Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [be] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ballymena , still without the injured Stevie Smith , have something to prove from what for them has been a poor season . |
| 2 | Two other Section I matches see Schweppes Cup winners North Down entertaining North , with the aim of finishing third in the league to complete what for them has been a fine season . |
| 3 | For them driving is a relaxing hobby and its all about having fun … except that is when the judge is watching … |
| 4 | So anyway er I mean being a keen motorcyclist I borrowed a Moto Guzzi last year , you know a big V twin , beautiful bike , I went up into Derbyshire and had a you know ride on it , and thought well that 's not bad , see I 've always had British bikes , and I think I might g I might get one of those , so I came back in the house put the helmet down and said hey that Guzzi 's not bad , I could get a decent one for about two thousand you know about nineteen eighty , you know nice Le Mans Two . |
| 5 | ‘ I liken being a creative music person to going to see a football game or rugby game . |
| 6 | I liken being a creative music person to going to see a football game or rugby game . |
| 7 | That I stress is a preliminary view they could not and would not wish to make a final decision until they have all the information . |
| 8 | what I lacked was a foreign accent , almond eyes , straight or springy black hair , a black skin , a muscular physique , a mind full of difficult alphabets , a sense of rhythm , a pitiful history of slavery and oppression , and a massive member — though not necessarily in that order . |
| 9 | Their most important check is on whether someone has been a bad payer in the past . |
| 10 | ‘ All I want is a normal life . |
| 11 | And , for the moment , all I want is a little peace and quiet although it 's not all that quiet , thanks to the gaps between the attic floorboards left by the cottage 's Victorian jerrybuilder : how Riva can snore on through all those goings-on I do not know . |
| 12 | ALL I want is a fantastic time with just as crazy a female . |
| 13 | ‘ What I want is a biodegradable board — like the husk of a grain of wheat . |
| 14 | All I want is a yearly figure . ’ |
| 15 | The problems start when they get out of the ‘ All I want is a basic word processor ’ frame of mind and start getting into some serious computing . |
| 16 | All I want is a little cottage . |
| 17 | But right now , all I want is a fair hearing . |
| 18 | Returning on the bus from Medenine I noticed a solitary blonde whom I assumed was a stray package tourist from one of the hotels on the west of the island . |
| 19 | Well er it was only I 'd been a wee while at er Birsay and a wee while at Crantit till I were back at Holland but it was a different farm I was in then it was a bit different . |
| 20 | I think I got that because of my tracheotomy — I think I probably should have gotten it before , but I 'd been a bad girl . |
| 21 | I 've said all along if I 'd been a white man with my ability , I feel I 'd be a wealthy man . |
| 22 | I 'd been a naughty boy , |
| 23 | It 's quite funny really because er I used to go off I had an agreement with the headmaster at that particular time and he 'd h I 'd been a full time teacher with him , and he needed somebody desperately , that was the only reason obviously he wanted me back , and er I said Well look I can come back but I ca n't get back in order to go to the assembly at first . |
| 24 | It was erm it 's the first time that I 'd come across , I mean I 'd been a little bit of experience on , on inland waterways in Windsor er which I 'd lost when I went to Leicester and Lincoln I came back here of course and now we had the North Sea and the docks and erm that was a new area and a , and a really good challenge erm I particularly got involved with , with things like erm the movement of chemicals which was beginning to increase and coming into Felixstowe and , and er and , and er Ipswich erm and when I think back Felixstowe Dock , looking back , ended where the big jumbo tank , the Calor Gas tank is , that , that was the sort of range of Felixstowe Dock in those days . |
| 25 | One area I photographed was a huge field of sugar beet . |
| 26 | In what I hope was a rare lapse into intolerance , I asked the reporter next to me : ‘ Does that little sod always talk like that ? ’ |
| 27 | I knew that the Falkland Islands were similar to Shetland in that both were a group of treeless islands in the middle of an ocean , and I wanted to see just how wild creatures — and birds in particular — had adapted as different species in what I imagined was a similar environment . |
| 28 | He said : ‘ Special Branch should now be called in to flush out what I suspect is a politically-motivated mole operating within the palace . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm going to waste my time visiting two dealers , both of whom will try to sell me items I do n't want — and one of which I know is a nineteenth-century fake . |
| 30 | But none as far as I know is a homicidal maniac . |