Example sentences of "be [verb] [pron] [noun sg] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keith Hanger returned to the prison where he 'd been serving his sentence last night . |
| 2 | So there I am popping my tray next to his in the unit , when he says , right out of the blue , completely unprovoked , I have n't said anything — |
| 3 | But if I 'm if kids are giving me work first thing in the morning and I 've got them in the afternoon they 're gon na expect it to be marked ! |
| 4 | Meanwhile , a band from Washington DC 's famous Dischord stable are coming our way next week . |
| 5 | I 'm eating my chicken first . |
| 6 | I know pregnancy creates an added risk of retinopathy , and I 'm seeing my ophthalmologist next week , but that 's not enough . |
| 7 | We 'll be announcing our winner next week as a curtain-raiser to Age Concern Week . |
| 8 | The working party will be publishing its report next April . |
| 9 | but they can come and go , I mean the year four they lost two teachers in the last two weeks cos their husbands got other jobs and the contracts were just terminated and , so it 's quite a , a moveable circle of people , er , but just , they have actually sacked one of the lads that came out with us , they wo n't be renewing his contract next year , he only had a two year contract |
| 10 | The reply could be : ‘ Yes , when my husband is n't using the car ’ or ‘ Yes , I go into the village on Mondays ’ or ‘ No , but I 'm taking my test next week ’ or ‘ No . |
| 11 | Anyway he 's just rotting his bowel , he 'll be rotting his liver next ! |
| 12 | Word has it that an unlikely combination of forces have come together in a bid to establish a new standard for installing Unix software from graphical user interfaces and will be showing their stuff next month 's Uniforum show in San Francisco . |
| 13 | Unisys Corp is porting its Mapper fourth generation language tool , which supports a range of databases , to IBM RS/6000 , Sun Sparc and SCO Unix-based platforms : Unisys claims 5,000 users of Mapper worldwide on its mainframe and Unix platforms . |
| 14 | A straw St Bridget 's Cross hung over the door of the dark little room in which I was eating my breakfast next morning . |
| 15 | And all he kept doing was twisting my arm last night , and my leg bummer ! |
| 16 | A BOY of 12 who begged a judge to set him free of his mother was granted his wish last night . |
| 17 | I decided that the best course of action was to do my turning first , followed by the seat , then the shaped components and finally jointing and assembly . |