Example sentences of "and [pron] be [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He explained that his wife was a permanent invalid , unable to come to church , but said he : ‘ Since the day we got married we have shared everything we had and I am bringing this home to give to her . ’ ) |
| 2 | I 've found it difficult to work , have n't made any friends and I am dreading next year . |
| 3 | It 's 8:15 on Friday morning , and I am writing this letter in Chambers ' car park . |
| 4 | The business sponsorship incentive scheme has been a great success and I am giving further encouragement to sponsorship of the arts by increasing its budget by £1 million a year to £4.5 million . |
| 5 | The only problem is — Francisco and I are buying this villa from Mum and Dad . |
| 6 | People going and collecting and I 'm hoping first prize winner 's there . |
| 7 | We insist the conceptual design , and I 'm underlining conceptual design , is the responsibility of the function and section engineers , who have bottom line responsibility for each project . |
| 8 | Pamella ! ’ and I 'm just freaking out and hanging on to Tim Taylor , trying to get to the plane , and I 'm wearing this scarf on my head to cover my face and they had pulled a straw — they said this ! — for who was going to tear the veil from my face and this fat guy got it and ripped it , pulled my hair , poked me in the eye — I was physically assaulted ! |
| 9 | and I 'm using this stuff cos it 's better . |
| 10 | You 'll have a chance to come back on whether we have got the wrong impression on that , I mean I recall Mr Heselton 's quite clearly , but let me pursue that at a stage further if if we take that as our impression of what you have said collectively , and you are asked to make provision for nine thousand seven hundred dwellings , again collectively in the Greater York area , and I 'm addressing this question to the districts , what provision would you make in your districts of your district figure in the Greater York area ? |
| 11 | And these take it down off the counter and do it like this , and I 'm getting more strength in my hands , now , because I 'm using them to do more . |
| 12 | Servants are poor , and I 'm talking broke-I mean busted . |
| 13 | I 've just this minute got back to the flat and I 'm having some difficulty taking in your news . ’ |
| 14 | Potatoes , some broccoli erm Brian 's having kiev , chicken kievs Mary 's having something out of our bake something and I 'm having cold lamb . |
| 15 | I 'm working at the big hospital in Port au Prince , and I 'm doing some work for my book . ’ |
| 16 | Not now , no , we 're having dinner and I 'm doing this bingo for a minute look bring your |
| 17 | I , I , I understand all the work like and I 'm sitting in class and I 'm doing fine fuck all and then I come in and get a test like and he cracks up |
| 18 | When I left at two o'clock , Tally and I were addressing each other by first names ( ‘ Elliot ’ was strange to him and we settled for ‘ Ellix ’ ) and I was able to address the two waitresses by their first names without feeling uncomfortable . |
| 19 | Well they 've wanted a mid-field player and a good striker , now people well write letters to local press informing them of this , but they do n't seem to be prepared to do this , they , the managers want to do their own thing as far as I can see they think the people on the terraces do n't know anything , but Jim and I were saying last night they wanted a mid-field player for ages now all this season , a ball winner , they have n't had one since Willie used to play and |
| 20 | And I were to guess that learning together is also a model of rich and diverse possibilities . |
| 21 | So for instance if my backup window is an hour and that 's how long it take me to backup my database today , if had the backup server and I was using one device it took an hour , if I used two it would learn one dialect of S Q L. as |
| 22 | I could see my sister being nourished as I had been nourished , and I was demanding some sort of parity . |
| 23 | I suppose one of the things I use to demonstrate it most clearly is that for many years I s I gave lectures on communications and one of the things I used to say in those lectures was I did not know , and I was stressing that sense what came first if newspapers write stories in a particular way , because that is what the public wanted or do public want a particular type of story and that 's that newspapers round-up and I stopped posing that question when Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun because Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun and introduced a lot of sex-type stories you know stories about brothels and madames whipping people and goodness knows what else and the sales rocketed and there we had almost a captive example of change in the design of change in the type of stories that were written and people , people were buying it and so you have an issue of you know that your content was actually being by what your readership wanted . |
| 24 | I had , of course , been told by my surgeon that everything he could see he had taken out , On the other hand , I had chosen to explore further on my own and I was learning that cancer has this nasty habit of playing possum . |
| 25 | Oh I was bored to tears and I was eating whole time |
| 26 | It goes right into there , and I was staggering all day , you know when I would get up ? |
| 27 | And I was asked this week if it is possible to make up your own , rather than buy one of these metal affairs on wheels . |
| 28 | Like when you were in the other week and I was taking that class |
| 29 | I saved on the knitted things by making all his little woollies myself and I was given six baby vests . |
| 30 | After that , Mr Dance went away and I was given some food . |