Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] [adj] [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , I am quitting this hell-hole and recommend you do the same . ’ |
| 2 | I 'm leaving this evening and you 're coming with me , even if I have to help you pack , but do n't bother with anything except the basics . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm getting all biker and twisted : you 'd better feed me . |
| 4 | The Durman body , actually , is in its best shape for years : I 've lost over half a stone on my How-To-Stop-Them-Laughing-On-The-Beach diet , I 'm taking more exercise and generally feeling better all round . |
| 5 | I 'm gulping hot coffee and pulling on my coat ; my bag 's sitting on the reception desk in the hotel lobby and Andy 's standing , hunched and blinking and bleary-eyed , watching me stuff toast into my mouth and slurp coffee from a handle-free mug . |
| 6 | I 'm paying top dollar and I expect the best . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm having fresh sausage and onion pie with fried potatoes and a green vegetable , ’ said Joe . |
| 8 | I think I 'm going some place but I ca n't remember where . |
| 9 | If I were to take this gun and shoot … who ? |
| 10 | I was watching that film and thinking of her . |
| 11 | ‘ I was wearing lime-green chiffon and my mother 's emeralds . |
| 12 | erm the minor awards or discretionary awards as they became and that 's erm , I was given this job and er that 's how it 's built up really over the years . |
| 13 | I got my just desserts from Dad , which made my Mom cry more than me , but all in all I was given enough love and affection to cushion me against all the hardships that were to come . |
| 14 | I am no less interested to observe that , for Eliot , who always seemed unhurried , ‘ there is plenty of time ’ could mean a period of not much more than three weeks for reading ( the Strachey book being pretty long ) , writing typing and dispatching : which , given the fact that Spender 's book had not arrived , that I was teaching all day and conducting some evening classes , I still consider a tight fit . |
| 15 | Out drinking with a couple of female journalists ( in what was supposedly Hemingway 's favourite bar in Havana , if you must know ) , I mentioned I was writing this article and we all launched into our favourite New Age stories , like the one about the Immortalists , a group who take to its logical end the New Age philosophy of positive thinking and creating your own reality , and have decided they are going to live forever . |
| 16 | Said I was selling double glazing or something . |
| 17 | Then one day — I 'll always remember — I was staying at a friend 's house and I was sweeping this carpet and I had this vision . |
| 18 | With my family growing up I was needing more money and er that 's when I decided I would apply for a foreman 's job at . |
| 19 | By the autumn of 1989 I could see that the work I was planning more breeding and lecturing , was going to get very costly . |
| 20 | Oh yes you told me this that I was doing hard labour and he said I was building the building . |
| 21 | Since , after normal ovulation , between 6 and 12 eggs are recovered , success is measured by the number which are undergoing mitotic division and the number of divisions which can be analysed . |
| 22 | My Lords , is my Noble Friend aware that many parents and teachers who have been deeply dissatisfied and disillusioned by local education authority schools in fact just set up their own new schools which are providing excellent education and really meeting those parental wishes , often with very strong er spiritual and moral values . |
| 23 | After consulting this same healer on several further occasions , Simone decided to join a small team of people specialising in past-life therapy , and now helps others to come to terms with traumas in the past which are blocking present progress or happiness . |
| 24 | The weather was kind for the Golden Jubilee Celebrations of the Henley Golf Club which were held last weekend and large numbers of members and friends attended and were very appreciative of the arrangements which had been made . |
| 25 | This drive to help people back to work is equally evident in the success of the Job Search Seminars which were held this year and funded by Employment Services . |
| 26 | Like all Mercantile and General-owned farms , two of which were sold last year and a fourth is also under offer , it had been well-maintained . |
| 27 | The Apple-Novell effort is said to have the blessing of Intel Corp , which is providing technical assistance and compatibility testing . |
| 28 | But beyond this , I think the prohibition in regulation 143 against making an order ‘ forthwith ’ can only apply to an order which is to take immediate effect and that a suspended order which the Legal Aid Board has the opportunity to contest in no way contravenes the regulation . |
| 29 | which is to achieve greater equality but you 're having different means to achieve that . |
| 30 | broken pieces of old ships on which is found certain spume or froth , which in time breedeth into shells , and the fish which is hatched therefrom is in shape and habit like a bird … |