Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] be a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we 're happy we once again say on the phone , Well what I want tomorrow is a deposit cheque , contract , bankers order and if you 've got copy available I 'll take that a juggle it around as you want . |
| 2 | What I want today is a ban on tree felling in old growth and primary forest north and south . |
| 3 | What I want now is a head of department in a really good school , and then I 'd do what our head of department has done . |
| 4 | Well , I 'd always been a bit too busy — and clever ! |
| 5 | Well then while I was serving as a detective , you can just imagine I made plenty of arrests , and I got along reasonably well with most people , but there was one man I hated yes I hated him , I , I 'd only been a detective I should think for a period of about , oh five or six months , and a man , he called on the Reverend who was the , the vicar of St. Mary where |
| 6 | What I like best is a job is a job . |
| 7 | In the same issue of the ‘ Guardian ’ I cited above was a news report headed : Jail for PC who stamped on man . |
| 8 | I gave up being a bird watcher and succumbed to the delicious trippery feel of sun on my back and sand on my front . |
| 9 | Well , for me , everything I do here is a continuation of the same old fight from the past . |
| 10 | The network er what the miner 's strike created I think anyway was a sort of network of people Th and it was n't just through the usual trade union political party network it was or through the support groups really er it sets up a network of like |
| 11 | erm one of the best programmes that I participated in was a programme where yes , money was spent to get matter for bucks as it 's called . |
| 12 | Perhaps if I had n't been a fool I would have been the dead girl in the road . ’ |
| 13 | I had already been a prisoner nearly a year and had not yet escaped . |
| 14 | I had never been a member of the Labour Party , and on the first occasion when I could claim a vote I voted for the Liberal candidate in the Hampstead constituency . |
| 15 | ‘ Before all this I had never been a fisherman but I have now taken it up and am enjoying it , ’ he said . |
| 16 | I had long been a believer in voluntary euthanasia , and my mother 's experience strengthened it ; for to me what matters most is not the length of a person 's life but its quality , and that death , when it comes , should have dignity . |
| 17 | I had then been a night junior . |
| 18 | I 've actually been a bride twice actually ! |
| 19 | At the orphanage I was complimented on me English composition , but I 've always been a bit shy about speakin' up for meself . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Oh , I 've always been a bit of a subversive . |
| 21 | I 've always been a bit of a bad girl : I 've disobeyed my father . |
| 22 | I 've always been a bit of an organiser , so when I looked in on ffeatherstonehaugh 's , started to go regularly and saw that things seemed to be in a bit of a mess , it seemed to me I might usefully give it some of my time . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I 've always been a bit of a front man . |
| 24 | Warnock , under fire after a 6-0 blasting by Millwall , said : ‘ Millwall was a body blow but I 've told my players that I 've always been a fighter . |
| 25 | But I 've always been a champion of English wines . |
| 26 | Well er as I say , I 've always been a union member but then when I was self-employed it was different and I kept me fees up for a , to somewhere I do n't know what it was , but er when er yes , when er I was coming to come on me own and I went down the locksmith 's to see about it and they said er , what did they say now , they said you could n't do that , whatever it was , and er we 'll have to do this and that and the other . |
| 27 | I 've always been a worker yet there is a part of me that feels I could end up like that , too . |
| 28 | I 've always been a believer in fate , and that one shot can win or lose an Open . |
| 29 | I 've always been a sort of I wo n't say outgoing personality let's say right . |
| 30 | He said : ‘ I 've always been a worrier , and apparently it 's stress that makes the lining of the stomach and bowel come away . |