Example sentences of "[pers pn] have be a small [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't have a protective big brother : all I had was a small sister . |
| 2 | He held her against him , nursing her as though she had been a small child , while looking down into her face . |
| 3 | If you had been a small shopkeeper with some money why might you have done the same ? |
| 4 | Well I think everybody would , that had had their privacy erupted like they had been because they 'd been a small community for well through the years you see and for strangers to come in , I think it applies in every place that you go to , new places , you know that are built up after it just being a little country village people do resent you but I think now that they , they are really erm accepting us for the fact that we have brought things that they would never have had had the new town not been er sta , you know started here . |
| 5 | Fortunately , it had been a small iceberg , as icebergs go . |