Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] be [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reading for our , I mean er , I supply my own car , my church has recognised that whether I 'm probably if I pay the tax and the insurance erm and I just thirty two , thirty five that 's but when I 'm in business or I 'm in provinces and I 'm allowed to pay what , ten fifteen |
| 2 | And I ca n't decide whether it 's , you 're A types and you go into construction , or you 're in construction and it makes you into A types . |
| 3 | Erm , especially when you 're in front of a screen er or you 're in front of a , a form that you 're , someone 's saying get the traffic profile out and th what they send , what they , how many they send , it can sound like an interrogational . |
| 4 | and I ca n't see the two people involved being able to stomach that very easily because questions like why did you not ask for counselling at the time or you were in charge and why did you not ensure he had any adequate |
| 5 | If you complete this section of the Application Form we can pay the life assurance benefit , subject to a maximum of £5,000 , to your nominated beneficiary provided he or she is over age 18 , immediately we receive official evidence of your death . |
| 6 | Further , a family member may find it difficult to " let go " of the primary sufferer while he or she is in treatment and may still want to find out everything that goes on in a treatment centre on a day-to-day basis and there by continue to " fix " by proxy . |
| 7 | They do not want to disturb their child by commenting on how good he or she is in case the child starts to demand attention again . |
| 8 | On the other hand , if the right to refuse to transfer does not entail the right to remain for the transferor , perhaps the employee 's right to refuse on the sale of a business is nearly illusory , and he or she is in reality in no better position than the worker who sees the employing company bought over his or her head . |
| 9 | The effect of s. 5 , therefore , is to render unenforceable business contracts entered into by the proprietor , where he or she is in breach of the requirements of s. 5 and this breach has caused some ‘ loss ’ to the other party . |
| 10 | We only call dolphins when we need help in a rough sea , or we are in difficulty or if there is something we would like to know about relatives at a distance over the ocean . |
| 11 | Or we 're in love with them , ha ha . |
| 12 | Or they 're on sale for a hundred pounds each . |
| 13 | or they 're in bands |
| 14 | one should not confuse … two things : the fragmentation of social labour , which arises from the fact of the social division of labour on the one hand , and the fragmentation of social labour , which negates this very division of labour on the other hand … ‘ enterprises ’ … stand in various relationships to each other : either they are bound to each other by buying and selling ( heterogeneous enterprises ) , or they are in competition with each other ( homogeneous enterprises ) . |
| 15 | The independent schemes , like ourselves , need help or they are in danger of being squeezed out . |
| 16 | Was there any feeling when these letters were received that they were to be taken seriously or they were in fact a bluff ? |
| 17 | Or it 's to hell in a handcart . ’ |
| 18 | Positivist theories under this latter heading have taken two quite different forms : the acquisition is through the occurrence of some physical damage ( or illness ) ; or it is through learning . |
| 19 | Predicating a theme involves using an it-structure ( also called a cleft structure ) to place an element near the beginning of the clause , as in It was the book that received a great deal of publicity in China , it was a great deal of publicity that the book received in China , or It was in China that the book received a great deal of publicity . |
| 20 | Get Lee over here or he 's in bum shit . |
| 21 | I feel at ease within myself and I am at peace . |
| 22 | ‘ My name is Joseph Bodenland , Lord Byron , and I am from Texas , in America , the Lone Star State . |
| 23 | I own my own home , and I am in work , so repayment would be no problem . |
| 24 | And I am in haste to get this word to you , that you may know your affair is not in abeyance , and that the undeclared truce which has held good , but for some small brushes , since the council met in November may continue unbroken . |
| 25 | ‘ I have not eaten and I am in rags and all I ask is a share of your fire before I am turned out into the cold night again … |
| 26 | Here S. O. Letterman and I are at odds . |
| 27 | Not while the Captain and I are at war . |
| 28 | For a start , and leaving aside the merits and demerits of PR — on which the NSS and I are at variance — one obvious fact ought to be hammered home . |
| 29 | ‘ My wife and I are from Prague , ’ he said . |
| 30 | You and I are by nature , by our respective natures , males who are irresistibly attracted by a non-male principle . |