Example sentences of "be [adv] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We are effectively their warehouse in this country .
2 That is how it has been in the past , we have never been friends , and perhaps it has been altogether my fault .
3 Why is she the Crown Princess , while I am only her Captain ? ’
4 In the really healthy human being the distinction between the two is instant , our profoundest instincts are perhaps our instincts of opposition between the two flows .
5 Silvester Horne , in his popular survey of nineteenth-century Nonconformity , admitted , ‘ The easiest accusation to sustain against Nonconformity has been hitherto its tendency to disintegration and division ’ .
6 I am merely your psychiatrist , señorita . ’
7 Do n't tell us your secrets Graham we do n't deserve to know them , oh go on then so these are only your R S I dates are n't they ?
8 It would have been just her luck if the damned thing had broken down en route , leaving her at the mercy of his unexpected return .
9 The news of Charles 's birth must have been exactly what Lothar had feared since his father 's remarriage .
10 Dearest , I know that when I am away my darling goes out with others .
11 Intellectually he had accepted that the marriage had been a mistake , that it had been largely his mistake .
12 In effect it is merely to restate the fact that the intuitions that sustain the case for individualism in explanation are largely our intuitions .
13 I suggest that general practitioners ' decisions are generally what Spiegelhalter and colleagues call stage 1 decisions — that is , unaided intuitive judgments .
14 ‘ When I 've been away my wife has posted it to me .
15 Thus it might erroneously be said of the dog 's leaping to catch the ball that what I really see are just its movements , upon the basis of which I make a leap of faith to its inner , privately introspective , enjoyment .
16 For that , the resources are just my wits and the help of people already in business . ’
17 ‘ And I 'm quite sure that you are exactly my style ! ’ he added smoothly , removing the champagne glass from her trembling hand and setting it down on a nearby table .
18 ‘ And you 're only my half sister .
19 I said well they 're just what people had before the sticky labels .
20 You 're just his secretary , and that 's all you 're ever going to be .
21 Toby and I are the same , two people we were yesterday — we 're still your friends " " Not the same .
22 ‘ You 're still my May ! ’
23 You 're growing up , yes , but you 're not grown-up and you wo n't be for some time , and in the meantime you 're still my girl .
24 You 're still my sister , after all !
25 To me , they 're still my brothers and sisters .
26 ‘ But you 're still his son , Joe , wherever he 's living now . ’
27 There 's a gap between you because you 're always your parents ' child .
28 We 're nearly there girls , we 're nearly there .
29 ‘ Trying to ensure that I remember you 're now my husband ? ’ she enquired sweetly .
30 They 're here my girl .
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