Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] be [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But luckily I 'm a quick learner ’ , she says . |
| 2 | Suddenly I was the mature woman , faced with new kids in the workplace . |
| 3 | One day I will settle down , as they say , and raise a family and I look forward to it , for basically I am a home-loving person . |
| 4 | Or perhaps I am an avid correspondent . |
| 5 | Erm looking across from the Arms , one can see that , what I can only describe as a delightful bit of architecture , erm perhaps I 'm a little bit er of a philistine , but er I think it 's one of the nicest , most attractive buildings in the town . |
| 6 | Perhaps I 'm the first woman who has asked for their vote . ’ |
| 7 | Well I mean obviously I 'm the obvious alternative is er financial planning |
| 8 | Erm twenty second of July nineteen sixteen so I 'm a first war baby . |
| 9 | Er apparently she was a four year old er they searched for the mother , they found the mother and I understand now that the mother 's been charged with murder . |
| 10 | ‘ Perhaps she is a wealthy ward and Lackland plans to make her Queen of England . ’ |
| 11 | Perhaps you are a lonely person , and find that nature 's uncritical acceptance of you fills a gap in your own life . |
| 12 | But perhaps it would be nice if somebody gave you a gift voucher for Christmas and it said an eyebrow trim , and you were dying to have an eyebrow trim but you did n't know where to come , and perhaps you were a little bit frightened about having one , so , it might , you know , get you to come into the salon . |
| 13 | O K so she 's a doting mother , is that right ? what want . |
| 14 | So she was a whole year out . |
| 15 | So you 're the right person to ask the |
| 16 | So you 're the big boss are you ? |
| 17 | ‘ Basically we are an experienced team , but the youngsters are going to play a crucial role in trying to keep us up there . ’ |
| 18 | We also do a bit of assembly work — small engines and steering assemblies , I 'm trying to build it up — but basically we 're a general engineering firm , supplying components to the motor industry mostly . |
| 19 | So we are a mixed community of four Sisters from three orders . |
| 20 | But , but when you look at it we 're second from bottom so we are a bad team at this present time . |
| 21 | So we are the only Committee who are saving the , that 's taking our budget globally as , I think , I think it 's four point eight percent , if you want to be pedantic about it , but we are planning and that 's the only ones , if you take that mode of view , and if we took , if we took training out |
| 22 | Together we are a great nation . |
| 23 | Apparently they are the worst floods we have had in Suffolk since 1954 . |
| 24 | Mr. Graham : Perhaps they are the professional advisers who advised the Government to sell the royal ordnance factory in my constituency for a pittance to people who later recouped the price in one sale . |
| 25 | Perhaps they were the last days before the final eclipse . |
| 26 | So they 're the only ones you want to get rid of or are they the only ones you 've got ? |
| 27 | On the tides of Dublin or London they were hardly more than specks of froth but together they were the aristocratic Morans of Great Meadow , a completed world , Moran 's daughters . |
| 28 | Spread over sixteen pages ( I , 56–71 ) these remarks function as part of a story , but as soon as they are put together it is a dull mind which does not reflect , ‘ Power corrupts , and absolute power corrupts absolutely ’ . |
| 29 | Although this trio again blended well together it was the tremendous ability of McClure which sealed the ticket to Ayr . |
| 30 | Suddenly it was a new picture of Ted Mosse being presented . |