Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's you know it was all purely hypothetical the figures they produced but er they were comparing it to what we had pr previously been producing we all sort of realized that for a set production figure we could have been up to forty pound worse off , per week . |
| 2 | If we go back to the private 's utterance ‘ I 've been scrubbing them all morning and they wo n't come any cleaner ’ , we can relate it to these three layers as follows : |
| 3 | Paddy said , ‘ He 's been insulting me a' night . ’ |
| 4 | STEVE BACKLEY yesterday wrote off his chances of being fit to compete in this month 's European Cup and admitted that his continuing injury woes are causing him major concern . |
| 5 | A tradition says that the Emperor 's wife was ill with a disease that baffled the native doctors but the letter which was carried by the Ambassador suggests the true reason ; the Emperor 's sexual ability seems to have been causing him more concern than either his own or his wife 's health as he asked that the physician should bring ‘ some medicines that would provoke the venery ( encourage sexual indulgence ) ’ , in other words , he wanted an aphrodisiac . |
| 6 | But if we 're to handle it this way it 's got to be fast and we need every lead you can give us . ’ |
| 7 | he had , he had a definite attitude problem so they said they would relieve him of his contract oh that 's fair enough , they 're paying you good money and they expect you to work hard and that 's it but we finish at one o'clock next term |
| 8 | And you see the problem with erm depending on the unit , the bid off the spread etcetera , sometimes they 're paying us one pound ninety and it actually ends up in a nu mi minus unit situation |
| 9 | Er , you 're buying me that race for my birthday . |
| 10 | But since they put the token meter in , I 've just found they 're charging me nine pound for token meter as well as the meter ! |
| 11 | But you you do n't want to you do n't want to see that you 're doing it that way . |
| 12 | We 're doing it next week ! |
| 13 | When we 're doing it this way , we can forget about the , with this X , X two is going to be three point one squared |
| 14 | And that would be , that would be , so if we 're doing it this way , right , let's let's erm , forget about where we are sitting at the moment now , and just look we 're in a helicopter looking at these ships now , so this one radios you in the helicopter and says , that ship S is on a bearing of forty five degrees |
| 15 | Cos you 're following the instructions , and you 're giving me one answer . |
| 16 | One point , just to add to what Liz is saying , and I support everything she 's said , one further point is that accuracy is terribly important because if you actually have a mistake in the press release , and the editors publish it or it 's broadcast and a whole lot of listeners or readers write in and complain , they 'll find it very hard to forgive you because they get themselves in a terrible problem , so do be sure you 're giving them accurate information all the time . |
| 17 | On the one hand you 're giving them extra responsibility so yes the bigger might be bigger for that reason . |
| 18 | It could be that you 're giving them some stuff that we already know or it could be that you 're giving them some stuff which is far too advanced for them , they do n't have the basics there . |
| 19 | It could be that you 're giving them some stuff that we already know or it could be that you 're giving them some stuff which is far too advanced for them , they do n't have the basics there . |
| 20 | Well , what the government has said today is that they 're giving us some money to help us to take it and boost it a bit further and we 're very pleased to see that . |
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| 22 | Yeah they , they 're telling you one part of the story |
| 23 | So they 're saying this is an ex gratia payment in other words they 're offering you that payment as er some compensation for the fact that you 've losing your job . |
| 24 | From what you said , I did n't think that you were very settled , so I am sending you this note via Mum — I suppose you may go home to see the new baby , anyway ? |
| 25 | My dear , he was holding it exactly as if it had been a squashed blackbeetle , and I knew he 'd been criticizing me all evening . |
| 26 | ‘ Woolacombe has been expecting him this age , and not a word from the man to anyone ! ’ |
| 27 | Been doing it all week so I might as well get it over all in one week , like . |
| 28 | He 'd been doing it all evening . |
| 29 | Yes , I 've been doing it all evening , I was trying to suppress them all the way through politics lesson . |
| 30 | He 's been doing it last year on this foot mm , I think it was claw . |