Example sentences of "[num] [conj] [pers pn] [is] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 12 ALTHOUGH he is an Italian , created by a Japanese , a recent New York Times editorial said : ‘ Not having a Nintendo is like not having a baseball bat . ’ |
| 2 | Henry Stalwort , forty-five if he 's a day ; two daughters , one nearly as old as our Jessie . |
| 3 | Billed as the Wedgwood Group Carnival Day 1993 and It 's A Knockout , one of the main attractions will include a pottery antiques roadshow with valuations by expert Peter Williams , author of ‘ Wedgwood — A Collector 's Guide ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ She 's sixty if she 's a day , ’ said Camille , who found it difficult , in her more regressive moments , to believe that anyone over the age of about twenty could find much reason for living . |
| 5 | That woman 's seventy if she 's a day . |
| 6 | He suggests at the start of verse 3 that it is a sort of divine reassurance from his dead friend . |
| 7 | Miles must be twenty-five if he 's a day . |
| 8 | This event last occurred in 1928 and it is a measure of the immense volume of water released that there was flooding on the Punjabi Plains , more than 800 miles away . |
| 9 | SMOKEY ROBINSON has been singing and writing his love sings since the age of 13 and it 's a whole three decades since he had his first hit . |
| 10 | but er , so now I 've got a thirty six , thirty five , thirty four , thirty four , thirty four , thirty two and thirty , so that 's a B count in B file , so there 's no hassle with that , but if I can get on and get rid of the er , I 've got twenty eight , twenty nine in there as well , er twenty eight in there as well , so I want to get rid of the twenty eight and twenty nine but it is a guarantee that a B file , so there 's |
| 11 | " Mrs Wilhemina Stirling , " Tilda put in , " ninety-seven if she 's a day . " |
| 12 | John , if it 's a mug two if it 's a mug two please . |