Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] be a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm sorry , I just was a bit confused . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | ‘ Pretty stupid of me , I suppose , ’ he replied , ‘ but then I always was a sucker for a sob story . ’ |
| 4 | But he was teasing , so instead she said lightly , ‘ I always was a sucker for a good fairy tale . ’ |
| 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 | How could I possibly be a snob ? ’ |
| 7 | 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 ! |
| 8 | I really am a worrier . |
| 9 | ‘ But someone here is a murderer who knows how Ruthven died ! ’ |
| 10 | Though I too am a scholar , I mix with sultans , wherefore the visiting of me is not fitting . " |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | I too am a mother at home with a baby |
| 13 | Though I too have my outside proof of a professional self , I too am a woman who stays at home . |
| 14 | As Augustine said , the response of the ocean itself would be , ‘ But I too am a creature , that God made me . ’ |
| 15 | Toasting John Self with premixed martinis , I too was a cocktail shaker of hilarity and awe . |
| 16 | Well , we 've recently erm been involved in the Travel Lodge exercise , which obviously is a budget priced operation which is run by Trust House Forte , and there I think the company itself is establishing very good standards because the occupancy rate of the Travel Lodges is so high , you know , that other hoteliers are quite jealous of it . |
| 17 | True he expresses a preference for the impersonal concept of Truth ( Satya ) , which etymologically is a derivative of Being ( Sat ) , in contemplating the Ultimate , but this does not preclude other more personal concepts of God . |
| 18 | Would it even matter , if this rabble of which he had himself once been a part , managed to get their vote and fill the House of Commons with men who would pass Factory Acts galore , including that damnable Ten Hours Bill of Richard Oastler 's , so that no man would be able to control his own affairs ? |
| 19 | George had himself once been a soldier . |
| 20 | Correct forms are regular and simple , e.g. the English language usage by which straight is a metaphor for honest and crooked a metaphor for dishonest . |
| 21 | but er , which really was a waste of money it was , well it 's used a bit for tourism now |
| 22 | In the end paper is paper ; which unfortunately is a bit of philosophical dead-end . |
| 23 | This view is based upon a phrase which the Empress is supposed to have uttered ‘ It 's my pretty little war ’ , which in fact she never pronounced and which indeed was a newspaper invention appearing only in 1874 . |
| 24 | Which then was a copy to your memo answer you |
| 25 | Which again is a part of the luck which probably saved me and er when I got down to the pump which was directly below where the explosion occurred , there was about three or four of us there and er as I said that the only indication that we got out it was a an enormous bang just directly overhead . |
| 26 | The register itself is a specialized department of the companies court , which again is a section of the high court ( organized separately in each county ) . |
| 27 | Later , at the time of the collapse of the empire , we also purchased the small er manufacturing plant in which again was a plant that I 'd started . |
| 28 | I popped into this shop , which incidentally is a shop , not a pile 'em high sell it cheap warehouse , to buy some labels for our printer . |
| 29 | But second key-noter Dr Arno Penzias , vice president of Research at AT&T 's Bell Labs , who besides being a Nobel prize winner has the additional claim to fame of being the boss of Unix creators Ken Thomson and Dennis Ritchie , disagreed . |
| 30 | So you just be a bit careful on that one . |