Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] [pers pn] be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been told that on coming to the village to work in the cement factories and receiving his first weeks wages he asked if it was all his as it was more money than he had ever had in one week . |
| 2 | Do not tell me that they are old ideas . |
| 3 | When I looked more closely , the ropes , winches and heaps of nylon netting showed me that they were superior fishing vessels . |
| 4 | It seems to me that we 're stronger fighting that together than apart and in the last few years a growing number of successful campaigns have strengthened this belief . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're telling me that it 's official Coutts policy to bounce a cheque on one of the ten biggest private companies in Britain ? ’ |
| 6 | And he 's told me that it 's first gear , right . |
| 7 | It strikes me that it is young people who are most at risk and who have most to lose . |
| 8 | The depression on the ‘ blade ’ and the overall shape suggest to me that it is some sort of agricultural implement , such as a weeding paddle or potato lifter . |
| 9 | Well , I 'd never heard this expression before and ‘ I ’ explained to me that it was another word meaning ‘ lesbian ’ . |
| 10 | I know he told me that it was some sort of favour for something he did for your father a long time ago , but what ? ’ |
| 11 | One more time my skin warms against his and reminds me that I am this person , not generic , wife of nothing . |
| 12 | For all the assurances from those around me that I was perfect Legion material , I could not accept that the prestigious French Foreign Legion would have any need of the services of somebody whose military prowess was earned more at the bar than in the field . |
| 13 | She told me that she was eight years old , the eldest of six children , when the security men came to the army camp to arrest her father , an officer in the Moroccan army , in 1972 . |
| 14 | A man I know told me that he was twenty years old before he realised that his mother really loved him . |
| 15 | ‘ So why should Simon tell me that you were three months pregnant by him ? ’ |
| 16 | I have argued with them until I am blue in the face ; have indicated to them that it is near anarchy when the profession will not meet the Cabinet minister responsible ; but I have made no impression at all . |
| 17 | Cos me and him are good friends , like . |
| 18 | But today he said : ‘ No-one has approached me and it 's mere speculation at the moment . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ That goal puts everything behind me and it 's full steam ahead again now . ’ |
| 20 | He come at me and he was six foot two and he come he were gon na knock hell out of me so I had to protect myself and we got fighting in the shop . |
| 21 | ‘ You 're asking me if I 'm some sort of embittered , wounded animal , who only wants to reach out and break things because he ca n't be happy or possess them ? ’ |
| 22 | About period ten and correct me if I 'm wrong Andrew I was told it would be about a thousand , roughly a thousand pounds per fee earning employee . |
| 23 | yes , it also er imposes on me the obligation of course erm under G of article three does n't it ? which I imagine , but you can tell me if I 'm wrong Mr is the one , is probably the one article erm , part of the article under which such things is the insurance directive is er produced , but I maybe wrong |
| 24 | Trouble is , if you remove moles you just leave an evolutionary niche for them and they 're another lot move into the field , you can never get rid of them because if you remove your own private moles another |
| 25 | There were 16 of them and they were all defendants in this case . |
| 26 | Well I got one of them and it 's pure silk , pale green and white and with all lacy I thought I like it . |
| 27 | There had never been trouble between her and them and it 's unlikely Mr Johnson knew them . |
| 28 | ‘ We 're saying that the plates had passengers on them and it is these pieces of flotsam and jetsam , not the crustal plates , that have made the most impact on land formation , ’ Blake says . |
| 29 | Erm my advice to you would be that in the past , before the coffee rooms was run by this particular person firm we had very great difficulty with them and I 'm sure John will bear me out on this . |
| 30 | one hand how she And it was beautiful work |