Example sentences of "[pron] 's a [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 'E 's a terrible racking cough . ’ |
| 2 | She 's still in business , but now she 's a one woman band working at home from her garage . |
| 3 | ‘ Mark 's ma has got a livery stable — she 's a real leathery Jane . |
| 4 | Corn plaster queen lands weekly spot on ‘ Kelly ’ ‘ She 's a one-woman shock force ’ |
| 5 | " Ee , ah 'm sorry , Mr Herriot , she 's a right awd bugger . |
| 6 | but she 's a right library type , miserable as sin |
| 7 | ‘ But she 's a simple country girl with hardly a thought in her head . |
| 8 | It makes me cough a bit because when I came on the scene he was the one academically everything and she was the one who was academically rather disadvantaged but she , she was , you know , no not having the greatest of , of , of success but erm it was said that she would n't be able to be a student nurse because she was n't bright enough but you know she clocked up the O levels and A levels like guide badges and she went off on this pre-nursing course in South Notts you know and she was in and out of the Queens on a course and people and , you know , and she said I do n't know all the answers but I 've a rough idea about some of the questions , I want to be a nurse and off she went to , to , to Walsall and I 'm not saying she 's a brilliant student nurse but erm absolutely clear that she 's better than some of the others . |
| 9 | She 's a big Portuguese man-of-war . |
| 10 | Yeah that 's obvious , she 's a fucking sex maniac |
| 11 | She 's a lovely girl Bev int she ? |
| 12 | " She 's a little slave girl , " said Paul , a lascivious note creeping into his voice . |
| 13 | She 's a true ben Issachar , that infuriating mixture of the wondrous and the terrible . |
| 14 | David Nicholson meanwhile has signed up Adrian McGuire , who 's a future champion jockey in the making . |
| 15 | But the Duke of Marlborough says his son and heir , who 's a former drug addict , has n't even contacted HIM . |
| 16 | ‘ When a new assistant joins us , we put him or her with my deputy , Wendy , or with Joan , who 's a senior care assistant , so that they can follow them , be with them , be shown things at floor level . |
| 17 | Yeah well , that one 's a new cheque book . |
| 18 | On the networking side there 's a built-in Ethernet module which sits on a daughterboard and uses AMD 's new PCNet/ISA chip . |
| 19 | There 's a deep clothes cupboard in my bedroom . |
| 20 | There 's a separate Channel Marketing Seminar attached to the new Unix Reseller Show in Dallas that 's set for May 3 , the day before the expo kicks off . |
| 21 | There 's a long waiting list and those who get there have to run a gauntlet , which not all survive . |
| 22 | There 's a long draft report I would like you to do , by lunchtime if possible . |
| 23 | But , Lily , there 's a second desk key somewhere . |
| 24 | There 's a second hand sale , there 's eight Lego 's , two |
| 25 | I , I , I , I think Mr Chairman what I , I think I explained to you what my concern was , that we have cases where there 's a serious road accident , and erm , and the road is stopped , we have no real authority to turn traffic or divert traffic , but the , the police are the only ones that can , and if we want to get down in , in , into an emergency very quickly . |
| 26 | There 's a serious band meeting/liaison and we 're seriously thinking about jacking it in and going back to Blighty until Emma sings the first verse and chorus of ‘ The Show Must Go On ’ by Queen . |
| 27 | There 's a Total Heating system with Central Control to suit every sort of home , from a one-bedroom flat to a four-bedroom family house . |
| 28 | There 's a young plain-clothes man working on it but he has to go slowly . |
| 29 | Out in the auditorium everything has to be checked every day for safety and there 's a non-stop maintenance programme because the show must always go on . |
| 30 | There 's a flourishing bird culture , some write , others draw . |