Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [be] [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 People all the time wish to pigeon-hole you … to say that I am totally a chat-show host or I am entirely a serious headmistress figure .
2 With a final piece of advice that I should climb the hill opposite La Valdieu the next day , I look my leave of the little group , wondering whether they or I were perhaps a little insane .
3 ‘ Yes , Ellie , you do know , ’ he said quietly , in direct contrast to her stormy denial , ‘ and I can either believe that the letters were used merely as a passport for something else , or you are indeed a calculating little bitch intent only on causing pain . ’
4 Like the characters and indeed the reader he or she is simply a collection of codes : ‘ The ‘ I ’ which approaches the text is already itself a plurality of other texts , of codes which are infinite , or more precisely , lost ( whose origin is lost ) ’ ( p. 10 ) .
5 He or she is usually a well-known public figure , who need not have any connection with the academic world ( such as a member of the Royal Family ) .
6 Anyone who supposes this case to be exceptional should try to reconcile the community of which he or she is genuinely a member with the constituency in which he or she now votes , and then remember that an STV constituency would be three , four , five or more times larger .
7 not know it immediately but if I say , Well what 's X plus seven times Y minus five or it 's only the same it 's exactly the same rules
8 Does the successful transaction rely on a strong element of facility or product , or it is purely the human interaction giving service ?
9 Now that would do , that would do whether the , whether the knuckles were hurt or it was just a minor cut in the palm of the hand there , that would do and you can use the same type of bandage on the foot alright , so that 's if the hand was damaged , now supposing we did n't have the hand damaged , but we had instead a cut up here , okay , again clean it and if you clean it with lots of water always remember to dry off around the wound because bugs love a moist skin to grow in , dry the wound before you apply the dressing okay if you can , dry it off the best you can and then you 're going to place that over the cut , remember you want the pad to be long enough , big enough , okay , now she can hold this for you again , she can hold it above where the wound is and now when you bandage this one you always bandage from the narrow part to the fat part of the limb , you always bandage from the narrow to the fat , so you take the bandage down
10 Or it was just the wiring .
11 My approach and preparation are slower and I am also a different person mentally .
12 ‘ He knows of your feelings towards me , and I am only a passing stranger .
13 Years ago , though , I put down my gun and I am now a conservationist .
14 She died in 1952 and I am now the only one of the family left alive .
15 Chairman I have to but I moved conservative resolution and I am now the debate problem .
16 My Mum and I are now the very best of friends , not really like mother and son .
17 Dally goes as far as to state that it indicates a bad prognosis for the disease , but I am glad to be able to report that although my jealousy continued into my adolescence , including the anorexic period , it did not deter my recovery , and that my sisters and I are now the best of friends .
18 I 've thought about it but we are so different , with you being a thief and I 'm just an ordinary woman . ’
19 I hear , I , I , I think there is a tendency with the County Council but as I discovered as Chairman of Highways that members want to take a greater interest and to have a greater say on the items on the agenda now planning is is not a controversial as , as say highway items , but nevertheless I think there will be times and there will be agendas which will require a great deal of discussion on the individual items and I 'm also a great believer bearing in mind comments if it ai n't broke , do n't bend it .
20 Right can I just ask a wee quick question which is highly personal liability for eight thousand pounds of tax and I 'm also a guarantor for my son 's mortgage
21 I do it , and I 'm only a girl .
22 You 've just got me , and I 'm only a third-year student nurse . ’
23 But there was a foreman in the shop , but these did their own job er and er in the about three or four weeks , and I 'm only a kid , erm they had me doing separate jobs you know , not for a gaffer or anything and er they used to , they give me odd jobs as , you know like , to help the men and er it went of like that in till I was eighteen or nineteen , well twenty , that time you were , day , become a man .
24 My head still hurts real bad , and I 'm still a bit confused , but I pretend I understand .
25 Leeds are still reeling from last week 's four-goal home mauling by Nottingham Forest and club captain Gordon Strachan said : ‘ I 've watched it on video and I 'm still a bit confused about what happened .
26 But I 'm still the champion , and I 'm still a better fighter than he is .
27 Now I 'm seventy-seven and I 'm hardly a day older . ’
28 I may venture to add Jerry and I were probably the first Scottish kids to hear this coming over the air .
29 she and I were always the last two
30 ‘ Off the field he was an established star and I was just a youngster .
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