Example sentences of "be [adj] [noun] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had been old German hulks you know ta brought over to this country after the First World War as part of the reparations and they had been finished off in Liverpool and Glasgow somewhere . |
| 2 | And there are some phone calls I have to make tonight — ’ |
| 3 | There are some phone calls I have to make , then Drew has some papers for me to see , ’ he allowed , rising . |
| 4 | I will add a cautionary comment however , and say that you wo n't necessarily be able to change absolutely everything , at any time of the day or night , because there are some base requirements we have to address and we have to meet . |
| 5 | There are some site precautions you have to take by law . |
| 6 | There are some Festival events you ca n't have too much of ! |
| 7 | Even where there are national forest-management policies they are often difficult to enforce , especially where other interests , notably the potential of forest products to earn foreign currency , are involved . |
| 8 | Y you 'll see amongst the plans that you 've , you 've got before you , plan number seven actually , should n't really be with these papers because it 's not a proposal for approval , but it does show the extent of the work that 's been done and the key element there is that there are these speed cushions I mentioned earlier on as a possible way forward there , which has been in consultation . |
| 9 | It pays to do the first work well , of course , for if there are frequent digging-out excavations you , in effect , sever the burrow systems and then fill them in . |
| 10 | I 'm sorry page Mr you said it |
| 11 | I 'm sorry Mr chairman I w |
| 12 | Even in these countries , however , although employers ' organisations may not be direct bargaining institutions they can still play an important role in industrial relations by helping to achieve a degree of cohesion among employers through their coordinating and advisory functions . |
| 13 | He said all the independent surveys agreed there would be some job losses it was simply a question of how many . |
| 14 | Finally , there are various reference books you may wish to keep handy and dip into : Roget 's Thesaurus , Brewer 's Dictionary Phrase and Fable , The Oxford Book of English Usage , A Dictionary of Clichés , The Penguin Dictionary of Quotations , The Penguin Dictionary of Historical Slang and of course a good dictionary which includes derivations and pronunciation of words . |
| 15 | Being large town houses they were three storeys high with large basements . |
| 16 | Later when there were large sailing ships they used the deep water channel as far as Kingston-upon-Hull but they docked in the River Hull to unload their cargoes and the goods were carried inland by barges on the rivers to Selby , York , Beverley and Gainsborough . |
| 17 | They were all country girls you know . |
| 18 | The pearls were fat rice grains you wanted to bite . |
| 19 | Leading lenders were last night warning they may not be able to pass on any further rate reductions to mortgage holders . |
| 20 | Yeah , yeah , but remember that these , these are expensive race horses you see , this is er |
| 21 | This is that market research I 'm doing . |
| 22 | It 's that Ripper bloke they 're all going on about . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's that kangaroo juice he puts in the engine , ’ Terry teased her after she had started from outside the house in a series of jumps . |
| 24 | If it 's high speed sport you want … then the final of the Perestroika 93 Volleyball tournament at Upper Heyford in Oxfordshire tonight should not be missed … teams from Latvia … |
| 25 | Yes but to me it 's old stuff Brenda I mean I 've been hearing this kind of conversation in number between chaps coming in to mend things |
| 26 | But that 's another thing sport you get a lot of sport on here |
| 27 | That 's another Christmas dinner I 'm having so that 'll be two . |
| 28 | What is this love/hate relationship you have with Englishness ? |
| 29 | fucking laugh , so I said to her no I said it is this week Julie I said and it 's towards the end of the week but I 'll ring you by the weekend and let you know , well of course come the Thursday morning I have n't seen Val , and I was ever so upset because it really the end of the line money wise , I could n't do any more |
| 30 | I 'm not sure because erm Martin has a number of things that come out of his er salary , there 's erm his pension of course and erm there , there 's some insurance scheme they run at work as well . |