Example sentences of "[pron] [be] a [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think the course is a success partly because I am a farmer 's wife myself , ’ admits Sue . |
| 2 | Yes , I thought , they 've seen me get out of the pick-up truck , I look wind-blown and ruddy , there 's mud on my hands , they 're bound to think I 'm a crofter 's wife . |
| 3 | They know I 'm a players ' manager and will look after them . |
| 4 | ‘ Gran , I 'm not the normal one of the family after all ; I 'm a witch 's daughter , I can travel to other worlds and make magic . ’ |
| 5 | Well , I 'm a farmer 's wife as well , and the most of the farming community do n't want irradiation either . |
| 6 | If this is style , I 'm a monkey 's uncle . |
| 7 | That 's a miserable farmhouse , and the people in it are perilously unhappy or I 'm a monkey 's uncle . |
| 8 | As it ended Silas almost snarled , ‘ If that is n't Battleaxe Bertha I 'm a monkey 's uncle . ’ |
| 9 | Saturday Night Fever ‘ You can tell by the way I use my walk , I 'm a woman 's man . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm a woman 's man , ’ Florian returned complacently as their driver eased his slow way out of one of the traffic jams that were a major problem in Taipei . |
| 11 | When , as part of my training , I was regressed under hypnosis by my late husband ( also a qualified hypnotherapist ) , I did indeed turn out to have lived during the Tudor period — but I was a pig-farmer 's daughter who , having lived a pitiful existence , died from a gangrenous leg at the age of fifteen . |
| 12 | First as scullery maid , then — when he found I was a vicar 's daughter — Tom put me upstairs . |
| 13 | I had seen him turn human with Margaret , but that glimpse had not been enough to tell me now whether he had stopped on recognizing me for her sake or because I was a Benedict 's nurse . |
| 14 | ‘ I was a ship 's cook in the Merchant Navy and used to handling men . |
| 15 | You asked her if she would like to have the bairn , her being a minister 's wife . |
| 16 | Did I tell me when we got up to erm Newcastle we turned on the local news , they 'd had five inches of rain which is a winter 's rain in four days . |
| 17 | I have begun to Fence which is a man 's game and I am to have my uncle Sette 's foil when next we go to England which may be in the summer . |
| 18 | Indeed , they are updated in ‘ unreal time ’ , which is a luddite 's way of saying three working days . |
| 19 | But surely she owed her beloved that honour at least , the honour of single combat , which is a dragon 's privilege . |
| 20 | The diagnosis above is a very general definition of this family which is a taxonomist 's nightmare defying a unified description because of the variety of generic forms . |
| 21 | 1.43 It was said in Coenen v Payne [ 1974 ] 1 WLR 984 ( which was a defendant 's application for a split trial ) that such a trial will be ordered whenever it is just and convenient , and not only in difficult and unusual cases , and in Ashworth v Berkeley Walbrood ( 1984 ) The Times , 13 July that the court can be asked to try a preliminary issue whenever there is a real probability that the effect will be to save time and expense and simplify the issues , which need not be limited to questions of law . |
| 22 | ‘ I hear that you are a canon 's daughter — and I am an archdeacon 's son , ’ said Rupert lightly , trying to make conversation . |
| 23 | We do n't want the children from Columbia on the streets etcetera , because there 's sort of an awful helplessness about us , because we think we 're doing one person , how on earth can we actually do anything , you see if enough people think together that if possible the change happens , then it can happen , right , and you are actually the ones that are going to have to be considering that you are a world 's visitor , you are not just Tom and you 're not just Anthony right , erm , you 've really got to think , what about Jayne , there you are ideal Jayne |
| 24 | ‘ I gather you 're a farmer 's daughter , ’ he said , which indeed I was . |
| 25 | ‘ You 're a clergyman 's son , then ? ’ she asked . |
| 26 | But you 're a rector 's wife before you 're a mother . |
| 27 | Sue Lloyd Jones is ideally qualified to teach farm-based tourism — she 's a farmer 's wife and a business studies lecturer . |
| 28 | She 's a women 's libber , if you do n't mind , a bloody Communist too , I should n't be surprised . |
| 29 | She 's a women 's libber , so it 's all on offer . |
| 30 | ‘ She 's a repair-dog 's bad dream come true ! ’ |