Example sentences of "[adj] [unc] [noun sg] [pers pn] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still well I mean I know the majority of it 's wood and there 's three large windows in it , and a door and erm the roof is this erm stuff it 's just like er plastic moulding but it 's double glazed bloody oven in there ! |
| 2 | The girls , meanwhile , will have raced home , had a bath , washed and dried their hair , to return in either a ) the same quilted jacket , Alice band , and sensible skirt/shoes combination they were wearing before , plus a single string of pearls , or b ) an incredibly short and low-cut minidress , lip-gloss and handmade high heels . |
| 3 | U use this stuff instead of that er Eumobate It 's |
| 4 | But the men had to balance it up by , what they called chits , tha that came on every garment and how much er money they were getting for it . |
| 5 | Due to the diversity of Club 18–30 's programme it is not , unfortunately , possible to give information on each of the countries featured in this brochure . |
| 6 | In the early years of Henry IV 's reign it was primarily an official body executing his wishes . |
| 7 | And I had a catalogue the other day from a , an environmental erm agency it was n't Greenpeace it was something like that that were ac actually now offering these soap savers that we used to have in the war to press your bits of soap into Magazines were full of tips for saving fuel . |
| 8 | In the late l9th century it was apparently a normal party-piece to imitate a well-known literary figure , signing-off with the name of the victim ; this has caused some confusion today , where recordings ‘ signed off ’ by Sir Henry Irving and Oscar Wilde now have their authenticity questioned . |
| 9 | A a as you and various other people likely said erm a lot of people regarded it as a kind of act of erm racial er disloyalty I 'm not bothered about what race I am , I 'm just bothered about the truth , and the truth is that I think erm Moses was not Jewish well who 's to know , who 's to know erm as I said it 's a fascinating book and if , if you like that kind of detective story approach to history , you , you might , you might enjoy reading it , erm there are , i it raises a lot of other issues , many of which I 'll talk about in the , in the lectures , so I , I wo n't waste time say repeating it all here . |
| 10 | And you know they have a very distinctive characteristic do n't they , they have round faces and they 're short and they have slightly slanting eyes , etcetera etcetera , well these children have very marked physical erm appearance they 're fair haired and blue eyed the reason for that is that this substance venial alanine is responsible for the production of pigment , so if that 's interfered with they 're going to be fair haired and blue eyed , they get eczema a lot , they have small heads and they have very widely spaced teeth , sorry down a bit , is that what you want ? |
| 11 | It 's for a new er dictionary they 're bringing out about erm English spoken language |
| 12 | Customs revenue stood at c. £40,000 per annum in 1509 ; in the last years of Henry VIII 's reign it was still at that figure ; by 1550/51 it had fallen to £26,000 . |
| 13 | But in actual fact I think that for preliminary erm instruction I 'm , I would be better . |