Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perchance he desires not to receive me — and 't is by his wish I am denied a sight of him . ’ |
| 2 | Mortal , my name is Miach , and I am accounted a healer . |
| 3 | I am allowed a Walkman actually . |
| 4 | I am allowed a say on this question of standing up at football matches because I first planted my feet on the terraces at Barnsley when I was five and spent the next 15 years or more rooted to the spot . |
| 5 | LADY DAVERS : Must I be made a witness to your follies , by heavens ? |
| 6 | ‘ If I 'm given a challenge I have to have a go at it , ’ he admits , reflecting on the guiding principles that have taken him to the top of two major industries . |
| 7 | WHITE-HOT FURY OF SNOW QUEEN I 'm branded a liar , says ‘ no sex ’ [ name given ] . |
| 8 | Now some , somebody famous once said erm , I 'm called a feminist because I say things that is , to distinguish myself from a doormat . |
| 9 | It 's the same old thing I 'm , I 'm what , I 'm called a coordinator , it 's all good saying we 're gon na put a mezzanine floor in one of those , you 've got to line the building out . |
| 10 | tonight she said I 'm called a Bogey , so he said |
| 11 | That does n't mean I necessarily disagree either , but if I 'm asked a question I give an answer . |
| 12 | And I 'm told a lot of people contacted the agency . |
| 13 | ‘ Basically I 'm paid a salary and given complete control over training his horses . |
| 14 | In 1968 my husband James Haynes-Dixon and I were offered a lease of Lamb House for seven years . |
| 15 | I was invited a year or so later to the Royal Garden Party held in honour of the Queen Mother 's eightieth birthday , so there I was off again to London with a film crew in attendance . |
| 16 | I was called a Scab . |
| 17 | In military terms , I was called a runner , and as I had no bicycle at that time , running was literally what I did ! |
| 18 | ‘ He 'd been called a wop and I was called a coon . |
| 19 | Yeah I was called a roamer find me . |
| 20 | In 1987 I was elected a Fellow of the British Academy |
| 21 | I was made a bit of a snob . |
| 22 | I sometimes forget that it is the day of the year when I was made a bishop . |
| 23 | ‘ I was made a guinea pig , ’ he says , ‘ and being a guinea pig can hurt like hell . ’ |
| 24 | I never fail to remember on the day of the year when I was made a priest . |
| 25 | The plane lifted off but the weather did not and I was denied a view of Vatnajökull and the central plateau . |
| 26 | At the start of the season I was sent a parcel of goodies , courtesy of Middy Sales Director David Middleton . |
| 27 | When the product finally went onto the market , as the Agenda , I was sent a sample which was unusable . |
| 28 | Erm I was sent a booklet from the D S S asking for various financial details , with the instructions that if I did n't complete the booklet and send it back to them to the D S S , my benefits would stop . |
| 29 | I was born a rebel raver |
| 30 | ‘ You will remember that although I was born a vicar 's daughter , I have seen quite a different level of life since then . |