Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] be [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Samuel at Park City , Utah , on the opening races of the new season Cannons put smile on Willi 's Face ‘ T HIS is the place , ’ said Brigham Young as his wandering , persecuted tribe of Mormons set eyes on the Great Salt Lake and the Wasatch mountains . |
| 2 | I 'm a dur I 'm a dur brain . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , when I lived in Sheffield I was a founder member of the North Midlands Labrador Rescue . |
| 4 | Let me put it poetically : in Danu I was a garden plant with roots in the soil that would sustain me indefinitely . |
| 5 | Mum , mum I was a bit slow . |
| 6 | ‘ Of course I am no scholar though , ’ a risk , ‘ we soldiers must at times have a scholar 's curiosity . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Some infidel was wearing an octiron collar , most unsporting , and of course I was a lot sharper in those days and my master used to use me to cut silk handkerchiefs in mid-air and — am I boring you ? ’ |
| 8 | I 'm the only nice Manc supporter there is … and of course I 'm a fairy tale ! |
| 9 | People said I resembled Gerry Ford , though of course I 'm a lot more handsome than that now . |
| 10 | Sorry I 've sold seven houses I 'm a bit prejudiced against estate agents |
| 11 | I tell Major Mills I 'm an idiot in the kitchen , and Hillary-Jones spends ten minutes with details of leaving batter to stand , do I have a cold room , not a refrigerator , that 's too harsh … |
| 12 | ‘ Not yet ’ , was the reply : ‘ At present I am the Member of Parliament for Henley ’ ! ’ |
| 13 | But I gave her a cold stare and fluffed my fur out ; I could n't have her thinking I was a pushover . |
| 14 | However — ‘ To be honest , ’ she said , looking into his set and speechless face , ‘ it 's my brothers I 'm a bit worried about . ’ |
| 15 | I was a computer engineer , though normally I tell journalists I was a gravedigger . ’ |
| 16 | And that was the only time that I 've fired a rifle cos , well actually I went got , rose to a corporal I was a corporal when they finished and erm I was in er made cor lance corporal and then I was er with a heavy Vickers machine gun , that 's the one with the has water cooled casing on it the big heavy one you see , and I was with that , that team . |
| 17 | Asking why , were told the Standard had written a story on ‘ a dominatrix club I 'm a member of ’ , in which they 'd described the Penthouse Pet as ‘ plump ’ . |
| 18 | Whenever the papers wanted a quote they came to me , when the local radio wanted an interview I was the spokesperson . |
| 19 | I Figure I 'm A Woman |
| 20 | Mummy I 'm a bit wet |
| 21 | In later years many critics were to take up Lorentz 's implication that in essence I am a Fugitive was a conventional melodrama centred on a romantic hero . |
| 22 | To his mind theirs was a business , like any other . |
| 23 | At 18 , she decides after her affair with the French teacher that outwardly she is a girl , she looks like a girl , and she ca n't go through life thinking she 's a boy . |
| 24 | The kind of friends she had were loyal by definition , and they liked her , in their eyes she was a woman who could do no wrong ( she was only separated , mind , not divorced ) , they were ready to do any thing for her and when she would not let them they did it for the girl . |
| 25 | You do know how much emotion you are the cause of back there , do n't you ? ’ |
| 26 | It is no good you being a couch potato and having a Dobermann , only to wonder why it seems so frustrated with its existence . |
| 27 | ‘ Now we 've got Rebecca she 's a delight . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , to my mind you 're a fool , ’ said Maggie , her sympathy evaporating . |
| 29 | Sien , he stressed , was that kind of person : in other words she was a substitute for something else — as prostitutes are — and from an inferior class . |
| 30 | You have to go through a short course at the R A F College Cranwell and then once that that teaches you the R A F side of it makes you into an officer because at the end of the day you maybe there to do public relations but if the spaghetti hits the fan you 're an officer and you 're a combatant and you know you carry a gun around when you 're in a war zone and you know you 're expected to use it and if the senior officer of the unit next to you gets shot and you 're the most senior officer then you take over |