Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [be] [adv] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | I kept thinking that perhaps you were still in Australia , but I expect that was just an excuse ! |
| 2 | I would have thought this was rather an enlightening view to take , but Semites erm , but there we are . |
| 3 | Not for the first time Charles reflected that growing up is a myth ; getting older is just an intenser form of childhood . |
| 4 | She also looked very young and unsure of herself , but Kate knew that was just an illusion . |
| 5 | True there 'd been found in Alicia 's desk , but everyone thought that was just an accident , now they began to wonder if someone had put them there , not Alicia , Lizzie would n't do a thing like that , but somebody , it was getting near half term and new the girls were excited because some of them were expecting visits from there parents . |
| 6 | The midwife said to me , ‘ This child has been on this earth before ’ and I thought that was rather an odd thing to say , but the midwife seemed quite adamant . |
| 7 | Dr Kallman of the Osborn Laboratory in New York felt this was probably an unwarranted addition to the list as its range had not been fully studies . |
| 8 | Hungry for political office , they knew this was only an inoculation . |
| 9 | If 14 days be a reasonable length of time in such a contract in this particular trade , and if he waits seven days before entrusting the goods to a third person on sale or return , that third person has the right to keep them as against him for 14 days , whereas the original owner has a right to the return of them within seven days from that date and I think that is clearly an act inconsistent with anything but his having adopted the transaction . ’ |
| 10 | Tt yeah yeah erm yeah I mean it 's interesting when you come to attitudes to parenthood erm I think that 's quite an important issue because it does tap into a whole range of things about erm you know kind of er suspicions that somehow if gay or lesbian people raise children then the children 'll either be , you know , sort of corrupted or converted themselves |
| 11 | Erm but he , I mean I think that 's quite an important |
| 12 | I think that 's quite an oversight . |
| 13 | He asked me to resign , but I think that was just an excuse to get rid of me because he 's jealous of my work ! ’ she finished baldly , quite unable to dress up the truth . |
| 14 | May I say Sandra I think this is probably an Inland Revenue ruling . |
| 15 | So maybe what we call imaginary time is really more basic , and what we call real is just an idea that we invent to help us describe what we think the universe is like . |