Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [be] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alas , they were not safe , and what happened to them has been a matter of considerable argument . |
| 2 | Key among them has been a failure in the UK to build appropriate or adequate bridges between business , the universities , and other sources of innovation like the national laboratories . |
| 3 | Ballymena , still without the injured Stevie Smith , have something to prove from what for them has been a poor season . |
| 4 | Two other Section I matches see Schweppes Cup winners North Down entertaining North , with the aim of finishing third in the league to complete what for them has been a fine season . |
| 5 | These conflicts have , of course , had diverse and individual causes , but common to them has been a change in the political environment in which public enterprises operate . |
| 6 | For them driving is a relaxing hobby and its all about having fun … except that is when the judge is watching … |
| 7 | I mean is a carbonate erm an alkali ? |
| 8 | Erm I mean is a a British private limited company . |
| 9 | There may well be standard poodle in the Irish Water Spaniel but the Newfoundland I mean is a big heavy dog . |
| 10 | She was er I mean was a pop s ex pop singer , I 'd only just stopped singing a few weeks before I started to work with Sybil and she could not have been more gracious and generous in helping me get through it . |
| 11 | I mean was a man he was management . |
| 12 | So anyway er I mean being a keen motorcyclist I borrowed a Moto Guzzi last year , you know a big V twin , beautiful bike , I went up into Derbyshire and had a you know ride on it , and thought well that 's not bad , see I 've always had British bikes , and I think I might g I might get one of those , so I came back in the house put the helmet down and said hey that Guzzi 's not bad , I could get a decent one for about two thousand you know about nineteen eighty , you know nice Le Mans Two . |
| 13 | I said no you see she 's she 's a perfectionist , I mean being a perfectionist being halfhearted erm , you ca n't help it sort of thing , I suppose that , you know |
| 14 | and I said who 's that ? and he went oh god , shit we 're in the wrong tent and they went out and you can hear 'em I mean being a tent they 're laughing their head off for about half an hour |
| 15 | ‘ I liken being a creative music person to going to see a football game or rugby game . |
| 16 | I liken being a creative music person to going to see a football game or rugby game . |
| 17 | The basic situation which I contemplate is a patient in hospital refusing all but nursing attendance , or the patient at home refusing all care , even if it means that he will be left alone . |
| 18 | In Vienna , what was most distinctive was the type of bourgeois identity , which I argued was a ‘ baroque ’ identity , largely conditioned , as Carl Schorske noted , by the salient presence of a Catholic court nobility . |
| 19 | The first Star printer I owned was a 80-column thermal machine that was connected to an Osborne 01 CP/M machine . |
| 20 | That I stress is a preliminary view they could not and would not wish to make a final decision until they have all the information . |
| 21 | what I lacked was a foreign accent , almond eyes , straight or springy black hair , a black skin , a muscular physique , a mind full of difficult alphabets , a sense of rhythm , a pitiful history of slavery and oppression , and a massive member — though not necessarily in that order . |
| 22 | For the purposes of this discography I 've ignored the most obvious ‘ Skinhead ’ hits and chosen , with the help of some friends , what I trust is a fairly objective selection of the best , and most popular records from 1968 to 1971 . |
| 23 | My object , which I trust was a fair one , was never suspected , my position never questioned . |
| 24 | All I got is a ball of string and some bits of paper . |
| 25 | The manual actually fails to mention quite a lot and I only hope that the one I got is a prototype and not what the paying public will receive ! |
| 26 | What I got was a group of men who ranged from those with a more developed line on women 's issues than mine to those who were frankly misogynistic , and a woman who went on record as saying that , in her opinion , feminism put women off being lesbians . |
| 27 | Mind yer , all I got was a load o' lip . |
| 28 | Oh well I found was a very cheap place to live . |
| 29 | Their most important check is on whether someone has been a bad payer in the past . |
| 30 | All I caught was a greenfly and another filthy look . |