Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] be [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought , if I tell the driver I 'm a real archbishop and I 'll pay him the other end he 'll just say , ‘ Oh , stuff it , mate ! ' ’ |
| 2 | Okay , erm I 'm a littl I 'm a little bit I 'm a little bit worried about er this er exploitation of people and security because they 've got no proven record and no medical evidence , if he was that good this guy will be a millionaire and people will be growing hair all the time , to put somebody on the chair , without knowing if that person 's got blood pressure or heart problems , they could suffer from a s a stroke erm have er or be partially paralysed , so I I think I like to see this man here maybe in ten fifteen years time with proper proven er medical evidence . |
| 3 | Down towards the last hour I 'm the last person to drop off just trying to leave them with as many positive thoughts and perhaps talking quietly to the odd individual . |
| 4 | ‘ I have played alongside internationals wherever I have been , so of course I am a better player , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Someone has to do something about it , and of course I 'm the obvious person . |
| 6 | By the end of the afternoon I was a nervous wreck . |
| 7 | But once at university I was an apt student . |
| 8 | In your mind I was a scarlet woman and could be nothing else . |
| 9 | If I gave an interview I was the greatest guy in the world but if I said ‘ no , I want some time to myself ’ , they would n't give me the time of day . |
| 10 | No but you would 've said to me to , you know I had no one there Catriona , I was the only girl in the shack I was the only girl there and it was just so |
| 11 | By the way just for the tape she 's a right fuck . |
| 12 | Five B status is going to bring in two to three million a year over the next five years , the total cost of running the scheme is one point three million pounds , in effect we 're a net contributor |
| 13 | Cabinet colleague on Chris Patten , scriptwriter to the PM We are an easy target , just 14 defenceless women with no expertise . |
| 14 | In the public mind they 're a single entity . |
| 15 | It is learning about religion it 's an educational process and it has an importance , whether it 's learning about religion and whether its learning it as a cultural , historical and a religious er tradition of the country and that is what is important . |
| 16 | Bradley Star is a very nice horse he 's a classy performer this one , Josh Gifford 's horses are in tremendous form and I was talking to the man who who rides him Deckland Murphy he 's my next door neighbour he thinks he 'll run a big race . |
| 17 | Play allowed to continue , forwards towards , he 's had a good game tonight if it 's even if it 's not his regular position he 's been pushed there by and as a result it 's a free kick to Shrewsbury Town . |
| 18 | Soon as he gets behind the wheel of a car he 's an absolute dickhead . |
| 19 | Eryngium alpinum I have saved almost to the last , not because it is common , which it is , but rather that to my mind it is the loveliest representative of the Umbelliferae family ( which includes , strange though it may seem , the carrot ) . |
| 20 | In her mind it was the ultimate degradation , and any man who could live off the proceeds of it was the lowest of the low . |
| 21 | I do n't disagree I mean I I again it 's a key it 's a key element to actually formalizing the training in that I mean , if you 're going to do it properly , it all fits into you know |
| 22 | With his huge rough hands and a large red nose , he looked like a rebellious peasant from Doctor Zhivago — and compared to the four veterans of the Afghan campaign in the next compartment he was a veritable teetotaller . |
| 23 | If we are above government guidelines it is the labour party 's fault and if indeed we are penalised in the future it is the labour party 's fault , none other and to the extent that you run the risk now by having this excess eleven percent budget over the er standing expenditure assessment er will once again unfortunately find you guilty in that regard . |
| 24 | he 's a reject he 's a real reject . |
| 25 | I once watched a film on the telly it was a pretty crap film really ! |
| 26 | Similarly , remind yourself that even if the worst comes to the worst and you need to go in the middle of the interview it is no big deal although it feels like a disaster to you . |
| 27 | When you take notes during the interview it is a good idea to do so a short while after the relevant moment has passed so that the candidate is not aware of what prompted you to write . |
| 28 | In practice it was a straightforward piece of CIA terrorism designed to overthrow by force a legitimately elected government that America did not like . |
| 29 | THE stock market rang out 1989 in fine style yesterday but for the pound it was the familiar story of a struggling recovery from a previous hefty fall . |
| 30 | For additional effect it is a good idea to have a large pair of sunglasses and a summer type holiday hat . |