Example sentences of "be [pron] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah but the Open University ones cover all of the material and they 're what I actually wrote the lectures from erm but there 's six of them which is why the o the only advantage of the other one is that it 's one not six and so but I mean the material is all covered text of which there are three copies of most of them in the library one on short loan and one on sort of a general loan so you |
| 2 | May I come in ? wait are you it up . |
| 3 | ‘ Tunney , ’ she said , sitting down beside me , ‘ are you you yet ? ’ |
| 4 | There truly seemed to be nothing she really desired . |
| 5 | At least if you buy an old guitar there 's bound to be something you just hate about it or something that just jumps out at you and says , ‘ You ca n't do this ! ’ |
| 6 | What you want is to be able to answer a few sensible questions uniquely identifying you , the trouble is there 's probably a repertoire of only ten of those questions , you 're going to get asked three or four of them , but those questions , your date of birth , your telephone number , the er address of your bank and so on and so forth , if you 're a private detective you can get those , you can have them on a sheet of paper and you can pretend to be whoever you like . |
| 7 | so , when she moves that 'll be it we just wo n't see her any more . |
| 8 | Yes it can be whatever you like . |
| 9 | People are always complaining that they do not have enough work space/dumping space , but it may well be what they really need is better organized storage . |
| 10 | The user may find a book on a subject but it may not be what he really requires or may only partially satisfy his needs . |
| 11 | Only about a third of them has to be what you really call meat . |
| 12 | It is not , I do n't think it is worthwhile discussing anything if you think that what you are going to discuss may not be what you then do . |
| 13 | I 'm what they laughingly call mobile , but carrying a suitcase , as well as all my camera junk , is a little beyond me as yet . ’ |
| 14 | The huge sell-out reformation shows earlier this year were something they never achieved in their chart heyday . |
| 15 | Oh were they I rather like those |
| 16 | similarly , workers view their real money wage as being what they actually collect , i.e. , their net wages . |
| 17 | Like Bakhtin , Lecercle manages these moves without sinking into the quagmire of Marxism ; language may be a structure " erected on the unstable basis of contradiction and strife " ( p. 187 ) , but it is not a game in which there will ever be winners or losers — it will just go on being what it uncontrollably is , for it speaks us as much as we it . |
| 18 | The first cats of this type were what we today call striped or mackerel tabby , covered with thin , dark lines . |
| 19 | Words made things whole for him , words were what he always aspired to . |
| 20 | I was thought of as rather gallant and dashing , and I played on this for a long time , emphasizing the cruelty and hardship aspects of the camp , and skating over the boredom and hunger , which were what I chiefly remembered . |
| 21 | I 've discovered over the years that if my hair is all right , then generally speaking , so am I. I also notice as the years lurch by , and I would n't dream of telling anyone but you , that my mother was right . |
| 22 | Such objects are what we now call black holes , because that is what they are : black voids in space . |
| 23 | ‘ We want to encourage parents to talk to youngsters and see if the new kits are what they really want . |
| 24 | The " sett " referred to as being held by Wilson might have been what we now know as the Tilberthwaite Mine ; which had been an attractive prospect from the days of the Elizabethan miners and continued to be investigated on and off right up to the 1930's . |
| 25 | I asked my granny why and she said that there had been what we now call a newsflash on the wireless saying the King had died . |
| 26 | But she feels there 's nothing you actually can do to help me with ! |
| 27 | I used to always load anti sys but I , then I found out there 's nothing I ever I really needed it , so I took it out ! |
| 28 | There are unpaid actors too ( I thought ) : it 's them you really have to watch . |
| 29 | The difference this time is that it is someone they personally loved and therefore it takes on an importance quite different from any event they may have witnessed before . |
| 30 | ‘ A friend is someone you just enjoy seeing , someone you never get bored with . |