Example sentences of "[verb] you be [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | do you know you 're a maniac ? |
| 2 | do you know you 're a maniac ? |
| 3 | How do you know you 're a Christian ? |
| 4 | How do I know you 're an American ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't know about your reputation , but I do know you are a policeman , and a good one . |
| 6 | ‘ I did n't know you were a writer , Bob , ’ said Jannie . |
| 7 | ‘ I did n't know you were a fisherman , ’ I said to him . |
| 8 | ‘ I did n't know you were a doctor , ’ she said . |
| 9 | ‘ Did n't know you were a Dickens enthusiast , Naseby . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You 're beautiful , and it would make it easy to guess you were a receptionist for a high-powered company . |
| 11 | Which meant that er you could try and get away if you liked but you as soon as you mentioned you were a baker and they looked at your age you were . |
| 12 | ‘ Say you 're a tailor , ’ whispered Avram , and they were the last words any member of his family was ever able to speak to him . |
| 13 | ‘ You say you 're a friend of Mike 's . |
| 14 | Of the forty who said yes , what do you mean by that when you say you 're a feminist ? |
| 15 | ‘ When you say you 're a singer , people do n't go , ‘ Well , what do you really do ? |
| 16 | ‘ The dole do n't even give you payments any more if you say you 're a musician , ’ Carl says , ‘ 'cos they 've said they 're not gon na fund the arts any more anyway . |
| 17 | ‘ You say you 're a doctor , ’ I said . |
| 18 | Very near the beginning Maggie gave a wee tip , do n't say you 're a representative say you 're an employee of Friends Provident , it makes life easier . |
| 19 | You say you 're an accountant , well a lot of people consider accountants to be tickers , those people who check other people 's facts and figures , and secondly you presented what the County Councillors do as more or less a rubber stamping of what the officers put before them . |
| 20 | They say you 're an adult but because you are still in the school situation you still get treated as a child . |
| 21 | What , say you 're the care-giver and I 'm the |
| 22 | ‘ Sir Fulke , you say you are the executor of Sir Ralph 's will ? ’ |
| 23 | And is it the same size ground as the match when there was twenty five thousand in you say you were a bit bothered about it in fact ? |
| 24 | Did I hear that detective say you were a reporter ? ’ |
| 25 | You could n't come and , you come bouncing in here and say you were a blacksmith . |
| 26 | I mean , it 's hard to think of an equivalent , but say you were an inhabitant of Hastings in the year 2066 and you went down to the beach one day and these longships were coming towards you and lots of people in chainmail and pointy helmets got out and said they 'd come for the Battle of Hastings and would you rustle up King Harold so they could shoot him in the eye and here was a huge wallet full of money for you to play your part . |
| 27 | It 's only then you say you were the person who telephoned . |
| 28 | It 's a shock to find you 're a stranger in your family , a cuckoo in the nest . |
| 29 | Now imagine you are an editor , annotating the passage for a student edition . |
| 30 | The DTI says you are a company first and a charity next , but we say we are a charity first . |