Example sentences of "[is] [adj] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Think it 's used to you in that I do n't know what , I do n't tell Ron , well he knows how I felt cos I said course I 'm , god he said , is that a performance , he said I have n't sat on your knee for ages , I said no I just feel like it , before we went out and er , I said well I do n't think there 's anything the matter do you , I said with him back there saying make sure Mr Hudson has the notes , and he said no , he said , he said he would n't leave it seven months he said |
| 2 | ‘ My hands and feet a bit , but that 's usual for me in hot weather . ’ |
| 3 | I am familiar with the components of your personality , true , as I am familiar with the liquors in that cabinet over there , but throwing all the different liquors together at random wo n't make a cocktail , not one that 's palatable to me at least . |
| 4 | ‘ … the impracticability of individual copyright holders administering their performing rights effectively means that membership of a performing right society is the only way in which composers , songwriters and music publishers can adequately protect their rights and receive what is due to them for the public use of their work . ’ |
| 5 | The purpose of the provisions relating to copyright is to ensure that both composer and publisher receive the reward which is due to them for their work . |
| 6 | Will he ensure that at that poverty level , those additional 400,000 pensioners are informed of their rights to claim income support so that they can at the very least receive what little is due to them under this Government ? |
| 7 | In a typically British way , we have failed to take the credit that is due to us for that achievement , which had its origins in the Kangaroo group of Members of the European Parliament founded by the late Basil de Ferranti specifically to break down the trade barriers that existed in Europe at a time when none of the other major Community partners wanted to know anything about it . |
| 8 | The Institute is grateful to them for their loyal service which in Ian Shaw 's case totalled nearly twenty five years . |
| 9 | Where standards are qualitative rather than quantitative , it is preferable for them to be expressed in terms of end-results rather than of methods . |
| 10 | I think that 's due to me in payment for having lost my job . |
| 11 | But then I really do n't know it 's right for me to be helping you with such dubious assignations . ’ |
| 12 | That 's right on her on the copy of that . |
| 13 | After two months of Anna and Vronsky meeting he says : ‘ Friends we shall not be , you know that yourself ; but whether we shall be the happiest or the most miserable of human beings … rests with you ’ ‘ Only one happiness is possible for me in life , … love … ’ he declared . |
| 14 | We must show that it is possible for it to be both a resultant … and a totalizing force … how it can continually bring about the unity of dispersive profusion and integration . |
| 15 | Women in the community need to find out what is possible for us as a prerequisite to identifying what is not available and what we would like to see . |
| 16 | It is because of those reforms that it is right for us to be sceptical about some of the claims that the right hon. Gentleman has made today . |
| 17 | ‘ There 's fifty in it for you . |
| 18 | ‘ Foreigners have no God , ’ she claimed , as if she wanted to weaken my resolve and then , correcting herself and asking God 's pardon , she changed this to ‘ Our God , the God of Islam , is different from theirs in the West . ’ |
| 19 | It is foolish of me to be concerned . |
| 20 | No one comes up to me to ask what I want , so I reckon it 's OK for me to be there . |
| 21 | So many of Hardy 's girls are people who 've had a little bit of education , and who are somehow or other caught between traditional ways and modern ways , and I think one has the feeling that Hardy is more interested in the sociologically transitional status of the people he 's writing about than he is interested in them as people . |
| 22 | It is clear to me from Mr evidence that er he regards school as entirely appropriate for the plaintiff . |
| 23 | But of course , you are n't out to trap me into matrimony , so it is easier for you to be frank . |
| 24 | He said but unfortunately because he 's boisterous , which he is and because it 's easier for them with their numbers to let him just get away with it or say oh Martin go outside we ca n't , you know , then then he was n't learning |
| 25 | ‘ In every way it is wrong for you to be here ! ’ |
| 26 | For that reason , it is worth thinking about what is interesting about you from a journalist 's point of view before trying to woo him or her with your beautiful noise . |
| 27 | The desire to ensure that the adult child retains an appropriate degree of independence can be particularly tricky in these circumstances , especially if she or he returns to live in the parents ' home and is dependent upon them for accommodation , child care , emotional support and possibly for money as well . |
| 28 | The horse 's sense of smell is acute , and it is dependent upon it for adequate communication with other horses . |
| 29 | only the contractors do and even they only know when they go on site so , but we , we sort of say you do this , you do that and then we contract to who can do it , there 's some of them by er |
| 30 | ‘ You said they were n't acknowledged ; what 's wrong with them from the Edwin Garlands ’ point of view ? ’ |