Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [verb] [adj] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | — Clearly the words ‘ Now I am seeing this as apex ’ can not so far mean anything to a learner who has only just met the concepts of apex , base and so on — But I do not mean this as empirical proposition . |
| 2 | I 've seen it , and now I 'm getting hot and cross . ’ |
| 3 | I 'm saying this because GCSE includes a section on improvisation , and a lot of teachers ca n't do it ; they say they ca n't do it … |
| 4 | The following year I was refunded three and ninepence by his successor because I had been over-charged . |
| 5 | I was struck dumb because George Crowninshield , senator and possibly a future President of the United States , had come alone to Straker 's Cay . |
| 6 | ‘ I was shaken rigid when Naylor opened your door to me last night . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I was saving this until Mum was desperate , ’ she said . |
| 8 | ‘ June 1980 , I was pushing 20 and part of Orange Juice , an early stone Roses prototype whose return to music was the resolve for a bad Seventies hangover . |
| 9 | Tried to explain all this to Vic , who said I was doing fine and Matt was doing fine and he thought we 'd gel together on screen . |
| 10 | paracetamol , if you 're getting hot and achy . |
| 11 | Now , they say you know you 're getting old when policemen start to look young . |
| 12 | Look at you now — you 're feeling miserable as hell , and I ca n't say I blame you . |
| 13 | ‘ She were taken bad afore Christmas and she 's slow to mend . |
| 14 | As well as A-level history and English , she is studying French and performing arts for AS ( half an A ) exams and psychology for GCSE . |
| 15 | Physically , she was looking better than Harriet had seen her in a long while . |
| 16 | She was sounding terse and McLeish decided not to ask her any more details over the transatlantic phone . |
| 17 | And she was feeling overdressed and underconfident … |
| 18 | ‘ It depends , ’ she said : she was feeling happier since Memet had arrived but would not have dreamed of telling him so . |
| 19 | How could she admit she was becoming agitated because Silas and Doreen had not yet appeared ? |
| 20 | We are making sure that employment training is making its full contribution to the aim and guarantee groups for the long-term unemployed . |
| 21 | ‘ We are treating this as murder , but we are not looking for anyone else in connection with it , ’ an RUC spokesman said . |
| 22 | Regardless of whether we are talking isolated or non-isolated , however , the capacitors introduce two entirely non-trivial problems . |
| 23 | But it was felt though , that it was necessary to support the document in order to clear up a rather unsatisfactory situation er , where we 're holding sectional and delegate conferences that do n't have remits and guidelines er , which can clarify their position . |
| 24 | We 're doing that cos Mr 's not gon na hear unless I play it to him . |
| 25 | that we 're not actually and the thing is , with advertising here , we 're selling more than Christmas crackers . |
| 26 | He still has n't had it through , cos we were yes , yes , big improvement , it was just that we were arranging visiting and things like that and er whether there 's any need to do certain things , so er , but he 's still on a , he 's come off all his painkillers his morphine 's out completely , that 's fantastic is n't it ? |
| 27 | If we see something in others that makes us angry , if they are causing hurt or pain , then our first task is to look at ourselves . |
| 28 | I think they 're getting desperate and Berlin seems the likeliest cause . |
| 29 | Persson dominated the first game and his venomous top spin attack proved too strong for even Chen 's defences as they were breached 21–8 but Chen held on to an even scoreline in the second game . |
| 30 | They were getting worried that news was leaking out . |