Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [verb] [pos pn] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ bad ’ characters in any story grab attention more easily than the ‘ good ’ because in them are realised our own temptations and foul qualities which we suppress in our daily lives . |
| 2 | ‘ I have full responsibility for fund-raising and publicity and because I took on a new post it means I am introducing my own ideas in consultation with the directors and chairman . |
| 3 | ‘ To enable discussions of the project to take place in total secrecy , ’ he said , ‘ I 'm taking my four colleagues cruising in the Cyclades . |
| 4 | ‘ I see myself as a guardian , although I 'm making my own marks with a herb garden and wild flower garden . ’ |
| 5 | I was fighting my own terrors in public , but others wanted to do it more gently . |
| 6 | I was making my first inroads into a superb specimen of the amber fluid when Sally walked in . |
| 7 | I was doing my four hours on and eight off , and as a supernumerary was given a variety of jobs . |
| 8 | I remember , when I was doing my lifesaving certificates , that one of the very first things that we learnt , was that you have to , as the life sa , the life saver , you had to be in charge of the situation . |
| 9 | Went to the Royal Academy when I was doing my 'O' Levels , it was a Jackson follow up it was about , ambulance was about twelve foot by twelve foot , it was literally splodges of paint all over the fucking place , it was horrible , you can actually buy them at the Royal Academy , you ca n't buy them at , but he was asking a hundred thousand pounds for it , I could n't believe it , a trained monkey could of fucking painted that |
| 10 | But er , in my later as I was rearing my two children erm I , I think I used to spend mine . |
| 11 | You are expressing your personal responses , and speaking from the heart as much as from the head , so there is no need to try and paint an apparently ‘ objective ’ picture with appeal to the intellect . |
| 12 | You are maintaining your mental defences well . |
| 13 | I might feel imagine now that I 'm a rather severe confessor , or a psychoanalyst faced with what I believe they call denial , or the flight into health ! — I might feel that you are concealing your deeper feelings from yourself . |
| 14 | These dimensions have been tested ergonomically , and are designed to fit in with standard appliances , so they provide a useful guide if you are building your own units instead of buying ready-made . |
| 15 | You will certainly need to experiment with exposure periods if you are coating your own boards with a UV sensitive aerosol lacquer . |
| 16 | They would never let you in alone , even though you are wearing your best clothes . |
| 17 | If you are retaining your previous FMS drivers because they are the same or later than those shipped with LIFESPAN , you must check that they are installed /OPEN/SHARED , and that they have world read and execute access enabled . |
| 18 | The more you learn about it , the more you understand how to use it , the less likely you are to subject your raw materials to absurd or unharmonious treatments . |
| 19 | You 're spoiling your pretty looks , pet . |
| 20 | It 's taken five years of your life , but at least you 're getting your just rewards now . ’ |
| 21 | I mean i i the new innovation is just coming round today I see starting the same thing all over again , you 're weighing your own products at the . |
| 22 | Recording their own conversa the trouble is though , if you 're recording your own conversations you 're a bit stilted |
| 23 | When you protect yourself against German Measles , you 're protecting your unborn children . |
| 24 | er you were using your own contacts |
| 25 | ‘ While you were following your own pursuits this morning , I set a few more wheels in motion . |
| 26 | She 's smoothing her sappled hands up and down my thighs . |
| 27 | ‘ … we do get a few complaints — generally from male tourists whose culture is much more restrictive than ours , and who have mistakenly assumed that when a young woman displays herself naked on a beach she is inviting their carnal attentions . |
| 28 | It did n't help that , intellectually , I knew that she was reliving her own feelings about the way in which a second child — me — had wrecked her marriage . |
| 29 | The walk looked like being one of Fen 's brisk route marches , and Robbie thanked heaven she was wearing her new shoes . |
| 30 | Scarlet blinked again : she was projecting her own feelings on to her child . |