Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says " I am but a signpost pointing the way " . |
| 2 | ‘ Dear lady , I am but an errand boy in the Foreign Service … ’ |
| 3 | But remember , I am but the Prince 's hands . ’ |
| 4 | Disgusted as I am that an estate full of innocent people can be used as pawns in a much more complex and devious game , this threat comes as no surprise to me . |
| 5 | I 'm but the style was there |
| 6 | However citified and sooty my surroundings , I was but a shilling bus-ride from the crags and heather of the Yorkshire Dales . |
| 7 | I was but an afterthought , and I doubt if they 're bidding high enough for me . ’ |
| 8 | Thank you for secondly I was that the decision now is left to the the District Council er have you not discuss some parts of elements er could be addressed in the short term . |
| 9 | They were as shy as I was and the effort they made to be friendly was the most heartening thing I had experienced since I had been taken prisoner . |
| 10 | I agree you are if/when the defence are pushing out trying to catch you offside , but the Oldham defence were nt , and did nt even know he was there . |
| 11 | In addition to clothes , hair styles are an important indicator of who you are and the cult to which you belong . |
| 12 | ‘ But if you do n't know , how can you be sure when you 're really in love and when you just think you are because the person you 're with is so attractive ? ’ |
| 13 | You 're but a sprout of a Squat . ’ |
| 14 | Think that , for me , you were but a summer 's play , but summer is nearly over … |
| 15 | Sack Kylie — she is but a cipher , a simpering , unthreatening man-pleaser . |
| 16 | She is but a servant maid , and one of the lowest kind : yet look at her face , as the light of recognising love spreads over it . |
| 17 | I wo n't tell you who she is because the name is a household word . |
| 18 | She 's mentioned frequently but he never gives any clue as to who she is or the nature of their relationship . ’ |
| 19 | She needs to hide from reality but she also does n't want Mitch to see how old she is and the truth that she is hiding from : |
| 20 | The books tell you that badgers love peanuts , but what they do n't tell you is that a plastic peanut packet is likely to go off in your pocket with a high-decibel rustle that will send any self-respecting badger right back underground . |
| 21 | What they do n't tell you is that the price of those meals may be artificially inflated . |
| 22 | What I really wrote to tell you is that the Ballet Club Committee says that the Scarlet Woman must be changed — so please do two new designs for me to choose from — and help me ! |
| 23 | All I want to obtain from you is that the information the , that it will not be excluded around about the end , as soon as they take place . |
| 24 | Er what is necessary for me to also convey to you is that the theme that I was given today was one of forgiveness . |
| 25 | And if this second branch failed , there was yet another Mortimer , Edmund 's sister Elizabeth ; and like Philippa , even if she was but a woman , she had given birth to a son , the youngest Henry Percy , Hotspur 's heir . |
| 26 | She got a , I think she got a bit of a shock you know she actually probably thought she was better than she was and a lot of people had been giving her a lot of pats on the back and I tell you where half of that emanated from was down the corridor . |
| 27 | And tt Jan was er was er wondering during last year and went on to hormone replacement therapy because she was and the doctor was a bit concerned about possible osteoporosis which is erm brittle bone |
| 28 | It made her eyes water but she stayed where she was until the saucepan was full , then tried to douse the flames . |
| 29 | I mean Albert said , if we do get that bungalow , we are 'cos the owner , he said she 'll disappear . |
| 30 | and John one in verse twelve it says but as many have received him , to them he gave the right , the authority , the , the power , to become children of God , even to those who believe on his name and this of course is what making our commitment to Christ is , it 's receiving him for ourselves , it 's plugging in , it 's saying yes I have n't got that power myself , I am not able to do it I need you to come and do it for me , I accept that you have that power , you have that authority , you have dealt with my sin and I receive it for me , we trust Christ to save us from sin and commit ourselves to his kingly ruling our lives , we are as the bible says then , born again , new creations , we are made alive in Christ , I give you one verse in Colossians and in chapter three , verse four it says when Christ who is our life is revelled , then you also no sorry verse , verse three , verse three , sorry for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God but you say that 's all very well that , that brings me into the place of becoming a follower of Jesus yes I 've accepted him , but what about all this pressures here , Christ I , I 'm willing to receive them and to make the centre of my life , I 've received that he died for me , but what about all those things that 's twisting and marring and distorting my life , that 's rubbing me , my life can be more , God wants it to be , well that 's the great thing when Jesus comes , he does n't just come and sit down and that 's all there is to it , but he comes in by the holy spirit and as Christ is the centre of our life so he , as we submit to him and to his authority as we become obedient to his word , doing what he tells us , what he says for us , then the power of his spirit in our life starts operating , God the holy spirit , cos that 's how we become Christians , we are born again of God spirit and God Christ was in us , not the man who walked here on Galilee , he is a man in glory , but he comes into your life and into my life by the holy spirit and he gives us new spiritual resources which help us to overcome those influences of evil that are pressing in on us and trying to , to , to , to distort our lives and depress it into its mould , those things that have spoiled our lives , he gives us spiritual power and spiritual resources over them . |