Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet changes which at first seem major or dramatic often fade in significance as parts of them are assimilated into school operation or attention is diverted to newer concerns . |
| 2 | I have a great deal of essential data on infant behavior that I am using as control material . |
| 3 | If I am working on pupil autonomy , then I have to find some way to remind pupils that it often helps to talk out loud to someone , and to establish an atmosphere in which they readily approach each other and me for this purpose . |
| 4 | A day or two after my arrival he said to me , ‘ In nine months ’ time I am retiring from missionary service . |
| 5 | I am going to speech therapy , ’ he explained . |
| 6 | I 'm sinking into chocolate fudge cake . |
| 7 | No , I know what I 'm thinking of , I 'm , if ever , I 'm thinking of revision week , cos that was a week , we was n't it ? |
| 8 | do n't worry I the exam , I 'm leaving at Christmas time . |
| 9 | For example if I 'm looking at O-level history , ‘ What sorts of things do you think might be important , or what kinds of evidence do you think I ought to collect , or what issues do you think I ought to take into account ? ’ ’ |
| 10 | Erm I I 'm speaking from recollection sir at having looked into this in the context of planning appeal which is now a little while ago , but it did strike me at the time that er there was a definite feeling that the agricultural issue was very strong protection of ag agricultural land throughout was a strong issue up to er the mid nineteen eighties and certainly was up to the time in late seventy nine early nineteen eighty and er therefore there was a feeling that Policy E three simply er was supplementary to those other policies . |
| 11 | How could you fancy ringing up your potential clients , and say , Hello , it 's Carol , I 'm calling from Abbey Death . |
| 12 | I 'm wired for sound ma'am . |
| 13 | I want to tell them I 'm going to Drama School , but I ca n't stand the look on their faces , the thought of their whining voices saying it 's not a suitable occupation for their darling daughter . ’ |
| 14 | so their days are full so they 'll be , and the day she goes there I 'm going to City Hall to see Joe Cocker that night |
| 15 | If , after all this time , we 're back to this sort of malarkey , they can fuck it , I 'm going on hunger strike . ’ |
| 16 | This month I 'm concentrating on painting software . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm suffering from stage fright . ’ |
| 18 | After a month 's stay at UCH ( University College Hospital in Central London ) I was transferred to specialist cardiologist Dr Jane Sommerville at the then National Heart Hospital . |
| 19 | I was hit by joyride car , says soldier |
| 20 | I was born on Christmas Day nineteen twelve . |
| 21 | I was born in Gran Canaria in the city of Las Palmas , which is the administrative centre of the Canary Islands . |
| 22 | I was flying as Deputy Group Commander , and followed him one minute later . |
| 23 | I explain that I was asking about Class War Federation 's next event . |
| 24 | So this is how Freud originally discovered transference , as an observation made in the course of analysis , and as we saw , erm , a couple of weeks ago , whenever it was I was talking about group psychology , transference was a fundamental concept in Freud 's theory of groups . |
| 25 | As I was applying to art school I needed a reference so I told Vivienne that I thought I 'd ask Malcolm , since he was my employer . |
| 26 | He said : ‘ I went to Africa to teach but I was re-routed into education administration and I have stayed in that profession ever since . |
| 27 | I wanted to put a a morning on when I realised there was problems here just a morning an open morning which would of brought probably nine hundred thousand pounds into this building , in July I came in to try to see the Director of the playhouse I could n't go through the written way because I was waiting for exam date to come through . |
| 28 | I was stationed on Christmas Island for the British Megaton Trials during 1957–59 and was present for three H-bomb tests . |
| 29 | And it also managed to chip some of the woodwork , curious to think that I was offered as war damage compensation five pounds to re-case the piano , you could n't of had it repolished for five pounds , but thinking was working class people should n't have pianos , I 'm certain that was at the back of , of the gentleman whose job it was to evaluate war damage , he certainly raised his eyebrows every time we told him , what either a piece of furniture or crockery or cutlery which had been destroyed had cost and he was so foolish after er the house had been almost flattened as de demand bills as proof of evidence that your figures were correct |
| 30 | By way of variation I was coming off night duty one cold , grey winter 's morning and very much looking forward to a warm bed when , for some unknown reason , my revenue conscience was aroused by the sight of a man , whom I recognised as an engineer from one of our early morning ferries , hurrying up the road towards town . |