Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean most of them are only there cos there finding it hard with the mortgage . |
| 2 | I am here partly because I was fortunate enough to have the happiest and healthiest of childhoods and I see it as a very happy obligation to try to do my best to ensure that all over the world it is possible for other children to enjoy something of what I had . |
| 3 | ‘ And you know that I am only here because I have royal authority ? ’ |
| 4 | Not as big as I am down here cos you would n't look right would you ? |
| 5 | We round a headland and I am behind again because of staring downwards and then towards the horizon , willing an orca to break surface . |
| 6 | I 'm just here if you need me . |
| 7 | D' ya no I 'm not just cos I I said it 's a waste of tape . |
| 8 | no I 'm not no when I am I ca n't eat anything , if I was like that I just could n't bear to be even in the same room as anybody who 's eating , so no the urge of chocolate is possibly to do with fat |
| 9 | Because I 'm not here because I want to be , that 's why . |
| 10 | I 'm not more than fifteen minutes ’ walk away . |
| 11 | I travel abroad with him , I help him to organise his business life , and I 'm always there if he needs me . |
| 12 | so I 'm off tomorrow so I 'll tell |
| 13 | I 'm off tomorrow as well . |
| 14 | The beginning was also a time when I was asked if I , too , would soon let them down ‘ like all the others ’ and when being there was expressed for all by Janet : ‘ I 'm only here because my daughter is the way she is . |
| 15 | I 'm only here because my uncle 's chairman of the board . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm only here because of Uncle Vernon , ’ Stella said . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm only here because — well , because there was a little bit of trouble . ’ |
| 18 | I 'm very near as fond of him as Elizabeth herself . |
| 19 | So I 'm still there when Casey appears suddenly from a cut-through up the other end . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm just hoping I 'll be able to get a job while I 'm out there so I can go out again . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm all right as long as I know where things are going , but it 's not on a par with planning a legal argument . ’ |
| 22 | Mm , cos mum had Reverend come round , you see cos dad were n't , none of us were religious least of all dad , he could n't do none of it , so we said to , we did n't , we did n't know what vicar to choose cos none of us go to church so me mum said dad used to go to the church where me sister got married to the little Derby and Jones twice a week and Reverend is always there so mum said we 'll have him , dad got on well with him , he liked him , he knew dad , anyway he come round to see mum and I were n't there cos I had to go and sign on , I bloody wished I had been , anyway she said , she told him all about dad and she said I want you tell everybody how brave he was in the war and what a good father he were and a good provider and how he lived for his grandchildren and so on and so on , she said I do n't want no hymns I just want his own organ music all through the service and nothing else and just some , do a couple of prayers , she , so he said right the Lords Prayer will be fine that 'll be nice , well he never said nothing , he said I did n't know John but he said I 've been told he was a good man , he worked in a hospital , which he did , but I mean you 're only like an engineer we were n't really emphasising on that and that was all he said , he played a bit of the organ music before we went in , a bit as we come out and there was about eight bloody prayers and the songs and everything read out and made us sing a hymn ever so disappointed , hardly said anything , hardly play , played his music , no , I was well disappointed about that |
| 23 | ‘ I was wrong too when I thought you needed my protection . |
| 24 | I was so glad that I was up here when she came off stage . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm sorry I was not here when you arrived . |
| 26 | I was not there when they |
| 27 | Please remember when you are describing something that I was not there when it happened . |
| 28 | I was n't here when it was given out so I did n't know what it was |
| 29 | ‘ I was n't there when he went into the house . |
| 30 | ‘ Oh , no , I was n't there when she delivered , ’ the ex-matron reminded her . |