Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No matter how careful I am with this lead it gets a knot in it . |
| 2 | Frank wanted David to give me a down-sweep with the baton , but as anyone can observe , when I am in full flight I 'm really running high , and this presented David with a problem as he is quite a short fellow . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , as long as I am in this world I remain a sinner , still capable of letting him down . |
| 4 | Erm , I 'm on this occasion I 'll keep as close to this as I can possibly go . |
| 5 | ‘ I know I wo n't keep doing it at this rate but while I 'm on this streak I 'll take full advantage of it . ’ |
| 6 | It 's not that I 'm against autobiographical writing I just generally do n't think it makes good , or true , fiction . |
| 7 | Oh I quite agree because I think that there people that have , I 'm a car driver , but if I 'm in inner city I tend not to use that , I use public transport |
| 8 | He went up there this year , I was up , this is true on God 's , I 'm in this chair he said , come on I 'll I 'm going now I 'm gon na get my , I had to go I had to go and get Rififi , a filly called Rififi I did . |
| 9 | Last time I was on this programme I think we had the same conversation , did n't we ? |
| 10 | I was actually flashed at er in the library and what I thought of I would of done was completely different to what I actually did , erm , I thought I would of been quite calm about it , but in fact I ran out the library and I ran straight back to my flat erm , I was at that point I think about twenty one |
| 11 | I actually feel , there was a time I used to think it would n't happen to me because if I was in that situation I would do this , I would do the next thing and when it did actually happen to me it took me ages to get over |
| 12 | So I said well I 've never been in the situation but I said if it , if it was , if I was in that situation I , asked to see the manager or person in charge , make an offer to pay for any damage that was done and if that did n't suffice then I would say well I am the care officer for a Mencap home and the only thing I can do is say will you er get in touch with my boss and it 'll have to be sorted out from Head Office and she said perfect , you could n't do anything better , then she give me all different things that we 've gone into the next day and the patient 's done everything down the bed , what would you do ? |
| 13 | And er so while I was in this shop I I sold this chap five hundred bundles of fire wood you see ? |
| 14 | Perhaps one day when you are in that direction you will allow me to show you my department in the university . ’ |
| 15 | If you are in this camp you have a Soviet name . |
| 16 | If you are in this position it is important to take stock of what you have taken on . |
| 17 | You know once you 're on that system you 've got to have a light one and a heavy one |
| 18 | they 've got woo wooden poles with hooks on to hook people out cos they , you do n't , once you 're in that water you , you do n't stop you know , you ca n't decide not to go . |
| 19 | You see if you are very angry about something , about a situation you know that when you 're in that anger it 's so strong that you would n't notice if something happened right under your nose because your anger is u occupying your , your brain and your senses . |
| 20 | When you 're in public life you have to put up with er cameras and er things going erm around so and we 're going to be er , completely anonymous in er that , so |
| 21 | Also if you 're in rented accommodation you 're claiming housing benefit , you 'll probably have n't got to pay any rent , specially if it 's Council there 's relief , relief from paying |
| 22 | If you were in private accommodation you were noth , you were nothing like so well off . |
| 23 | On the other hand I felt I could scarcely ask you to wait while I dealt with the strawboard — you were by this time I think just on the verge of a few conventional politenesses about my work , an awkward stage in conversations of this sort which is difficult to endure gracefully but which is even more difficult to interrupt . |
| 24 | yeah she 'll be in trouble wo n't she , she often gets her own drinks anyway , she sort of like , she 's at that age she can , it 's only when they get out there together |
| 25 | Perhaps Elena thought that if she was in sole charge she could make a proper tyrant out of him . |
| 26 | He had to remind himself that when she was in this mood she was a mistress of the single , agonized word , the mutely suffering glance . |
| 27 | on the other side of the sun and the moon 's on that side and we 're on that side we 're in the light . |
| 28 | In desperation , in many cases , young females deliberately become pregnant because they know that once they are in that state they are immediately restored to the benefit system . |
| 29 | When they are in great danger I recover them . |
| 30 | When they are in great danger I recover them . |