Example sentences of "[pron] be [adj] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Catherine did not speak of this matter again , but I am sure Heathcliff often thought about it . |
| 2 | Would I be left way behind ? |
| 3 | And then seven months later , everybody 's in a jam because 270 innocent people died at Lockerbie — and I 'm odd man out . |
| 4 | I 'm five foot then |
| 5 | I 'm changing paste anyway . |
| 6 | Oh you 're , you 're that bit further , well I suppose I 'm that bit further really |
| 7 | She told a reporter from the Chicago Tribune ‘ I 'm titular head only . |
| 8 | Oh so I 'm bloody back down again |
| 9 | I 'm sure Daddy never meant any harm . |
| 10 | Andy says , oh we 've got ta add a new buffer in here so I 'm shifting stuff around and adding capacitors and |
| 11 | I 'm four year now . |
| 12 | I used to do that when I was working and I had to leave at half four , used to do our kids , see when that clock gets to nine waken me I 'm fucking cold out our Ashley said mummy it 's after nine |
| 13 | Well I did n't tell him it he can wind it just erase it I mean I do n't I said I 'm alright love just to do all that , I 've got twenty tapes ! |
| 14 | D' ya know , I got weighed on my scales other day , and I thought , I were eleven stone again . |
| 15 | I was nervous standing there in front of the crowd . |
| 16 | She says that I , I , Jackie I was so , sure I was one second away from |
| 17 | The Scot said : ‘ I was one punch away from knocking him out in the fifth and if I had n't been injured , I would have finished him . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I was assistant manager there , but I was n't under contract , ’ he explained . |
| 19 | ‘ People said I was brave setting up a company at such a time , ’ recalls Mr Chambers , adding ‘ Brave ’ is a back-handed way of saying ‘ You 're mad ’ . ’ |
| 20 | I was some way behind , it was misty , and when I got there I could n't see him . |
| 21 | When I was half way up an escarpment , I saw a signpost at the top , too distant to read . |
| 22 | I was half way out of the door . |
| 23 | So I was half way there then was n't I |
| 24 | I was half way down the alley between the walls with the hope bright before me that my patient would be improved when from nowhere an appalling explosion of sound blasted into my right ear . |
| 25 | They are forces which are spreading wealth faster than at any time in human history and in one 's political approach I think you either are an enthusiast anxious to embrace the forces that are at work or you are a sceptic , perhaps inclined to resist them , hoping that you can frustrate them . |
| 26 | She was made to stand naked on two stools which were some yard apart . |
| 27 | Advances in the field of cosmetics mean that today superfluous ingredients and allergens can be identified , then substituted or removed , which is great news indeed for anyone with a sensitive skin . |
| 28 | whether it 's the afternoon or an evening or weekend it 's still the same price , but the , the mental patient actually employs you , you 're not employed by the hospital , but they can only give you ten hours a week which is five session so that 's only sort of twenty seven quid a week so you 're |
| 29 | Too much sun , for example helps trigger the premature bolting to seed of some crops in summer , which is one reason why later sowings of radishes , salads or spinach are much better situated in a cool , shady bed . |
| 30 | For Raskolnikov is incorrigibly patrician and rare at heart ( which is one reason why the Epilogue does not convince ) , even if I have overstressed the Hamletish side to him . |