Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Me elder brother was in the First World War and he er he got married and er she was a flighty sort of girl and she was n't attending to er Mabel properly , the little girl , she had a girl and a boy . |
| 2 | One of a family of six and me elder brother was me bro me dad had a little business in the keys in and er they were hard times and me elder brother we used to go and work for him because me dad said he must and er from , after school I used to go and perhaps do the errands or a bit of filing , the odd jobs and all that sort of thing and I grew up with locks and keys and files from twelve , even before I left school . |
| 3 | Cancer has taught me that life is n't a dress rehearsal , this is it and you only get the one chance . |
| 4 | Do n't try to tell me that life is fair . |
| 5 | The next day , some well-planted flowers and a nippy little spider that jumped quite considerable chasms to get to where it wanted to go showed me that juice was still to be had for Life and , quite soon after , I found bits of myself on a train looking out at the curious modern mixture of silver birch trees growing on slag heaps . |
| 6 | My mother told me that Dad was on one of his frequent business trips to America and would be home in a couple of days . |
| 7 | And do n't , ’ she said with sudden vehemence , ‘ do n't tell me that suffering is part of the Almighty package . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ … the guy called me the minute he got back to his office and he said : ‘ Mo do you agree with me that judge was as wet as hell ? ’ and I said : ‘ If you so say but he was sure swimming in the right pool . ’ |
| 9 | And they 'll quote to me that inflation 's at two percent . |
| 10 | You tell me that Bill is at home and either he is drunk or he is sober . |
| 11 | ‘ The sun taught me that history is not everything . ’ |
| 12 | He had always told me that education was a waste of time and he could n't see the point of it . |
| 13 | Leo Lloyd was monastically devoted to his job — it is difficult for me to realise it was all done in his spare time — … he persuaded me that acting was infinitely fascinating . |
| 14 | It does seem to me that philosophy is much more effective when combined with some ‘ first order ’ discipline , than when taught in isolation . |
| 15 | But a friend , who arrived from Baghdad in the middle of February , informed me that morale is now high . |
| 16 | They tell me that Tamsin is out on a boat at an all-night party with two or three hundred other people and a stack of booze . |
| 17 | I do n't know about you , but for me that discovery was an overwhelming experience which brought tears . |
| 18 | Their Northern Ireland president is Billy McCormick from Craigavad who tells me that membership is 200 and rising , and new recruits are always welcome . |
| 19 | I do n't know how much Oliver 's told you about the Shakespeare School , but take it from me that place is tacky : how it got its registered status I shudder to think . |
| 20 | One of the numerous girls in the film , Catherine Schell , told me that Lazenby was never difficult or temperamental . |
| 21 | Ms Hurst , who works at Unilever 's environmental engineering department in Port Sunlight , Wirral , said : ‘ The family has told me that Berend is making great strides towards a full recovery . |
| 22 | But they also prove to me that television is capable of handling myth and that , in confining the medium largely to information and ephemeral diversion , we underestimate its aesthetic potential.M.B . |
| 23 | He was still sufficiently sane to remind me that Orvieto was perched on the top of a craggy escarpment . |
| 24 | During the damp November evenings when the gas lamp flickered in the wind , nothing would convince me that danger was n't lurking in the eerie shadows . |
| 25 | She had seen the film , too , and I received a letter some time later from her husband , Mr Hallows , telling me that Odette was not in the best of health and they were moving house . |
| 26 | Letterman had previously told me that flashback is a device which must be used sparingly , yet now he was a plausible advocate for this treatment . |
| 27 | To you 't is prison , to me that prison is like a garden ; to me the most absolute state of occupation ( with the world ) had become ( a state of spiritual ) freedom . |
| 28 | But in any case , it seems to me that resuscitation is a mechanical problem , to do with parts and labour rather than seances or last suppers . |
| 29 | In those circumstances , under the law as I hold it , it seems to me that rent is payable at the full rate for the quarters ending September 29 and December 25 , 1945 . |
| 30 | I am also grateful to Brian Watkins who was the first to put the idea to me that drama is a game . |