Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [pron] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You are not going to have them say you are some kind of dickhead . ’ |
| 2 | His main concern is that although eight million people in the UK have the herpes virus , only half of them realise they are infectious . |
| 3 | Grubby little man he may be — he shits in my presence without embarrassment — yet in his thought I perceive he is fastidious . |
| 4 | I regret I 'm sorry . |
| 5 | But Walsh said : ‘ I deny there 's bad blood between Bull and me , there 's no vendetta . |
| 6 | By opportunities for learning that can be at depth , about learning about ourselves , but also the practical things like what do you say to a child whose father 's come back mutilated from war erm how do you write a letter to a bereaved person , and I think children I mean they are capable of doing this , I 've seen it with my own children , with some help they 're able to express quite deep emotions , you know , to somebody who 's had a bereavement , and if they can learn that now , you know , it 's going to be a lot easier later on . |
| 7 | I mean they are concerned about their employees , they are . |
| 8 | Mm I mean they are perishable if delayed are n't they ? |
| 9 | I do n't know if you remember but ages ago , round about October time she borrowed some stuff for the Brownies , for erm , for Sian , Sian was going camping and she had n't got shorts or anything , so she borrowed it off me , I was thinking of Stacey starting , I wanted the t I 'm not bothered about the shorts , but I want the T-shirt and I 'm just gon na get Stacey the culottes and she can wear her shorts and the cardigan with it buy , when she first starts and then we could , Deana 's moving up to Guides this , so she can have that sweatshirt of er , I mean they 're nine pound |
| 10 | Well no I mean they 're each gon na play each other obviously but you see England , New Zealand and Sri Lanka and West Indies have all got two points from one game , Australia , India , Pakistan and Zimbabwe have all lost so they 've got no points from one game , South Africa have still to play . |
| 11 | The , the problem that I find in , in , in doing the role plays and I mean they 're good what we 're doing , but because you 're , you 're doing bits here and bits there |
| 12 | I mean they 're good hotels those . |
| 13 | Yeah , I 've got a Cortina estate , I mean they 're good old work busters these are n't they ? |
| 14 | I mean they 're normal to us but they 're not normal to other people , so why should we make them normal to them , just to please society ? |
| 15 | That 's all that 's separating them , I mean they 're close together |
| 16 | They actually set up villages , which are in erm you know usually in rural er surroundings , and erm er they have erm usually I mean they 're mentally-disabled people there , and erm er they set up the village so that there are able- bodied people in there , and yet they live with the er mentally disabled people , you know they have houses and they the erm in inverted commas normal people have erm children and all this sort of thing , erm and yet they have erm er some of these mentally defective people living with them in the house , |
| 17 | You know I mean they 're terrible drivers . |
| 18 | could do , I mean if I was setting the exam I probably would , sort of , you know people know roughly about , I mean they 're all going to drive cars one car . |
| 19 | Have you heard these quiz sho I mean they 're all on radio four are n't they ? |
| 20 | I mean they 're all basically for different schools anyway , but it just so |
| 21 | They should all be the same , let's put them together anyway , even if they 're not , we should put them together because erm I mean they 're all part of the same company anyway . |
| 22 | I mean they 're all history . |
| 23 | I mean they 're all usable . |
| 24 | No , no , they complain to us because so does the secretary , I mean they 're all very nice , they know us and they like us , talk to them when we go there , but any sign of a noise , somebody I 'll be on the phone to me . |
| 25 | grotty I mean they 're all in bin bags |
| 26 | I mean they 're all , they 're all this walkman , not , but , . |
| 27 | Well there 's Lewis and Pringle and Reeve and Defreites and Tuftnot , I mean they 're all bowlers |
| 28 | Oh I thought oh I , I , I seemed to remember the Whitney Bay bit and I mean I do n't know what I 've done with the blinking programme last year , I mean they 're all in the magazine rack , but I do n't think that one 's there that was terrific that were n't it ? |
| 29 | Well I think so , I mean they 're all good company by the looks are n't they and |
| 30 | Cos they 're , I mean they 're nice sort of wrapped up . |