Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [verb] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I decided to eat with them as Head of Primary Department is giving me this afternoon off and therefore I do n't need a break from the kids . |
| 2 | Our light is to tell him that food is ready for him . |
| 3 | And Sutapa Biswas ' The Pied Piper of Hamlyn , Put Your Money Where Your Mouth is reminds us that tourism and the tourist gaze perpetuate unhealthy values . |
| 4 | It can not be simply the distortions of hindsight that cast Alison Kraemer in the role of spoiler , for the effect was to throw us all into a foul temper , heightening the existing tensions until they exploded a few days later with devastating results . |
| 5 | Paulie 's making it all up . |
| 6 | You know what the girl was telling me this morning ? |
| 7 | Then , before she could protest again , he turned to her and added , his eyes like steel traps in the dark lines of his face , ‘ And what at the moment is causing me some concern is one very simple but crucial question — are you bolshie , unreliable and irresponsible , too ? ’ |
| 8 | Our job is to record it all for history . ’ |
| 9 | For most of course whether they 're here for fun or fame the aim is to make it all the way … |
| 10 | But the long term aim is to make it all dual carriageway … hopes are high the government will announce this in a couple of years . |
| 11 | The leader is to love them all equally and in the same way . |
| 12 | My job was to clear it all up so Dolph would n't mess up his trainers . ’ |
| 13 | Before we left for Bosnia I told my platoon that my ultimate aim was to bring them all home alive . |
| 14 | You know sometimes the way forward is backward , there are no short cuts with god , if he 's leading along a certain path and were disobedient , there 's no way we can opt out of it and join the trail further along , he does n't allow it , its back to where we left it , that 's were we 've got ta get back to , we ca n't skip an experience , we ca n't miss any thing out , we 've got to go back to where we start , where we were when we left the trail and Naomi has to do just that to go back to Bethlehem , that 's the way forward for her , and you see because we all , we always find this if we are really children of god , then we can never ever be satisfied away from the will of god , there 's nothing else that meets our need , its god will or nothing , you know , when we know frustration in our lives , when we know sort of the , these annoyances and , and , and , and er sense of frustration there , its not because god is leaving us that way its invariably cos we have actually gone out of gods will because he 's will is not frustrated , its satisfying , can I just , it will only really be headings this morning , just leave us with three brief headings in this little incident that we 'll read or we , we wo n't read the whole passage but its , er in the remainder of the , or more or less the whole of the remainder of the first chapter tha that the cost was involved and then the choices that were made and then the commitment , the cost that was involved Naomi had to pay something , you see before she could return to Naomi she had to con , before Naomi sorry could return er to , to Bethlehem , she had to acknowledge she 'd done wrong , she had failed , she had sinned , she had to acknowledge she had made a mistake now in fairness to Naomi she did it and she excepted her responsibility , she did n't try and shift the blame on |
| 15 | He stuffed the bundle of papers into his pocket and pulled a face , as if the toothpick was causing him some sort of pain . |
| 16 | The King was paying him some money every year , and Ben wanted to give a party for his friends . |
| 17 | But Freeman 's done it all in friendship , so what would I say ? |
| 18 | No one like himself , a partial cripple , with a badly scarred body — his limp was paining him this week — and with a ruined face into the bargain could hope to aspire to such a Bird of Paradise ; he could only imagine what she looked like in the clothes she normally wore . |
| 19 | The sun was shining over the Gower Peninsula and the train was sending me all how-green-was-my-valley . |
| 20 | If the woman was to give her any information , it must be now . |
| 21 | " Are we to gather that Dreadnought is asking us all to do something dishonest ? " |
| 22 | The best thing to do with lead piping is to rip it all out and replace it with copper or plastic . |
| 23 | At the end of two days you say well fine but it 's not for me I ca n't do anything about that when you walk out the room but I hope my objective is to convince you that here is something that like lots of other people in time I can it 's a very very useful system . |
| 24 | Our ma 's getting her that . |
| 25 | The public reaction to the reawakening of feminism was to dismiss us all as bra-burning lesbians . |
| 26 | In the end , the way the world is affects us all . |
| 27 | If all the numbers are negative , the simplest thing is to multiply them all by – 1 . |
| 28 | The best thing is to cut it all off and just put it means we 've got ta get a bit more soil and a bit covered , to pull it off . |
| 29 | ‘ If you look the way the snow falls , ’ he said hesitantly , ‘ you can see the air conditioning is blowing it this way , ’ he pointed , ‘ so it piles up more on this side of things than that side . |
| 30 | — ‘ Only now your Crocus List is trying it all on its ownsome . ’ |