m on a computer system for the Training and Enterprise Councils which has been only a partial operational success , according to a report today by the National Audit Office . |
| 18 | And that 's all I 've got to report which has been quite a busy month . |
| 19 | At that time the settlement of Cape Town , which had been just a small staging post on the voyage between the Netherlands and the East Indies , was beginning to grow , but although the English had occupied the Cape in 1806 , the white population remained mainly Dutch until the arrival of many new settlers from Britain in 1820 . |
| 20 | ‘ She has been here a long time and will be here for even longer , ’ Felipe answered smoothly . |
| 21 | And wheeling them to the ship you know , then after you 'd been there a long time , well my father was a down below and I went to his shop then you see . |
| 22 | Er just before we go onto you union work , what were you having was quite a good employer I believe ? |
| 23 | Edith arrived one evening at a local hotel for what she thought was just a companiable dinner party amongst friends in very pleasant surroundings . |
| 24 | While research can clarify such issues , how they are resolved is essentially a political and ethical question — in the same way as how child abuse is itself defined is essentially a political and ethical question . |
| 25 | ‘ Even as a new MP , she has got a much better grounding in the way that the Treasury and Number 10 work than most MPs who 've been there a long time . ’ |
| 26 | It shows how well we are conducting the service , in what is an old bedding factory , after all , and if you 've been to Winchester lately , you will have seen a six million pound record office , with with modern architecture in a prominent position in Winchester , er , which I 'm sure they 're conducting a service , but I 'll bet you that pound for pound we 're giving a far better service in Wiltshire , with our dedicated staff , who 've been there a long time . |
| 27 | You always find wherever you are that the people who 've been there a long time get sort of erm a bit uppity , they think that they 're |
| 28 | ‘ You 've been here a long while , have n't you , Raech ? |
| 29 | Erm what are the kind o obviously you 've been here a few months . |
| 30 | You 've been away a long time have n't you ? |