Example sentences of "[pron] [am/are] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am a Spurs supporter and my kids would never forgive me . ’ |
| 2 | I am a Windows fan , and can tell you that it runs applications at a rate of knots most folks just are n't accustomed to . |
| 3 | ‘ My name is Deacon Billingsley — ’ he paused as though I should recognise the name , ‘ and I am a police officer . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ where a police constable ( or a traffic warden ) in uniform ’ This point can be proved by starting the officer 's or the warden 's evidence by ‘ I am a police constable ( or traffic warden ) in such and such a police force and I was in uniform ’ . |
| 5 | I am a police officer and he is my prisoner . |
| 6 | ‘ I am a sans-papiers . |
| 7 | This is the reason I am a sans-papiers . |
| 8 | I am a veterans visitor for JS and so come into contact with veterans who have served many years with the company . |
| 9 | They know I 'm a players ' manager and will look after them . |
| 10 | Without conceit , he told me : " I 'm a ones and can go on playing the same music for ever . " |
| 11 | Er , John work for Management Services , I 'm a Systems Analyst and been with C U for just over three years now . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm a police offer and … ’ |
| 13 | I 'm a police officer . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I know you 'll think this is funny but I 'm a police officer . |
| 15 | I 'm a Customs officer and I arrest him ! ’ |
| 16 | Er similarly in I' think it 's Japanese you find that men and women use different for certain things , er not because not because of terms of style just because they are the correct words to use if you are a man or if you are a women . |
| 17 | If you are a Windows user who wants to be able to use your dBASE format files ( and applications ) under Windows , you will not find it very easy . |
| 18 | There you are a ladies watch , a cocktail watch and a Seiko bracelet watch . |
| 19 | ‘ No ! … you can not do this to me … you are a police officer … you dare not … no ! … my God , no ! … ’ |
| 20 | Yeah , cos you 're a Elevenses . |
| 21 | ‘ Besides , if you 're a drugs syndicate and want to murder someone who knows a bit too much , you do n't do it in the victim 's office , do you ? |
| 22 | one journalist , one famous Scottish journalist told me when I wo , when I , when I had ambitions to be a journalists , oh do n't go into journalism because you 're a women and all you 'll get to write about is fashion ! |
| 23 | Right , erm So compounding this effect of asset fixity may be erm , the case where a number of similar products , or competing products er , their , their prices fall simultaneously , so if you 're , you know , if you 're wheat , if you 're a cereals farmer in the south east of England , alright , and the prices of wheat , barley , and virtually all , sort of , oil seed rape , anything else that you can use the land for , if they all fall , you know , there 's no point in switching production , alright , so you may continue to , to produce , even though the price of the product has fallen , alright , because the prices of all other competing products has fallen . |
| 24 | So got a special pass because you 're a firearms officer which is essentially deals with your authorisation to have a gun and reminds you of the law . |
| 25 | And I ca n't decide whether it 's , you 're A types and you go into construction , or you 're in construction and it makes you into A types . |
| 26 | Like , I 'd say to a young officer , maybe just out of the depot [ training centre ] , if a old lady calls you for assistance to her , you 're a police officer and she will look to you for help , ad we have to leave people with a certain level of satisfaction . |
| 27 | But also because you 're a police officer as well , you 've got the usual warrant card . |
| 28 | You 've your Dad , your auntie Jackie , your Mum 's got Aids and you 're a paki ! |
| 29 | And the E I and the J and the P are if you like sort of part of the bodywork which decides whether you 're a sports car or a heavy goods |
| 30 | " Here mate , " one of them said in a puzzled voice , " You 're a customs officer , what the hell were you doing in there ? |