Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [be] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Encouraging them were the new links between British and American film companies that grew out of the quota legislation . |
| 2 | As it happens , I do n't think I 'm the right person to lead humanity into the future , no . |
| 3 | I do n't think I 'm the only volunteer who 's ashamed of their early attitude to AIDS and I 'm only glad that we had the sense , collectively , to listen to reason before the calls began . |
| 4 | To hear her talk you 'd think I was the hired help . |
| 5 | I do n't know if it was because it never happened , or because they did n't think I was the right person to talk to . ’ |
| 6 | But it was of no avail , and as the time passed I was the unwilling witness of the gradual transition from heartiness to silence , then to something like panic . |
| 7 | The most powerful ‘ lessons in wizardry ’ are those taken for the learning of shamanic powers , and in the Piaroa theory of knowledge , men who do undergo them are the best hunters in Piaroaland , even if they rarely hunt ( Overing 1988 ) . |
| 8 | Another part of the proposals which worries me is the Scottish Office taking responsibility for more of the main roads . |
| 9 | When you awaken in the morning hush I am the uplifting rush Of quiet birds encircled flight I am the soft stars that shine at night . |
| 10 | When I arrived I found I was the only newspaperman so involved , and Mains had his men out on the main field . |
| 11 | I found I was the only woman in the upstairs room of the Albert in Kings Cross , listening to a man in a leather jacket giving an introductory talk which seemed to assume that we were all men . |
| 12 | ‘ They say she 's the youngest prima ballerina ever to dance at the Coliseum . ’ |
| 13 | They all say you are the best houngan in Haiti . |
| 14 | Erm , we also , again I mean , as you say , we always look at ourselves and say we 're the best team in the company . |
| 15 | How do we know they 're the proper people to have sight of these — documents ? |
| 16 | ‘ I expect they 're the same ones he used to tell me . ’ |
| 17 | You wo n't know it 's the real thing unless you ( and she ) still feel the same in , oh , a year or so at least ; that 's the only way to prove you are n't living a dragonfly mistake . |
| 18 | ‘ Did you know it 's the biggest bank in the United States ? ’ |
| 19 | A lot of things that I 'd still do here if , if I could whip up some enthusiasm if my husband would , I ca n't , he was a bricklayer , sub contractor and they have knocked this kitchen out about three times since they 've been there , and the last , this last effort , I think they 've put imitation beams in , I have n't seen it , but we think they have and er , oh it 's , you would n't know it 's the same house at all , you would n't know it |
| 20 | There was something at St Michael 's but I did n't know it was the one world week . |
| 21 | I do n't know he 's the same s in South Ronaldsay or not would he be different s ? |
| 22 | ‘ There was something about him that made me know he was the best revue star we had . ’ |
| 23 | The only sign that anyone had ever occupied it was the flattened grass beneath the tree , where her blanket had been . |
| 24 | Clearly visible as an up-lighter caught it was the strong profile of Martin Ward , with the Dyson family a few steps behind . |
| 25 | ‘ Anyone who uses the East-Coast mainline will recognise it is the biggest investment since the steam age . ’ |
| 26 | Its admirers say it is the consummate manager . |
| 27 | Every year in October we say it is the finest thing in the garden . |
| 28 | Marry , so there have been diverse good plots devised and wise counsels cast already about reformation of that realm , but they say it is the fatal destiny of that land that no purposes whatsoever are meant for her good will prosper or take good effect , which whether it proceed from the very genius of the soil , or the influence of the stars , or that Almighty God hath not yet appointed the time of her reformation , or that He reserveth her in this unquiet state still , for some secret scourge which shall by her come unto England , it is hard to be known but yet much to be feared . |
| 29 | ‘ Where they have dug the hole is a main junction , they say it is the worst place for the leak , where the water is separated . |
| 30 | They say it 's the final straw in a two month saga of staff sickness and lack of supply teachers which has meant vital gaps in their children 's schooling . |