Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the answer is , each one secretly thinks he 's the best . |
| 2 | I says , ‘ You 'd better believe it 's the wrong club . ’ |
| 3 | The established , and now publicized , fact that women 's sexual capacity increases with age , at least until the late twenties , and stays at this peak for decades , while men 's is already declining , came as a shock both to men , who suddenly discovered they were the unlucky sex , and to women who had not realized what they had been missing . |
| 4 | ‘ Ipswich and Leicester lead the promotion race but this does not necessarily mean they are the best teams . |
| 5 | How long have you been the new director ? |
| 6 | That 's right , just say it 's the thirty one one ninety four . |
| 7 | She reached out and turned the clock towards her , blinking at the small ornate face , attempting to focus on the figures , trying to work out if it was twenty past twelve or twenty past one , finally deciding it was the earlier hour . |
| 8 | She seemed very nice and I thought she could act and we had a nice rapport , but I said to Sam , ‘ I just feel she 's the wrong type for a guy who 's a teacher in college . |
| 9 | No I think he generally thought they were the same thing , I think I would of done if I was n't an educationalist , but I mean it 's his business to know really is n't it ? |
| 10 | I walked alongside the men at the head of the column and soon learned they were the Black Watch , a well-known Scottish regiment . |
| 11 | Just Do It is the first long climb to reach the ranks of the modern desperate . |
| 12 | I have never said that Just Do It was the hardest route in the world — it 's one of the most difficult , and certainly the hardest of its type — that 's all . |
| 13 | But what most angered me was the last-minute timing of the intervention . |
| 14 | ‘ Why do Americans always think theirs is the only country that 's part of the modern world ? ’ |
| 15 | The only sign that anyone had ever occupied it was the flattened grass beneath the tree , where her blanket had been . |
| 16 | I 've always said he 's the best man for the job . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's always said I 'm the perfect man for long- ball football , but I can play anywhere you want me to . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've always said you were the best blacksmith I ever had . ’ |
| 19 | They 'd hardly believe it was the same man . ’ |
| 20 | He said : ‘ I still maintain we were the best team in the tournament until injuries caught up with us . |
| 21 | They still thought he was the top British sprinter . |
| 22 | How comforting to read Gill Rowley 's Pet-Hate List ( YWTU , October GH ) about the check-out trolley pushers — I always thought I was the only person in the world who wanted to reverse , screaming hysterically , ‘ Get back ! ’ |
| 23 | Always thought I was the shy one of us two . |
| 24 | I always thought I was the philandering type , but my mind keeps going back to her . |
| 25 | And as they run in er and I always thought it was the best of the show . |
| 26 | You know how I do , I could n't remember that I 'd actually started the the Easter term doing the erm choices etcetera , I always thought it was the later half of that term , the latter half of that term . |
| 27 | bathroom carpets we always do it 's the warm back |
| 28 | This is my 19th series of Wish You Were Here … ? and I 've seen television all over the world , yet I still think ours is the best . |
| 29 | And whichever sort they happen to be , they always think they 're the first of their kind . |
| 30 | ‘ He always said you were the whole brains of the column . |