Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] be [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I advocate is exuding an aura of femaleness . |
| 2 | See I 've been getting a kind of rash on my face |
| 3 | ‘ But right now , all I want is to lead a normal life . ’ |
| 4 | He bragged to friends : ‘ All I want is to kill a copper . |
| 5 | Chilling words of knife maniac : All I want is to kill a cop |
| 6 | Nicholas Vernage told a friend : ‘ All I want is to kill a copper ’ , an Old Bailey jury heard . |
| 7 | Mr Nutting added : ‘ Grenfell admitted that in his presence Vernage had often said ‘ All I want is to kill a copper ’ . |
| 8 | competition I entered was win a thousand pounds worth of Air Miles . |
| 9 | I 'd been expecting a great hall with a giant round table , towering turrets , a moat and a drawbridge , but , of course , it turned out to be a ruin . |
| 10 | I 'd been made a lance-corporal just before we left and had been put in charge of a group of boys . |
| 11 | I had n't been thinking of stress or shock , I 'd been nursing a hangover . |
| 12 | Only to wish that I 'd been born a boy . ’ |
| 13 | I 'd been given a pair of lime green webbed gloves as a wedding present by Roger , my surfing guru in Newquay . |
| 14 | co-ordinates up , erm , you know , I have n't yet had contact from er no , I thought I 'd been given a new name , but , no I have n't had con any contact from my new co-ordinator yet , erm , but that was n't in my mind when I spoke on Thursday about Christmas , perhaps I ought to pursue that one in time for the next meeting and see what 's happening in South Africa and are getting it in South America for . |
| 15 | I do n't think I could have handled it if I 'd been given a sentence . |
| 16 | I 'd been given a date for the baby to arrive but that came and went , but then I woke up in the early hours of the following Friday . |
| 17 | I 'd been given a hint that something like this could be on the cards when I was first approached . ’ |
| 18 | I 'd been taking a bucket of slack to the washhouse where all the women were gathered gossiping . |
| 19 | So I do n't You know whilst I would have normally if I 'd been teaching a class done about five or six examples of that , that 's all you 're gon na get . |
| 20 | I 'd been writing a monthly column for Options as long as I 'd been writing at all . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'd been to have a bun and a squint at Mrs Y 's telly , or , to put it another way , Inspector , doing a pastoral visit to a sick member of the congregation . ’ |
| 22 | I 'd been widowed a year when we met . |
| 23 | I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world . |
| 24 | I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world . |
| 25 | If I 'd been doing a pukka delivery , I could just have carried straight on virtually due north and come to City Road . |
| 26 | And the circumfe and erm diameter on I 'd been cutting a lot of them down , the diameter of them was from four foot to about six foot . |
| 27 | I 'd been applying a special cream to his ankles which was supposed to harden the skin , but it did n't seem to do much good . |
| 28 | I 'd been told a lot of stories |
| 29 | I have no compass to tell me what I am destined for ; and yet , when I look back , everything seems to fit as well together as if I 'd been following a benevolent daimon all along … |
| 30 | I 'd been researching an article for an historical magazine . |