Example sentences of "and [pers pn] be [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ This year is the 21st anniversary of Durham Wildlife Trust and I am busy preparing for that .
2 Marion and I are living day by day .
3 Your father and I are worried sick about you .
4 And er as probably er you gathered Stan and I are both ex-policemen in relation to erm to er our our background and er I think I said yesterday to the er some of the guys as well , one of the things that lorry drivers and policemen do have very much in common is that we have pr probably one the shortest erm pension lives of most professions .
5 Well we smile but I 'm sure that 's by no me I 'm sure that 's not a unique case and I 'm sure things like that have happened to many of you .
6 And I 'm sure things like that do n't happen in your school .
7 Oh , well yes , I do , and I 'm sure Susy in fact I 've heard Susy doing it and I do n't know about Joanna .
8 And I 'm fifty-six years of age and I say what of it , ’ Malachi retorted .
9 He 's picked me for the Jack Gannon , and I 'm four months under age , and he says Hermia 's really improved . ’
10 Er , well I 'm , I 'm just in the middle of , I 'm sign writing a vehicle and I 'm half way through the letters and I 've got a , I 've got ta finish that off before I can get into my stock .
11 ‘ Only that my father 's dead , my stepmother 's ill , and I 'm worried sick about my grandfather !
12 Slater glanced at Graham , " Sara and I were next-door neighbours for a while , I do believe our parents may even have intended us for each other at one time , without actually saying anything about it , of course . "
13 Malc and I were all part of the same gang when we were 14 , sort of ‘ paired off ’ when we were 15 , and started putting our biology theory into practice at 16 .
14 The flight engineer and I were one-time apprentices at Trenchard 's , Halton , and he had left the Service at the end of his 12 years and returned when the war started .
15 Shopping in York is a pleasure — the atmosphere is relaxed and friendly , and you are guaranteed service with a smile .
16 And you 're more number in her little red book !
17 So if you were in the and you were forty years of age you were n't safe for going to the to go to the army .
18 And then she 'll sleep she wo n't sleep actually in the airing cupboard , she 'll sleep so the door 's wide open and she 's half way across the la , and she sleeps you know
19 And she is honorary secretary of the Association of Liberal Democrat Councillors , which also tackles live issues in the area .
20 ‘ I had a very close relationship with Johanna and she was good fun to be with , ’ he said .
21 There was a lot of transporter , and she was half way along it : too far in either direction to make it to safety .
22 God has raised this very Jesus from death , and we are all witnesses to this fact .
23 We have , even though we are Arabs and we are neighbouring countries like Saudi Arabia and the Emirates , but we have our own identity and it is very distinct .
24 And we are encouraging managers to be sympathetic to the sudden disruption of working hours that can be caused to a parent of either sex responsible for children .
25 It would have made it more difficult , but the way that Maxwell used to involve himself in bulk transfers , you know and move , move two hundred pensioners from there to there and er no money followed and this sort of thing , I think that er that he could of quite frankly done exactly the same thing and we really feel that the , that the role of the pension regulator and the and the opposing role with I M R O that , that you really if we 're not careful , we 're going to put in another layer of bureaucracy and have a pension regulator who 's got the task of of checking a , a hundred and twenty eight thousand pension funds , when really there 's probably out of those a hundred and twenty eight thousand , ninety-nine point five per cent of probably being very well well run and , and quite safe and what , what we ca n't really see in the report is a is a method of identifying the determined fraudster at a at a very early stage , you know and we 're just terribly disappointed that er that Good has just thrown the whole of , of the matter back at I M R O who we feel have proved to tha that I do n't think they 're up to the task , I think that the that the whole question of er of the power of a self regulatory body which to us works on blowing the whistle , you know the whole the whole effect of a self regulatory body is that it 's members that it , it 's really like a club is n't it , you know and we 're all members of this club and if one of us er is gon na do something wrong , then the rest of us are gon na have to pay for it .
26 Cos er , all the ones they have on the trains have got like Strawberry Hill and all the , that 's all included , but then you buy a general map and we 're all sort of cut off .
27 James right like Mr right he did n't know right and we have this sort of erm water fountain and he was running towards it and he , and he filled up his mouth with it and he was spitting it everywhere and we were all sort of getting out the way and Mr told him if you do n't want to drink it then leave it alone and he sort of turned and walked away .
28 and we 'd been up all night serving troops and er , you see , and then the Manager said , well look er now and have some breakfast before we get th another telegram and we were next door to the Telegram Office , you see , and when , when the erm war , during the war , you see , the man would come out of the Telegraph Office and he would say er and er , you see , all the lights went out except a few lights along the back of the counter .
29 ‘ She 's got a decent allowance and they 're wanting women in all kinds of work now .
30 you see the desert is a bit , the way , the planes in the desert in America , there 's over three in the , sort of billion dollars ' worth of planes all brand new , that companies ca n't afford to buy any more and they 're all mane in a sitting desert oh there we go , aha , aha , there we go
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