Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [be] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This dual usage makes them seem to fill the limbo-land that lies between rhythm and lead approaches , and therefore an ability to play them fluently is a more-or-less essential guitar skill . |
| 2 | My original idea of telling them together was a bad one . |
| 3 | I 'm sorry , I just was a bit confused . |
| 4 | but think about all the people that we are nice to , I mean look at James , a prime example , have I ever been a bitch to him , never , but I stand up here , when I see him I 'm like oh yeah ha ha , you know , laugh along with his jokes and |
| 5 | " Well , I always was a gossip , always will be , it 's in my nature , One has to come to terms with one 's little weaknesses , " she said tolerantly , as if speaking of someone else 's . |
| 6 | ‘ Pretty stupid of me , I suppose , ’ he replied , ‘ but then I always was a sucker for a sob story . ’ |
| 7 | But he was teasing , so instead she said lightly , ‘ I always was a sucker for a good fairy tale . ’ |
| 8 | At 11 he won a seat on the school council by putting up his best friend to split the opposition vote ( ‘ I always was a devious bugger ’ ) , at 14 he joined Greenpeace and at 16 paid thirty bob to become a Liberal . |
| 9 | How could I possibly be a snob ? ’ |
| 10 | because I breed racehorses , I also am a farmer so I wear two hats , but I 've actually seen foxes sit down we move the hounds move in , si sit down and scratch in the middle of a field , and then they think ah ! |
| 11 | ‘ I really am a s-silly ass s-sometimes , are n't I ? ’ he said apologetically . |
| 12 | I really am a worrier . |
| 13 | " I really am a little tipsy , " she said . |
| 14 | ‘ I really am a long , long way away . ’ |
| 15 | Well , I suppose you could say I really was a successful student — first class academic results , running for the College , first bassoon in the Orchestra ( what a joke ! ) , and all that . |
| 16 | I really was a little doll being dressed up and arranged and ornamented , 'she had become , like the Shah 's friends the Frimaldis of Monaco , a Paris Match person presented to massed readers as a fairy tale , a pretty commoner raised to royalty and yet retaining her human touch . |
| 17 | ‘ Piss orf , ’ I hissed at them and they calmly turned away and continued down the street , convinced I really was a genuine cabby . |
| 18 | The , after the school I was never one for er I never was a great one for sport . |
| 19 | Although I did go and watch the rugby , I never was a great one for , and I , I used to swim quite a lot . |
| 20 | I too am a lost , insecure Colin , my feelings of togetherness an illusion . |
| 21 | As Augustine said , the response of the ocean itself would be , ‘ But I too am a creature , that God made me . ’ |
| 22 | Though I too have my outside proof of a professional self , I too am a woman who stays at home . |
| 23 | Though I too am a scholar , I mix with sultans , wherefore the visiting of me is not fitting . " |
| 24 | Yes er it goes on to say , erm for I too am a man placed under authority , having soldiers under me see Jesus was a man of authority the other officer was saying the same |
| 25 | I too am a mother at home with a baby |
| 26 | Toasting John Self with premixed martinis , I too was a cocktail shaker of hilarity and awe . |
| 27 | So you just be a bit careful on that one . |
| 28 | ‘ She always was a bit doolally , ’ Mary Ann said , smiling . |
| 29 | She always was a weird one . |
| 30 | She always was a bit ‘ igh and mighty for the likes of us , but I did ‘ ear mention that Kitty had been to see her at London University . ’ |