Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thinking of , for example , those summer vacation sessions you used to have with the Berlin players in Saint-Moritz in the 1960s and '70s , I am sure one day people are going to be looking back to all this as some great Golden Age that has now gone for good . |
| 2 | Just as I am sure twenty-seven victories seemed utterly insufficient to Jackie — and had he not retired , he was certainly fit enough and a good enough driver , given the right cars , to which he would have had total access , to notch up another fifteen or twenty — I am sure that his first million seemed a trifle . |
| 3 | Dr David Clark , Labour Agriculture spokesman I am convinced one reason you used a cucumber was for self-preservation . |
| 4 | I 'm due three weeks ' holiday |
| 5 | No , I 'm sorry three times I 've said it , it is not make a face at the end of the chorus , it 's there it , and there is just one way , the chorus says if you want to be happy and have a happy face and spread a little joy around then there is just one way , then you make the face |
| 6 | ‘ And I 'm sure one day you 'll find him . |
| 7 | That is what the greenbelt is actually there for , and if you have it there for that purpose , as I said yesterday , the necessary corollary is that you have additional provision beyond it , and I ca n't resist to offer Mr Wincup some support , I 'm sure one piece of evidence that he gave you about the letter from the Parish Council , he 's probably already replied to that Parish Council saying , as you 're in the York greenbelt have no fear , all the Selby needs will pass straight across your heads and land somewhere else . |
| 8 | But they stopped it I 'm sure twenty years ago . |
| 9 | I 'm busy twelve hours a day , and ca n't be concerned with at as well … ’ |
| 10 | As far as I 'm concerned two things set the assembly in context firstly , the sense of space . |
| 11 | I remember one time er these barges , old barges when you used to come up there , they ai n't got any engine in 'em at all because now they got motors in 'em , but erm , at that time , I was asleep one night and er these barges had been up , they 'd been down the the engine room , cos the engine room and the stoke hall was all in one and th and then I was so sound asleep they 'd filled the sacks up with coal and took them up over the and took the only thing they did do they did n't take the shovel they 'd used , cos they bought their shovel from off the barge and they left that downhill that 's how they 'd pinched the coal . |
| 12 | I was married 10 months ago . |
| 13 | I WAS married four years ago to a girl I loved very much , but I lost her to another man , because I was so incompetent when it came to having sex . |
| 14 | She adds : ‘ I 've worked since I was married 15 years ago and I could n't imagine just sitting around the house all day . |
| 15 | The Cart passes through the old mill town of Paisley , one of the principal reasons for its sorry state , and I was astonished one morning to open my Scotsman and read the headline : ‘ Sea-trout return to the Cart ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ I was ill two years ago and she was always helping out and amusing Philip . |
| 17 | I was sick three times as I was trying to get ready . |
| 18 | about ten past one , well I had indigestion all night and I could feel it , and we 'd had our tea and I thought oh I do n't know , but I went to bed feeling alright and suddenly I woke up I thought oh my god I 'm gon na be sick , I come running down stairs , but you know I was , I was sick but I know I had n't finished and I 'd sat down and I was sick three times . |
| 19 | ‘ I was busy three years ago . |
| 20 | I was restless one evening . |
| 21 | I was widowed four years ago and I know only too well what a terrible thing it is to suddenly find yourself alone . |
| 22 | ‘ I was widowed two years ago — you know that . |
| 23 | " You know how it is with children ; she 's well one day , not so well the next . " |
| 24 | ‘ There 's one lady here — she 's marvellous one moment and yet without any word of warning a care assistant will go to her and she 'll put out her hand and say ‘ I hate you ! ’ . |
| 25 | When she 's married ten years hence , she 'll compare her husband 's performance with yours and he 'll come off worse — every time . |
| 26 | She 's vegetarian three months ago er three years ago . |
| 27 | As an heiress she was a valuable commodity in the Elizabethan marriage market , and she was married three times , to well-connected younger sons approved by the Hastings family . |
| 28 | We firmly believe that we are top eight material and we 'll score against the best teams . |
| 29 | ‘ We were stunned five years ago to find the use of the whip was banned after the last fence or hurdle , or in the final furlong of a flat race , ’ he said . |
| 30 | We were married five months later . ’ |