Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People like me are a menace to the AA men , calling them out on Sunday afternoon to rebuild engines that we idly began to dismantle on Sunday morning . |
| 2 | Among them are a portrait of the beauteous Dorelia with whom she took a passionate walking trip across France and who later lived in a ménage à trois with her brother and his wife . |
| 3 | A lot of me mates are black geezers and some of them are a bit tasty ’ . |
| 4 | The other manufacturers are trying to do the same but I think some of them are a bit behind Rover and they 've got to catch up . |
| 5 | So that is a possi I was just wondering which one it was cos I say I know some of them are a bit you know |
| 6 | Some of them are a bit tasteless I find . |
| 7 | Well , one or two of them are a bit sort of |
| 8 | Yeah , but er , some of them are a bit out of true cos they 're seconds do you think ? |
| 9 | Among them are a Duchess who inspired ‘ awe ; ’ an engineer 's ‘ stern looking ’ mother ; and the ‘ tall and stately ’ wife of a farm labourer sitting at the fire ‘ enjoying her ‘ bit of bacca . ’ |
| 10 | But they are wage labour , and those performing them are a part of the working class . |
| 11 | She said , I mean , she says I 'm not prejudiced here , and she says there 's obvious exceptions and they 're not bad but the majority of them are a waste of time ! |
| 12 | Beneath them are a group of children with an average age of 10 . |
| 13 | But life has its storms , it has its tempests , and some of them are a lot fiercer than others . |
| 14 | ‘ I been a bartender all my life . ’ |
| 15 | But wait a minute , I thought , had n't I been a woman out there ? |
| 16 | Had I been a father in my early twenties I would have been dreadful because there were so many things I still wanted to do . ’ |
| 17 | I am a rapper , wicked , wicked rapper . |
| 18 | I am a Guild member and everything I sell carries their hallmark . ’ |
| 19 | If that is speculation then I am a speculator , but it 's hardly piratical . |
| 20 | A sixty-year-old woman who was made to sweep the streets of her village with a placard reading " I am a red " pinned to her back , because her son had been an active communist prior to 1939 , was a typical example of how Spaniards continued to be bitterly divided . |
| 21 | I am a crocodile in the thick river of his feeling tone . |
| 22 | ‘ I am a servant of the Prime Minister . |
| 23 | ‘ But I am a servant now , ’ said McAllister incontrovertibly , ‘ not a delicate young lady . |
| 24 | Although I am a motorist myself I use the car as little as possible , prefering to cycle for all urban journeys . |
| 25 | I am a Word Processor Operator as well as a keen knitter and so I ‘ borrowed ’ a little high-tech knowledge from that field to solve my problem when it reared its ugly head during my introduction to the knitting machine . |
| 26 | Only North , according to his notebooks , tried to counter in Tehran with something similar. : ‘ Because I am a Christian , I understand and believe that when one dies in faith he will spend eternity in a far better place . ’ |
| 27 | Because I am a Christian , I have found the break less frightening , since I believe that my parents are now in the presence of the same God who is with me . |
| 28 | Love of family , of children , of life itself ; love of God , though she is a devout Muslim and I am a Christian ; shared curiosity , and genuine pleasure in each other 's company . |
| 29 | I am a Christian . |
| 30 | How do you know , how do I that I am a Christian ? |