Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may not be pure in heart , but , since Mike Jarvis the skateboarder went to live in Nottingham , I am about the only fourteen-year-old boy in the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist . |
| 2 | I 'm on the bloody black one ! |
| 3 | Savvy : I 'm from the Black Lesbian and Gay Centre project in London and our members include lesbians of First Nation and Third World descent , both people who 've grown up in this country and people who have n't , so we have a very diverse membership . |
| 4 | I was last on the County Council between nineteen eighty one and nineteen eighty five , and I was on the Gipsy Working Party at that time , and nothing happened except scandalous public meetings where officers were , were allowed to be crucified by Conservative chairpersons and not a site appeared , public or private . |
| 5 | I was at the local high school . |
| 6 | I should add here that even as a junior at Halton I was in the senior cross-country team — which only people in their very last year were normally eligible to join and at this stage I was in my first year of three , I was allowed to go out on any occasion , in running gear , to train as I was a bona fide member of the team and so on one of these occasions when I was out training — I always wore a sort of towel around my neck which looked very professional at the time and quite unnecessary — I managed to conceal the altimeter , which had become very very hot property by this time because it was known that several instruments were missing and we could have a visit from the gendarme . |
| 7 | ‘ I was in the British amateur team for three years — which Pottz never was . |
| 8 | No , no , no you 've got it the wrong way round , I went , I brought you here and then I had to go back cos I was in the Royal Marine Police |
| 9 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 10 | So if you are dismissed before the agreed age , you might have a claim for breach of contract , but not for unfair dismissal if you are over the normal retiring age for colleagues in your class of work . |
| 11 | Well , well you could say that 's a very er a purely e em emotional er response and you can understand that , but I want to speak to you er Colonel Michael , you 're with the Royal Green Jackets . |
| 12 | ‘ She is of the old pure Wolfline , ’ said Fergus , meeting her eyes . |
| 13 | Then the tense silence was broken by a frightened whimper from Louise , held helpless as she was by the paralysing steel-fingered grip on her neck . |
| 14 | She was among the leading British singers of her generation , in constant demand particularly in oratorio and concert works . |
| 15 | She only took her sunglasses off when she was inside the dark little shop but even then it took a few moments for her eyes to adjust . |
| 16 | The more sensitive we are to the possible stigmatising consequences of charity , the less motivation there will be for giving . |
| 17 | Now that we are in the European Single market , the need for additional statistical reporting by VAT registered traders is on us . |
| 18 | We 're on the dear old elevated section of the M4 where lorries are so apt to break down when there 's a call for McDunn ; he takes the handset , listens and sucks his teeth for a bit , then says , ‘ Thank you . ’ |
| 19 | These essential components of a fair defence would not be available to a defendant , as they are beyond the compulsory judicial process of US federal courts . ’ |
| 20 | He said : ‘ We are bound to face criticism from both sides , from people saying we should be locking up thousands of juvenile offenders and throwing away the key and others throwing up their hands and saying they are like the old approved schools and will be universities of crime . ’ |
| 21 | Although individually insignificant , ants make up for this in sheer numbers and total biomass ; they are among the dominant extant organisms on Earth . |
| 22 | They were on the dusty painted dresser , on the shelves , and on a tin tray before a freckled old mirror that had been hanging in the bathroom . |
| 23 | They were for the gentle grey shirehorse , whose death he blamed on himself . |
| 24 | They were without the strong Provincial Town 's players Barry Moffatt and Jeremy Henry but late call-up Damien Olphert was very impressive playing third to Cookstown 's Colm McHugh . |
| 25 | They found their usual post at the pond and set up their gear ; it was hot and very humid , they were near the gated level crossing on the old trackbed . |
| 26 | Northamptonshire 's rural footwear centres were very different in character from the county 's estate villages but they were unlike the new Victorian settlements that had grown alongside coal mines , iron foundries and quarries . |
| 27 | It 's at a lovely venue it 's at the Great Central Railway at Loughborough . |
| 28 | But the language is very similar , erm , although it 's into the early modern English period . |
| 29 | And it 's about the free electrical checks for electrical gear . |
| 30 | No it 's from the , it 's from the other old budget , I mean it 's the cos it 's b all been rejigged but the overall impact is that Ma Mark has got six vacancies . |