Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] be [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My my er my the convincing I have to do in myself and and you have to do it for me is whether this is is the right platform for you . |
| 2 | However , the basic thing for me is that most piano music is far more than something which is tailor-made for a certain instrument . |
| 3 | But what it meant to both of them was that all the money was frozen because there was a dispute over whose money was what and how much money had been spent — that was a problem for David and for Tony . |
| 4 | So really they the benefit of this to those of you is that that this end of Portugal is like that is it . |
| 5 | I mean sexy little telephone calls between he who will be king and his , is she a mistress , is she a girlfriend , is she merely a friend , but at any event she 's married and her husband 's in the next bedroom as far as we can gather , you know erm do those kind of conversations and would , I mean maybe it 's important to sort of say and Anne probably has this , but Peter might not , I mean when I grew up the Royal Family were a cert sort of image and you might have known about George the Third who was mad , I mean who else was brought up George the Third was mad and Geor an and this guy was a , a drunk and this guy was a a womaniser , this guy was this , but Victoria you know mourned for sixty years or whatever it was , but this Royal Family , I E the , the Royal Family with which I grew up and Anne did were really sweet nice little Windsors who behaved themselves and that was what was , went into our psychic and there was the odd crack about Phil the Great who 's the Queen 's husband , you know and how he perhaps had an eye for the ladies , but there was never any photographs of him being or any evidence that it might have gone further than that particular and basically there was , that any , there was the fact that he was a sailor when he married the Queen anyway so all sailors are like that are n't they ! |
| 6 | The pity of it is that this happens to be as beautiful a cat as the Sphynx is ugly . |
| 7 | And the worst of it is that this disturbing new trend has extended beyond the mall and into the magazine . |
| 8 | the real politics of it is that those labels are attached , and you know that as well as I do . |
| 9 | ‘ Apart from selling many more Reed titles , ’ he says , ‘ the key fact to come out of it was that more than half the customers who came into our shops to buy a promoted Reed title at a lower price bought on average two-and-a-half books at full price , and so the venture , as far as we were concerned , was highly profitable . ’ |
| 10 | And as for Mr Willi Stoph , the former prime minister , a major mark against him is that 100 different brands of whisky were found in his cellar — in other countries that would be admired . |
| 11 | The question before me is whether these assignments did have their intended effect for compensation purposes . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , perhaps the most startling statistic contained in it was that some one-third of the rail route mileage carried only about 1 per cent of the freight and passenger traffic , while one-half of the route mileage accounted for only 4 to 5 per cent of total traffic . |
| 13 | The trouble for him was that this manifesto — ‘ the longest suicide note in history ’ — had also made his party entirely unelectable . |
| 14 | ‘ What I feel you are saying to me is that this previous relationship is something you do n't want to talk about in front of Tom . |
| 15 | All that matters to me is that this technology will save Carly 's life . ’ |
| 16 | What is important to us is that all the areas will now use the same software for interrogation purposes , and as we develop new enhancements , details are released to all other areas . |
| 17 | What is particularly boring about it is that all the arguments are circular . |
| 18 | Now it was there that we became separated , I developed a very bad throat and could not fly , just before we were ready to leave for overseas as in his crew and the other crews that were there went on whereas I got held back and of course the way I feel about it is that that week that I got held back , saved my life . |