Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] [coord] " in BNC.

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1 I 've been seeing her for 3 and a half years .
2 Then make up a minimum of 650 calories ( more , if you are allowing yourself between 1,000 and 1,500 a day ) from Fibre-Filler ( see page 65 ) and the meals on the F-Plan menus .
3 That 's right , if you 're organizing something like that and thinking about it from now , this is only the first of September , but
4 Erm but then later on th they 're saying that you you 're accepting it in full and final settlement .
5 Mountain bikes do n't have guards because if you 're using them on wet and muddy terrain you do n't want to constantly have to stop to unclog the wheels .
6 You 're dividing it by ten or you 're of-ing , times-ing , multiplying it by one tenth , it 's the same thing .
7 And we it was fourth year when we done it and we 'd never been shown anything like that and it was interesting because it 's the sort of fact that you you never really think about
8 Keith goes on : ‘ We 've been doing it for three or four months now and the only problem was when somebody tripped running to the B stage , fell down and scraped their elbow ! ’
9 For my first as I put down in my erm blurb before , will be to meet you in small or large groups throughout the Euro constituency , and see what you can do to help me and to convince you erm that I will be a a good campaign leader , a good candidate .
10 I 'm colouring mine in nice and there 's little nose
11 ‘ I 've been taking it for two and a half years .
12 2 If a word has a number of meanings which are a little different , then they are printed one after another and numbered .
13 I 've been restraining myself for six and a half years !
14 According to a survey carried out by the Bureau of National Affairs in 1986 , 36% of the responding organisations currently had a smoking policy , 2% were to implement one during 1986 and another 21% had such a policy under consideration [ 7 ] .
15 ‘ They were sawing it in half and heaving all these rocks around on the Saturday morning trying to make it look like anything other than a total abortion .
16 In no time senators were renaming themselves with longer and longer titles so that their seconds should be bigger than everyone else 's .
17 I 've been telling her about that and all .
18 what you can do is wind it like that and the hose winds up .
19 The bookies are quoting us at 40–1 and you can bet one or two of the lads have got a few bob on us at those odds .
20 To insist on an overtly Polish identity was to exclude oneself from polite and educated Danzig society and to disqualify oneself from any job that promised social and economic advancement .
21 The subsequent chronology of the licences , as well as the varying charges for them , reveal that the king was granting them for political and financial ends , to make friends and raise cash , particularly from the late 1290s when he desperately needed both .
22 IT would have to be demonstrated , for example , that she was placing them in moral or physical danger with her lifestyle . ’
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