Example sentences of "[pron] be a [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am a Spurs supporter and my kids would never forgive me . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ where a police constable ( or a traffic warden ) in uniform ’ This point can be proved by starting the officer 's or the warden 's evidence by ‘ I am a police constable ( or traffic warden ) in such and such a police force and I was in uniform ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ My name is Deacon Billingsley — ’ he paused as though I should recognise the name , ‘ and I am a police officer . ’ |
| 4 | I am a police officer and he is my prisoner . |
| 5 | I am a veterans visitor for JS and so come into contact with veterans who have served many years with the company . |
| 6 | Er , John work for Management Services , I 'm a Systems Analyst and been with C U for just over three years now . |
| 7 | I 'm a police officer . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I know you 'll think this is funny but I 'm a police officer . |
| 9 | I 'm a Customs officer and I arrest him ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I was a forces child , ’ he explained . |
| 11 | At the time er when I was a firearms instructor er that was the job that I did every day I went to work either firearms training or firearms operations . |
| 12 | I do n't think he thought I was a malai informer . |
| 13 | I had found her when I was a Weapons Instructor at the Royal Marines ' Lympstone camp in Devon . |
| 14 | I was a police officer erm attached or er on a permanent basis with the operations support unit which we were based in er . |
| 15 | Er in December nineteen eighty eight er I was a police constable , I was stationed at I was er a firearms instructor in the operations department and also a tactical advisor . |
| 16 | Er where I ended up in Barracks which was a guards barrage barracks near . |
| 17 | Mr in December nineteen eighty eight , how long had you been a firearms officer , or tactical advisor ? |
| 18 | And excuse me , for how long had you been a firearms officer ? |
| 19 | And how long had you been a firearms officer ? |
| 20 | If you are a Windows user who wants to be able to use your dBASE format files ( and applications ) under Windows , you will not find it very easy . |
| 21 | ‘ No ! … you can not do this to me … you are a police officer … you dare not … no ! … my God , no ! … ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Besides , if you 're a drugs syndicate and want to murder someone who knows a bit too much , you do n't do it in the victim 's office , do you ? |
| 23 | Right , erm So compounding this effect of asset fixity may be erm , the case where a number of similar products , or competing products er , their , their prices fall simultaneously , so if you 're , you know , if you 're wheat , if you 're a cereals farmer in the south east of England , alright , and the prices of wheat , barley , and virtually all , sort of , oil seed rape , anything else that you can use the land for , if they all fall , you know , there 's no point in switching production , alright , so you may continue to , to produce , even though the price of the product has fallen , alright , because the prices of all other competing products has fallen . |
| 24 | So got a special pass because you 're a firearms officer which is essentially deals with your authorisation to have a gun and reminds you of the law . |
| 25 | Like , I 'd say to a young officer , maybe just out of the depot [ training centre ] , if a old lady calls you for assistance to her , you 're a police officer and she will look to you for help , ad we have to leave people with a certain level of satisfaction . |
| 26 | But also because you 're a police officer as well , you 've got the usual warrant card . |
| 27 | And the E I and the J and the P are if you like sort of part of the bodywork which decides whether you 're a sports car or a heavy goods |
| 28 | " Here mate , " one of them said in a puzzled voice , " You 're a customs officer , what the hell were you doing in there ? |
| 29 | ‘ I did n't know that you were a watersports enthusiast . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ She is a police officer and naturally in the light of her vocation she was determined he was not going to get away with it . |