Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Christmas 1943 I was asked by Air India to broadcast a Christmas message to Christians in Southeast Asia , which I was glad to do , having our Christian friends of different races in Burma much in mind . |
| 2 | Some time towards the end of 1943 I was approached by the US Office of War Information to see if I would join their staff as adviser on Burmese subjects and language . |
| 3 | ‘ That was n't Spanish I was talking to you in . |
| 4 | In 1971 I was hoping for great things , because the British Open was at Birkdale , my home-course , but Tom could n't handle Birkdale . |
| 5 | Now if I 'm going to hand out leaflets on the corner in Dayton , you 're damn right I 'm going to the convention now I have the entré . ’ |
| 6 | Yes , that 's right I 'm going to next Sunday as well . |
| 7 | All good stable I 'm talking about , I 'm not talking about ten-a-penny ones , you know ? |
| 8 | While I was hooded I was dreaming of how to accomplish this . |
| 9 | That 's if I get a fucking eleven I 'm gon na kick them up there ! |
| 10 | Faced with a fact that was visually undeniable I was snared in the total impossibility of ‘ understanding ’ it . |
| 11 | Yeah , sorry I was going to ah er do , do you find that er the criminals are not taking notice of alarms off now because they know that people will be |
| 12 | Okay can you all I 'm sorry I was talking to the study group . |
| 13 | Duw , there 's sorry I was to hear of his death , a fine man was Dewi Morgan . |
| 14 | So sorry I 'm looking at the wrong the wr that is the southern bypass . |
| 15 | I 'm sorry I 'm gon na pay for that , and I 'm sorry about that Maureen . |
| 16 | ‘ Is n't that interesting/ I was struck by … ’ |
| 17 | When I say it like that I 'm struck by how near that is to Pope 's ‘ What e'er was thought / But ne'er so well expressed ’ definition of poetry . |
| 18 | Right , with that I 'm gon na take you on if you 're all agreed , and I think you 've already agreed , some of you , most of you , that we go on to item nine . |
| 19 | Thank you very much , and I 'll , I 'll get that I 'm gon na go over to Peterborough this afternoon , I 'll drop it all in , they 'll send it to Norwich and I 'll get it off to you okay , great , thanks very much . |
| 20 | Since I 've started with that I 'm gon na carry on . |
| 21 | I am , I was born in Essex , in in hospital and my family all come from Essex , and I was brought up in Upminster and I was very fortunate in that I was born into a christian home and I had christian parents and christian grandparents and christian aunts and uncles and I went to church from the time I was about two or three weeks old . |
| 22 | And by that I was looking at er things like discussing with Alan that I felt we were un under , had , had less management time than we should . |
| 23 | After that I was blacked by the quality schools , but I soon landed a job for the rest of the year with a cowboy outfit in Italy who needed a replacement teacher in a hurry . |
| 24 | After that I was put with foster parents , staying with them in the country for about nine months . |
| 25 | Right , I was subject to a , an assault that was quite frightening erm in that I was working in a shop on my own and er someone came into the shop and locked the door behind me and tried er to pull me down towards the back of the shop and er apart from being very frightened I find it difficult to accept that I was just an innocent victim , I kept making excuses that this person who did it to me did n't mean to frighten me he , only could n't communicate that he , he , he said it eventually when I managed to fight him off he said , I just wanted to give you a kiss and er I find it very difficult and I had to be forced to go to the police erm to tell them about this because I thought you know its just a misunderstanding and , but it was terrifying |
| 26 | T is awful I was taught as a child in catechism the labourer is worthy of his hire there are four sins that cry out to heaven for justice one of them is a oppressing the widow and orphan and the other is defrauding the labourer of his hire because the labourer is worthy of his hire that 's a sin that cries to heaven for justice , that 's what I was taught as a child . |
| 27 | I still believe that that someone is to come by the name of David and setting up of God 's kingdom but but |
| 28 | in simply why not and simply hoping that someone 's gon na go out and buy your brand of petrol for example erm I think for me it 's erm there are so many messages flashed at people every day erm do this , do that , buy our product instead of X and X's product but when you 've paid , when you 're faced with that purchase decision , and I , I would say perhaps this is true for most people from most jargon . |
| 29 | the paper and this report introduces the draft version of the highly transportation from it with consultation of organization down in the business , some whom are listed in section two |
| 30 | From this I was wakened by a strange , very beautiful twanging music , coming from all about me . |