Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [conj] [pers pn] [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't like it when people take monies from people and forget or pretend that we are the faceless people . |
| 2 | When they read to us they do n't skip bits , or mind if it is the same story over again . |
| 3 | According to Hazlitt , ‘ Man is the only species who can laugh or cry because he is the only being who knows the difference between what is and what should be ’ . |
| 4 | Stavros Niachos , 81 , will neither confirm nor deny that he was the buyer of Yo , Picasso , the 1901 self-portrait of the artist at his easel , staring boldly out at the new century ; but it certainly went to the bidder who has often acted on his behalf . |
| 5 | My partner then called out a number of articles and asked if they were the chosen one . |
| 6 | Suffering fever , blindness and paralysis , they reached Lake Tanganyika in 1857 but it was Speke who eventually found Lake Victoria and realized that it was the reservoir which fed the great river . |
| 7 | warrants and represents that it is the true and lawful owner of all rights in the Work and the Converted Text of the Work as well as the Trade Marks and that such Work , Converted Text of the Work and Trade Marks do not and shall not infringe the rights of any third party and that is fully empowered to make this Agreement . |
| 8 | He discovered that Bob was twenty-five , four years his junior , and realised that it was the first time since his brother Joe 's marriage , when they were seventeen and twenty , that he had had a companion of roughly his own age . |
| 9 | Summoned to collect a donation from an address on the east side of the city , a few days before the Election , I noticed a poster in the window , and realised that it was the home of a candidate ( now the Member ) for Leith . |
| 10 | Widgery 's colleague , an NUS vice-president , conveniently ignored the other fifteen people sharing the post and announced that he was the vice-president . |
| 11 | Then a young woman — dark , quite a looker if you liked that sort of thing but a bit too full of herself for Bennett 's liking — walked into the club and announced that she was the dinner guest of Sir Robin Day , he could only treat her to his coldly disapproving smile and direct her to the ladies ' bar . |
| 12 | One can only just go on hoping and praying that it is the best and not the worst that has happened . |
| 13 | The Liberal Democrats write to The Scotsman and say that they were the first to back the consortium . |
| 14 | Melancia , who resigned after being served with a summons in connection with the alleged bribery , denied all charges of corruption and maintained that he was the innocent victim of a politically motivated smear campaign . |
| 15 | ‘ I think that if you first come and show that you 're the boss , then you 're O.K. , and the children will turn round and like you for it . |
| 16 | ‘ Aah 'll 'ave a word , ’ she offered , having noticed the way Martha 's eyes followed Bob Lamb and believing that he was the trouble . |
| 17 | This problem is not so common with the bell and pad as it is the alarm doing the waking of the child and the child is already wet . |
| 18 | He had acknowledged similar courtesies a number of times since riding out , and guessed that it was the sable hat of a Khan which he carried in his hand which was attracting recognition , rather than his actual eminence . |
| 19 | Edward Morris smiled and nodded but it was the stranger who spoke . |
| 20 | If we take a social view of language , and accept that it is the possession of the community as well as internal to speakers ' minds , we must be prepared to accept that reversal of merger can take place in this way , so long as speakers know that meat is an alternating class . |
| 21 | To strengthen your hair prior to a perm and ensure that it is the best possible condition , apply a combination of protein and moisturising treatments . |
| 22 | Then said he , I am Saint Lazarus , and know that I was the leper to whom thou didst so much good and so great honour for the love of God ; and because thou didst this for his sake hath God now granted thee a great gift ; for whensoever that breath which thou hast felt shall come upon thee whatever thing thou desires to do , and shalt then begin , that shalt thou accomplish to thy heart 's desire , whether it be in battle or aught else , so thy honour shall go on increasing from day to day ; and thou shalt be feared both by Moors and Christians , and thy enemies shall never prevail against thee , and thou shalt die an honourable death in thine own house , and in thy renown , for God hath blessed thee ; — therefore go thou on , and evermore persevere in doing good ; and with that he disappeared . |
| 23 | E and remember that it 's the E just above middle C. |
| 24 | though this a bit rich and observed that it was the study 's authors who proposed , in effect , to remove directors ' responsibilities for judgmental matters and vest them in an omniscient panel of assessors . |
| 25 | I ’ Clubs must look at the players they are registering and decide if they are the type we want in the League , ’ he said . |
| 26 | In view of the evasive comments he later made on this latter episode ( Canon Demant tells of his being pressed by some German students and saying that he was the last person to be able to answer them ) , I believe that he had experienced a moment of horrifying self-revelation ‘ of all that he had done and been ’ and thought , which had opened up a wound that could not heal . |
| 27 | Coming up to him offering him sour wine and saying if you 're the King of the Jews save yourself . |
| 28 | Virgin had , to a large extent , been built on Branson 's abilities at man-management and manipulation — his unrivalled capacity , as one friend put it , ‘ to get people to do things for him , and feel that they are the ones who have been done a favour ’ . |
| 29 | One alternative is to distinguish the constitution of individuals as intentional subjects who reason , choose and decide , from their constitution as capitalists , workers or lumpenproletariat , and to argue that it is the particular roles of a society which give rise to the need for legitimation . |
| 30 | One temptation is to characterize cattle stealing as a traditional activity , and to argue that it was the victim of modernization . |