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Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [be] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	‘ No-one has been on this path for two days . ’
2	‘ A good dealer gives a service — everything I sell is in perfect condition and I buy back my stuff if need be . ’
3	Tagalog concepts are directly relevant to the present discussion because the Buid with whom I lived are in daily contact with Tagalog speaking immigrants from neighbouring islands .
4	And as for Leeds , the only boys I met were at teenage dances .
5	If I were back at the A squared , I squared is minus one , so I 've got minus three squared , there 's two give me by I Equals minus thirty nine , now because those two complex numbers are the same are the same , so sixteen is E S squared minus three square , the imaginary grids are also the same , so minus thirty equals two , eight B.
6	They occur more commonly , and surgery is more frequently practised upon them ; but what I say is of equal relevance to female-to-male transsexuals .
7	Which I suggest is after that workshop .
8	I 'd a lump on my head the size of a goose egg ; I 'd been through some kind of hell in the spaces ; I 'd prayed for … it was not what I 'd prayed for at all .
9	I 'd been to thirteen convents but I had n't really been to school properly because I was working by the time I was thirteen .
10	Yes that 's how that 's how it was , yes all I was on that gate , I 'd been on that gate myself dozens of times .
11	I 'd been on one of these trips before and the weather had been brilliant .
12	I 'd been at that school for two terms , eight months at the most .
13	I supposed I 'd been like that too , but I could n't remember .
14	How glad I 'd been in those first nights with him .
15	‘ If I 'd been in cold sobriety I would never have married her .
16	I 'd been in this business long enough to know he was lying and that something was going on . ’
17	After I 'd been in three years , I got married .
18	They all put in their tenpenny 's worth about what they thought should be filmed , but nobody asked my opinion , and I 'd been in more films than the rest of the cast put together .
19	‘ But he seemed genuinely interested , particularly when I told him I 'd been round one of the stations on a Come & See tour .
20	Most of the photographs I receive are of unsaleable objects , with a smattering from the lunatic fringe such as the lady from Virginia who wanted to sell the handcuffs used to detain Charles Manson when he was first arrested .
21	I hated being on social security and I tried everywhere for a job .
22	I remember being at primary school and the boys went to play football and you sat in the corner playing talking or the boys played football and the girls , would you believe it , got sex education !
23	I remember being in one time , with both ends in , like I were talking about , and we have n't got a road out , we Matter of fact we were trying to break through to another district .
24	I now wish to consider something that I believe is of acute importance to every Member of the House and to millions of people beyond it — the negotiations in which we are currently engaged on the intergovernmental conferences .
25	did n't mean that , what I meant was on this er exercise were , was it written down for instance that erm P C has Smith er Smith and Weston number thirty two ?
26	At least , all the other eighteen-year-olds I knew were like this , so I presumed it was normal .
27	Well , what I thought was with this one world week thing at least people that , who go might be more receptive to what we have to say to show and sell .
28	They get on fine , which I thought was against all the rules .
29	The figure that I gave was of those who are directly or indirectly affected by the opencast sector .
30	Well Boris Yeltsin this morning has said that he wants a veto over the use of nuclear weapons and about ninety percent of which I think are on Russian soil , that perhaps can be interpreted , additional safeguard to have another veto .