Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [be] a [adj] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I really am a long , long way away . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I really am a s-silly ass s-sometimes , are n't I ? ’ he said apologetically . |
| 6 | ‘ Piss orf , ’ I hissed at them and they calmly turned away and continued down the street , convinced I really was a genuine cabby . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The , after the school I was never one for er I never was a great one for sport . |
| 10 | Although I did go and watch the rugby , I never was a great one for , and I , I used to swim quite a lot . |
| 11 | I too am a lost , insecure Colin , my feelings of togetherness an illusion . |
| 12 | Basically everything we all agree at the Institute the question of improving the lot of the Third World is the responsibility of Third Worlders , and in fact a number of us would add that in very many cases , certainly not in all , it would not be achieved through slow incremental technical change , but would require in some cases very major social structural changes that in some cases erm will only be brought about very major social upheaval erm and there all we can do is add to perhaps the element of increasing consciousness and awareness of the problems , which furthermore is a two way street , I mean when we have this study activities we learn as much from the people who attend the seminars as we tell them . |
| 13 | A practice may be abused without its necessarily being a bad one . |
| 14 | I think it might be a good id , I do n't know whether , Lisa would like it better if you would let her know and let her get Kev talking on it , which perhaps be a better idea if she was in on it , but I 'll , I 'll have a word with her |
| 15 | Is eligible anybody in group four , which obviously is a high risk occupation , anybody in that group is unable to have a four week deferred period . |
| 16 | I was in Mitchenham more than a marginal , which sadly the Tories retained and my own seat in Wantage , which also is a safe Tory seat . |
| 17 | She went on : ‘ Information at the moment comes from people who come forward voluntarily for testing , which inevitably is a biased sample . ’ |
| 18 | In the Potteries a prosperous general dealer in china and earthenware had handed over his business to his sons , who subsequently let the business collapse : his grandson remembered him ‘ sitting in the sunshine … just below the house which was once his own. , More successful in his retirement was a London coal merchant who provides the single instance of the complete change of life and place which today is a widespread ideal for retirement . |
| 19 | But such was the disappointment on his face that I was compelled to agree that we would enjoy such a picnic , which indeed is a delicious meal in other circumstances — at Henley during summer , or at Glyndebourne on a good afternoon — but in the middle of the South African veld , on our way to Rhodesia , its incongruity would have occurred to anyone except to a British diplomat . |
| 20 | Now the Beaconsfield trio finally release a follow-up on the Creation label — ‘ Philly ’ , which has a few string sounds that may have been influenced by ( or stolen from ) old Philadelphia International disco classics , but which otherwise is a solid gold indie dance tune . |
| 21 | This is suggested by the very vehemence of the speeches and the fact that they always contained prolonged and strident calls on Cuban nationalism ( which certainly was a strong popular sentiment ) . |
| 22 | In such a case , the foreign nationality or residence of the defendant would not by itself normally be a weighty factor against the court exercising its jurisdiction under the sections . |
| 23 | She always was a weird one . |
| 24 | Even a temporary relapse back to old behaviour and its damaging consequences may itself hopefully be a therapeutic process because it acts as a reminder that recovery is a continuing process that has to be worked for on a continuing basis by each and every recovering person . |
| 25 | ‘ You always were a bloody liar , Lambert . |
| 26 | ‘ You always were a selfish little madam , wrapped up in yourself to the exclusion of everyone else . |
| 27 | ‘ You always were a stubborn creature , ’ she said with a charming tenderness in her voice . |
| 28 | I believe that his suspicions in this regard were more than amply fuelled by the activities of Marcia Williams , who also was a great believer in the conspiracy theory . |
| 29 | Michio Watanabe , who also was a former Finance Minister , did unexpectedly well , obtaining 120 votes , while Hiroshi Mitsuzuka , a former Minister for International Trade and Industry , came third with 87 votes . |
| 30 | But if she really is a Glaucous , it will , of course , mean there is one less Lears in the world . |