Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've found it difficult to work , have n't made any friends and I am dreading next year . |
| 2 | People going and collecting and I 'm hoping first prize winner 's there . |
| 3 | Sorry , that was , I 'm sorry , you 've spo I 'm sorry you 've spoken , I 'm just commenting will you be quiet please , I 'm taking next speaker . |
| 4 | One with wounds to his leg , I 'm administering first aid ’ |
| 5 | This this is what I 'm saying last time that if you 'll work through it , understand it , Oh yeah I can do that , |
| 6 | I 'm going next door . |
| 7 | Yeah because I 'm doing second year abnormal from two til three so you might be able to catch me at three |
| 8 | Well they 've wanted a mid-field player and a good striker , now people well write letters to local press informing them of this , but they do n't seem to be prepared to do this , they , the managers want to do their own thing as far as I can see they think the people on the terraces do n't know anything , but Jim and I were saying last night they wanted a mid-field player for ages now all this season , a ball winner , they have n't had one since Willie used to play and |
| 9 | My reply was , ‘ Oh , please promote me — I was fired last time ! ’ |
| 10 | The targets I was given last year in my appraisal were n't covered at all this year in my appraisal by the manager , |
| 11 | One only has to look at the Shropshire structure plan in which I was involved last year , and the Department of the Environment in that case had allowed the facility for new settlement without locational criteria . |
| 12 | I was trying last year to try to see if I could get a erm an Indian , you know when we sort of do looking at Asia |
| 13 | I was playing last night Got ta learn this album I used to have ages and ages ago fucking . |
| 14 | ‘ I was approached last year by Lawrence Barnett [ chairman ] to sort things out . |
| 15 | Now , my theory that I was proposing last week about preferential parental investment in sexy sons or little boys who showed phallic behaviour , is a consequence of the Trivers Willard principle , because basically what it says is that little boys who advertised , as it were , in their childhood , evidence of their own adult reproductive success by precocious sexuality towards the women of the family and aggression towards the males , might be rewarded by preferential parental investment , a Trivers Willard effect in other words , and if , when they grew up , those oedipal sexy sons were in fact more reproductively successful , then the result would be a kind of self-perpetuating cycle of parental investment in oedipal sons who then grew up to be more reproductively successful than non-oedipal sons and , and so on . |
| 16 | I was wondering last night if it might be the hand of fate . |
| 17 | Well I think the the er other point I was making last week was that erm this whole are of learning theory is erm y'know a very traditional area . |
| 18 | ‘ He asked me what I was doing last night , and then one or two questions about mother . ’ |
| 19 | That 's what I was doing last night . |
| 20 | The stuff I was doing last night . |
| 21 | No , for that job I was doing last night . |
| 22 | That 's what I was quoted last week . |
| 23 | Other winners in the awards ceremony seen as a pointer to the Hollywood Oscars which are announced next week included Silence of the Lambs star Anthony Hopkins . |
| 24 | A STRATHCLYDE region official has ‘ unreservedly apologised ’ for remarks linking genetics and the intelligence of Asian and black children which were condemned last week by community leaders . |
| 25 | It 's just those lapses ( which were punished last year ) which we ca n't allow to happen . |
| 26 | It follows the company 's 1.6″ high 0663 , 250,000 of which were shipped last year according to IBM . |
| 27 | THE RESULTS of the June agricultural census for 1992 , which were published last week by the Scottish Office Agriculture and Fisheries Department , show substantial increases in the areas of wheat , oilseed rape , and fallow land . |
| 28 | The weather was kind for the Golden Jubilee Celebrations of the Henley Golf Club which were held last weekend and large numbers of members and friends attended and were very appreciative of the arrangements which had been made . |
| 29 | Like all Mercantile and General-owned farms , two of which were sold last year and a fourth is also under offer , it had been well-maintained . |
| 30 | The Wolfson Archaeological Science Laboratories , which were opened last year in the first phase of the institute 's development plan , represent the latest advances in archaeology and incorporate modern developments in technology . |