Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] [pron] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | And that 's the way I 'm approaching my next PC , knowing that no company makes the whole shooting match , whatever the badges claim . |
2 | ‘ I 'm awaiting your next command , ’ she said evenly . |
3 | He said , and it 's really good , he said , cos I 'm , I 'm celebrating my fortieth birthday , he said , and I ring my boys , he said , and they listen to the same sort of music I do . |
4 | If I were to approach my sixth criterion I needed to find someone who knew their way round an oscilloscope , and it was n't until the mid-1980s that a bright , if somewhat cranky , scuba-diving enthusiast arrived on campus to do a PhD . |
5 | I was drunk , okay , but I was getting my second wind by now . |
6 | ‘ I was expecting you last Wednesday . ‘ |
7 | I broke my nail I was biting it last night . |
8 | And erm =ut er th that that was quite a quite a good school , quite a modern school but I I 'd er I 'd er I was n't able to stay there long because I was approaching my thirteenth birthday you see than . |
9 | I was making my first inroads into a superb specimen of the amber fluid when Sally walked in . |
10 | I was doing my third week as a young crime reporter and had just about finished my second and last story of the day when the phone rang . |
11 | At the interval I was allowed my first glass of champagne . |
12 | This experience appeared to transform him and he threw himself into a great surge of composition , writing a Mass of Thanksgiving for unaccompanied choir filling 100 pages of manuscript , which he completed in 15 days , as well as other works , including a setting of Out of the Deep which is given its first performance by his choir at St Philip and St James , Cheltenham , at his funeral on today . |
13 | On the contrary , BMW — which is to celebrate its 75th anniversary soon — greeted the announcement of the S-class with undisguised glee while sitting back to count record orders for its new 3-series and boast about production figures for its V12 — now running at 80 per day when the original target had been 10 to 15 . |
14 | Coming up later we visit one of the finest palaces in the country which is hosting its first flower show . |
15 | Across the road from where we stayed is the track of the LB Narrow Gauge Railway which is celebrating its 25th anniversary . |
16 | THE WOOD Group is once again supporting the Aberdeen International Youth Festival which is celebrating its 21st Anniversary . |
17 | This year 's Christmas stamps , to be issued from 14 November , will feature Ely Cathedral , Cambridgeshire , which is celebrating its 800th anniversary . |
18 | Rex followed Laura into the cab which was becoming their second home and they were driven off into A Night of Danger . |
19 | Adelaida points out the different groups : the ‘ grandmothers ’ , who sit in the sun spinning and chatting ; the ‘ complete illiterates ’ , mostly older Aymara women who are making their first letters with painstaking care ; the ’ functional illiterates ’ who have had some schooling and progress more rapidly ; and the groups which practise their recently acquired literacy skills using materials on health and nutrition . |
20 | There are , of course , those who have infinitely more experience that Squidgey when it comes to caring and sharing with people who are spending their last days in AIDS wards and/or hospices . |
21 | Our range of mortgages is designed to suit all incomes and needs — so whether you 're buying your first home , you 're on the move or you 're thinking of switching mortgages — we can find you an excellent mortgage deal . |
22 | If you 're buying your first home and your mortgage is £40,000* or above you could qualify for the following benefit : — . |
23 | ‘ While you 're eating your last breakfast , I 'll make out your bill , ’ he concluded dismissively . |
24 | Will you be joining us next summer ? |
25 | The only heavy defeat was at Newington , who were playing their ninth match in six weeks , as opposed to the tourists , who were commencing their season . |
26 | When we first met , you were making your second Berlin cycle of the nine Beethoven symphonies . |
27 | She 's expecting her second child in three weeks and is determined this time to have the baby at home . |
28 | THE wife of record-breaking bankrupt Kevin Maxwell proudly announced a nice little dividend for the troubled tycoon yesterday — she 's expecting their fifth child . |
29 | erm She 's having her first race tonight erm under her latest a newish trainer , Bernie Doyle , he 's doing ever so well , his kennel 's really in form erm so I 'm going to go for trap five , Hippy to win erm first time erm at the track tonight , that 's the third leg . |
30 | She 's having our first baby in a couple of weeks and she 's gone to stay with her mother in York . |