Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told her that oiling was not our job and that management was always trying to make us do more work for the same pay . |
| 2 | Well I told you that man was trimming trees at the bottom , the other day . |
| 3 | I told you that butter was n't good for watches ! ’ he said angrily to the March Hare . |
| 4 | ‘ Would it make any difference , ’ Fen asked , ‘ if I told you those photographs are not of Petula ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I tell them that acting is the burning of life — and the inner conflict lasts for a month … ’ |
| 6 | I tell you those chairs are too low now now we 're getting old . |
| 7 | Er in my opinion at this particular time we must bear in mind the financial constraints that we work under and er would the board agree with me that erm survival comes first yes but it 's obvious that the programme that we 've er had put forward is a good compromise between preferred in the arts , maintaining the theatre as a viable proposition and er entertaining the people of this particular part of the world because as I understand it this theatre was not just the artist also an entertainment centre and it 's in this area that er it 's quite obvious when you look into the figures on this area the popular area that the majority income comes so you 'll have to make a compromise and I will congratulate the board on what I think is pretty reasonable compromise so it 's quite obvious in the programme . |
| 8 | Chairman , erm , as I understand it this afternoon is , is a free vote and I , for that reason end there , I hope that persuade any waverers er one way , erm , at the moment we 've got agreements with tenants and it 's up to them to decide what to do with their land . |
| 9 | Mind you I saw her two day 's ago and she looked absolutely fit as a fiddle so I said I think it strikes quickly and |
| 10 | apparently she used to go out with him before she married Derek , I think her first husband was called . |
| 11 | Well I think you two ladies are very fortunate , and you obviously have come from homes that have encouraged you very much , and have come from schools that have encouraged you very much . |
| 12 | I take it second husbands are allowed ? |
| 13 | I take it that question is an example of your Personal Management , the individual care you lavishly bestow on your clients . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I promise you this man is a most extraordinary individual , ’ Chant said . |
| 15 | Now let A , B be general , and let the equivalent transformations which give them canonical form be PAQ , RBS , where P , Q , R , S are non-singular . |
| 16 | But for Sergeant Geoff Newitt , from Great Milton in Oxfordshire , memories of the night last July which earned him this honour are never far from his mind . |
| 17 | The book of which gave him most satisfaction was William Neil 's One Volume Bible Commentary . |
| 18 | The result is that all the other countries which buy US manufactured aircraft are fitted with poor quality CVR installations unless , like new Zealand , they go out of their way to require ‘ hot mike ’ systems . |
| 19 | Not much late I asked Dr Ethelwynn Trewavas her opinion , and she assured me two species were involved , and kindly showed me photos of the teeth of both species , which even I could see were different . |
| 20 | Despite himself , he heard again Fael-Inis 's words earlier : who told you that life was intended to be easy , Mortal ? |
| 21 | From the man who told us that unemployment was a price well worth paying , we now have the strategy for the 1990s — ’ wait and see ’ . |
| 22 | He was a bright boy , good at his lessons , but she told him that cleverness was only a virtue if you worked hard and used it to good purpose . |
| 23 | Being aggressive is just as bad as being submissive it really is because people swing to one side you know it some people are very good at being aggressive and are very good at diving in and getting their own way and just ju by being aggressive it 's naturally aggressive . |
| 24 | You tell me that Bill is at home and either he is drunk or he is sober . |
| 25 | Their Northern Ireland president is Billy McCormick from Craigavad who tells me that membership is 200 and rising , and new recruits are always welcome . |
| 26 | Do you tell them that smoking is banned on the Underground ? |
| 27 | NEW AGE psychedelic salvation from Delerium , who brought us last year 's insanely good ‘ A Psychedelic Sauna ’ collection . |
| 28 | ‘ Pinkie , are you telling me this fellow 's a bloody intellectual ? |
| 29 | In the first days she said her one hope was that her children , isolated though they were , could feel ‘ held ’ in the same safe way . |
| 30 | the way she said it that day was , they 're old dogs , they do n't need the exercise and they do n't bark , that is the impression , impression I got |