Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [adv] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I listen to my radio I am only marking time . |
| 2 | While I owe much to that tradition and trust that I am still persona grata within it , in many respects I have gone beyond Evangelical thought on matters to do with the Church and sacraments . |
| 3 | But now I 'm just deciding I 'll live off invalidity benefit for a wee while longer , leaving that in the hands of my my managing director and somebody else and the money that 's coming through from the Queen and whatever I 'm just gon na live on invalidity benefit , I 'm only drawing invalidity benefit , I 'm not gon na get any more money than invalidity benefit . |
| 4 | I was subsequently Chief Constable of the combined Sheffield and Rotherham Police Force which whilst a joint committee , still regarded so very much as serving the two separate authorities and finally I was Chief in a Metropolitan country , with a county council and a police committee and I 'm quite sure that the police were much more sensitive to the needs and the wishes of their local communities when you were sitting at one of those , not necessarily police committee meetings , but the county council meetings , when they discussed the minutes of the police authority . |
| 5 | I was there Saturday night er , and Saturday evening and erm what 's her name ? |
| 6 | . However , after about eighteen month at , as a yard foreman , as I say I was still branch secretary of Portobello branch , and carrying on as usual , er I put in for There were this yard inspectors job wanted at Street Station . |
| 7 | No I was only garrison artillery on guns . |
| 8 | I was er Chairman of Public Health and various chim , I was Chairman of the Road Safety , which I was very interested in I was very road safety conscious and we each were given a job which we tried to do the best we could with and then we well , whatever we were asked to do we began to make a good town , you know ? |
| 9 | That , that , that he is given a note as part of the quality plan saying , here you are son , you are now project engineer . |
| 10 | Do n't forget you 're only putting , you 're only part time , you 're pushing to do your work hard |
| 11 | you 're now participant number O one six four two . |
| 12 | You were even lip reading . |
| 13 | Well , you know , I think it was a kind of sports bag or something and I thought oh I 'll go along with that and the other , I mean I had heard of them before and I made a few enquiries and they said , you know , you you were quite quality company so I thought |
| 14 | She is roughly Cocker Spaniel weight , but taller . |
| 15 | Due to cutbacks in Adult Education last year , Margaret was made redundant from her part-time post as lecturer for Special Needs in Wandsworth Adult College ; she is now Curriculum Manager for Basic Education , Special Needs , Physical Education and Complementary Health with Surrey Adult and Continuing Education Service and enjoys this work very much . |
| 16 | Her first job in the area at Ayresome Junior School , Middlesbrough , gave her first hand experience of the problems faced by teachers in the region and she is now county education committee spokesman . |
| 17 | Wade will , of course , always be remembered for one special summer 's afternoon at the All England Club , but she was also world number two in 1975 and won the first-ever U.S. Open in 1968 . |
| 18 | Lorna Lewis might not have made a picture since a flopperoo called It Happened in Monte Carlo three years ago , but she was still Hollywood royalty . |
| 19 | ‘ We are currently spending money on finding the basic properties of advanced mixed oxide nuclear fuels and how the fuel oxidises during the manufacturing process . |
| 20 | ‘ We 're nearly outa gas . |
| 21 | Yeah but but the point I 'm trying to make is that it seems to me that if we 're continually spending money on advertising , we 're creating another problem elsewhere . |
| 22 | I worked in quite a few departments in the Co-op erm and I was secretary to the education er in those days , whereas Miss member relations er in the , when I was there we were just education department with an educational secretary and erm then , he , we did all the staff training as well . |
| 23 | They are essentially depletion mode devices , which might suggest that they conduct electricity when no bias is applied , and conduct less under bias . |
| 24 | Dr Dowling believes that part of the reason why house officers are often so impotent in hospital politics is that they are essentially migrant labour — rarely in one place for more than six months . |
| 25 | They 're basically 55mm diameter Street Bones . |
| 26 | But yer average Carter , The Wedding Present — they have n't made enough money to say f— off , they 're still Joe Blow … ’ |
| 27 | So when they 're actually blood grouping they 're using human blood serum to er test which group you belong to . |
| 28 | They thought they were probably road maintenance men from the Cajamarca region . ’ |
| 29 | They were originally Wiltshire country people , the grandmother and mother being both illiterate , and the grandfather a blacksmith . |
| 30 | Well now I , Bull 's Eye Lamps , that we carried at night , they were merely paraffin oil lamps . |