Example sentences of "[pron] be [adj] and a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them are American and a subset of them have this risible attitude that they can get away with just making loads of noise and , as long as the audience is in a similarly altered state of mind , no-one will be the wiser . |
| 2 | I am 16 and a typical Scorpio — understanding , emotional , honest , outgoing and caring . |
| 3 | I am Asian and a big Smiths fan ( from the days of '82 ) . |
| 4 | I 'm eight and a half years old and disgusted that my mother has to come with me to see A Hard Day 's Night when usually she just sees me to the edge of the estate and across the main road . |
| 5 | ‘ Considering I 'm eight and a half months pregnant and have n't heard from you for a couple of weeks . |
| 6 | nine stone seven , I said what you talking about nine stone seven , I 'm eleven and a half stone , not now you 're not she said |
| 7 | As I 'm six and a half feet tall , it 's difficult to get jeans to fit me . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm sixteen and a half , Bean . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You 're much more sensible than you used to be , but your mum ca n't see it , and my mum still thinks I 'm three and a half . ’ |
| 10 | When I was eighteen and a half I was let out , but I think I got institutionalised being there three and a half years , and I wanted to stay there . |
| 11 | ( I was four and a half years on the Western Front as a stretcher bearer ) and only one of the worst cases who had it and lived through it . |
| 12 | I was four and a half years old and I was about to start Bedfield Primary School . |
| 13 | And then I was four and a half year in Sanday . |
| 14 | Fifteen and a half Er well no I was nineteen and a half then you see , five years is n't it . |
| 15 | ‘ After my father died , when I was five and a half , she used to make me bath myself all alone . |
| 16 | I did a dreadful thing , the worst thing of my life , when I was twelve and a half years old , or I feel that I did , and nothing can change it … ’ |
| 17 | " I was 11 and a half stone ( 160lb/73kg ) when I began the WNAS diet . |
| 18 | I 've , I 'd got a few stares from some of the women there , I mean , there are some women there that are huge , and maybe they looked at me and thought oh I hope I can wear leggings like that one day , I mean I do n't think I look too bad in the leggings , I mean I would never have done it when I used to go to Weightwatchers when I was thirteen and a half stone , I would never of gone in leggings , no way , but it does n't |
| 19 | I started school to er Bowvale School on Dovecote Lane at Eastwood , when I was two and a half . |
| 20 | Maybe I was lackadaisical and a bit self-indulgent . |
| 21 | I was six and a half years the , the minister of Whalsay and Skerries where the first er centre h ha has been built and there was rejoicing in that community that the that social responsibility had been invited by the council to join in this work . |
| 22 | Having looked at my passport , the Gendarme made a telephone call during which he turned to look at me , spelling out my name and saying that I was English and a former paratrooper . |
| 23 | Because I was older and a bit more staid I was going to have a hard time . |
| 24 | I first started when I was seven and a half . |
| 25 | My parents kept a baby book about me until I was sixteen , and when I was three and a half they wrote : ‘ Takes a great interest in her clothes and chooses her own outfit each morning . |
| 26 | Margaret , you see , cos Gerry used to behave as if , his was sub-standard and a professional |
| 27 | Start from the layby next to the Dundonnell River which is two and a half miles south of Dundonnell on the A832 . |
| 28 | You 'll notice on the overhead cost the big cost is the advertising which is two and a half million pounds and that unfortunately takes us into a a net loss at the end of the year of one point almost two million pounds . |
| 29 | If you took the lowest number of booklets which is two and a half thousand which is probably may be a two sometimes three three doctor practice |
| 30 | ‘ Four thousand revs will give you 90 mph in the Formula First , ’ he said , ‘ and in a car which is one and a half inches off the ground , that will feel like 190 mph , so it should be plenty fast enough for today . ’ |