Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] be [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	‘ I wish Vitor did n't have this bee in the bonnet about me being a working girl .
2	And talk about me being an honorary man and you know , take the piss out of what I say , like how Geoff [ the Head ] did when I complained bitterly about that bloke [ a workman who had whistled at her ] .
3	We had much evidence during fieldwork that these complicated rules are maintained by community pressures : for example , when a young East Belfast informant applied a strategy of front-raising ( similar to RP ) to the item chap ( on a word-list ) , he was loudly mocked by his companions , who perceived his pronunciation as an attempt at RP ( which for them is an effeminate stereotype ) .
4	More important for them is the other alternative which can follow the first primitive stage : feudalism .
5	But the practice of creating these uses and trusts was popular and was growing , and the absence of all legal protection for them was a great hardship .
6	For some firms the most urgent necessity was simply to reduce immediate labour costs , and decentralization for them was a straight-forward way of finding cheaper labour .
7	I know the rails are electric , but the gap between them is a whole yard wide .
8	Between them is a third cell , represented inside by a stone-vaulted unit and outside by a strong buttress on the north side .
9	Men are bigger and sexier than women ; every encounter between them is a sexual encounter , the only important market is the sexual market , and therefore women 's resources , life-styles and class position are ultimately determined by the ‘ biological facts ’ of female sexual attractiveness and male sexual aggression .
10	The attempt to choose between them is an unreal project .
11	The space between them is the third dimension .
12	Between them was a tommy gun , discharging itself into the air .
13	In between them was the drooping branch of an apple tree .
14	A full-time multiprofessional Management Board would be created to implement its policies and the link between them was the Chief Executive who sat on both .
15	‘ I think 7pc support for me is a drastic understatement and I am certain that is because of the way the Tories questioned people , ’ he said .
16	Most powerful for me is the tragic loss that the chess world — both living and generations to come — has suffered through Fischer 's self imposed 20 years exile .
17	That for me is the ideal copy ’ .
18	The only disappointing aspect for me was the unbearable tension caused by the starter who ‘ held ’ the men for an unbelievably long time , causing false starts .
19	Oh I could have er er well it does n't debar me but I feel it , it would it would n't be right , for me being a Labour Party member sitting on a , a non-segregated and non-political gr er ah association ,
20	about I 'm the best thing in your life But
21	After them was a black dog .
22	Half in , half out of the water opposite me was a greyish mass .
23	While they were walking they had not been able to see it , because there were hills in the way ; but now they saw that the cottage was really built on a cliff , and down below them was a small bay .
24	Below them was a larger group , sometimes called geburs ( origin of the modern ‘ boor ’ ) or freeman cottagers owing more services to their thegns than they had freedoms .
25	Opposite them was a small elfin fellow who wore a shiny blue waistcoat over his gallibaya .
26	After a whole night of me being a first-class liability I have pulled one big juicy plum and handed it to him .
27	‘ Mum says she always looked forward to her grandchildren , because of me being an only child .
28	Ahead of me was a glass-panelled oak door which led out to the sun terrace .
29	Ahead of me was an elliptical circle of maybe twenty people , the combined ages of whom must have seventy score and ten .
30	Not one of them 's a hard-bitten tom , the kind you 'd find on the streets .

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