Example sentences of "[pron] be [adv] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | They , the vast majority of them are not Shire Hall based er , administrative staff or what I think is generally er , the view , er , the general view of , of management and support . |
2 | Do you want a fire retardant one or just in interestingly enough , the ones that have got price offers on them are n't fire retardant . |
3 | When I listen to my radio I am only marking time . |
4 | While I owe much to that tradition and trust that I am still persona grata within it , in many respects I have gone beyond Evangelical thought on matters to do with the Church and sacraments . |
5 | I 'm not barm cake . |
6 | ‘ I 'm not parent material , Ari . ’ |
7 | He said , ‘ If it reassures you at all , I 'm not Drugs Squad and I 'm not Special Branch . |
8 | I 'm not Poison Ivy You can throw |
9 | But now I 'm just deciding I 'll live off invalidity benefit for a wee while longer , leaving that in the hands of my my managing director and somebody else and the money that 's coming through from the Queen and whatever I 'm just gon na live on invalidity benefit , I 'm only drawing invalidity benefit , I 'm not gon na get any more money than invalidity benefit . |
10 | I , you know I do n't mind , I enjoy handicraft but I find I 'm out Monday playing darts , I 'm out Tuesday doing handicraft and I look after a little boy who 's got Cerebral Palsy four mornings a week and comes three in the afternoon and it 's quite a lot . |
11 | I was not Boat Race standard , but I got by at the level of intercollege competition . |
12 | I struggled up to show I was n't wolf meat . |
13 | I was n't chewing gum though , I was eating sweets |
14 | I was subsequently Chief Constable of the combined Sheffield and Rotherham Police Force which whilst a joint committee , still regarded so very much as serving the two separate authorities and finally I was Chief in a Metropolitan country , with a county council and a police committee and I 'm quite sure that the police were much more sensitive to the needs and the wishes of their local communities when you were sitting at one of those , not necessarily police committee meetings , but the county council meetings , when they discussed the minutes of the police authority . |
15 | She go we were all talking about , you know , Christmas shop shopping , and L B comes in and goes yeah well when I was out Christmas shoplifting |
16 | She came across for the first time today , I was out egg yard getting some eggs |
17 | I was there Saturday night er , and Saturday evening and erm what 's her name ? |
18 | . However , after about eighteen month at , as a yard foreman , as I say I was still branch secretary of Portobello branch , and carrying on as usual , er I put in for There were this yard inspectors job wanted at Street Station . |
19 | No I was only garrison artillery on guns . |
20 | I was er Chairman of Public Health and various chim , I was Chairman of the Road Safety , which I was very interested in I was very road safety conscious and we each were given a job which we tried to do the best we could with and then we well , whatever we were asked to do we began to make a good town , you know ? |
21 | These would include adjustment for items which are not tax deductible ; for example entertaining , and items for which special reliefs are given ; for example capital expenditure where allowances at certain specified rates can be claimed instead of depreciation as shown in the accounts . |
22 | It it helps chairman er I could refer to the survey that we did erm of I think it was six erm industrial estates or employment er estates around the district , and they vary from modern business parks which are mainly office type developments through to some traditional and trading type estates . |
23 | The positive non-inflammatory bowel disease culture also grew acid fast bacilli which were not M paratuberculosis . |
24 | Ciccolini tends to adopt slow tempos here — too slow , I feel , in the initial étude ‘ for the five fingers ’ , and in those for fourths octaves ( not emporté here ) , and chords , and much too deliberate in the one ‘ for the eight fingers ’ which is n't molto leggiero e legato . |
25 | The Council tax is a hybrid tax , which is both part property or household tax and part personal tax . |
26 | Which is why Londoners north of the Thames think going south of the river is like stumbling into the left-over servants ' quarters , down in the basement where decent folks do n't go . |
27 | Overall though , gay is good , which is why Sam Snort welcomes the proposed decriminalisation of homosexuality on the part of the Progressive Democrats . |
28 | The biggest risk factor of all is an inherited predisposition , which is why life insurance salesmen run a mile when they hear that your dad died of a coronary at 35 . |
29 | They may be at the root of colic , which is why lactose intolerance is important here . |
30 | It 's in Oxford Brookes University , which is probably Oxford Poly |