Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , the ones who get me are the purposeful ones who are out to pull you down a peg or two when you were quite happy with the peg you were on . |
| 2 | All around the oval churchyard can be found the sunken tracks that were once the village streets and paths and raised above them are the grassy mounds that cover the foundations of houses and cottages long since gone . |
| 3 | The most powerful ‘ lessons in wizardry ’ are those taken for the learning of shamanic powers , and in the Piaroa theory of knowledge , men who do undergo them are the best hunters in Piaroaland , even if they rarely hunt ( Overing 1988 ) . |
| 4 | Gone too from both of them are the dark circles under the eyes , the complexions grey with tiredness and lined with worry . |
| 5 | Tristan has two near neighbours , both uninhabited , Nightingale and Inaccessible , and a third a couple of hundred kilometres further south , Gough Island ; all of them are the battered remains of extinct volcanoes . |
| 6 | All that 's left for them are the smallest triumphs , revenges or consolations — together with a fascination for the England of 15 or 20 years ago . |
| 7 | Below them are the four archdeacons ( Wiltshire , Sarum , Dorset and Sherborne ) who , Bishop John says , are ‘ key people in the modern church ’ . |
| 8 | The Kuwaiti population is about one point seven million erm about six to seven hundred thousand of them are the Kuwaiti nationals . |
| 9 | Suspensions and the risk of them are the common denominators of today 's European proceedings . |
| 10 | Had I been a few feet nearer the bomb I should have been blown to pieces — had I been a few feet further away I should have been cut to pieces by shrapnel . |
| 11 | Had I been a few feet nearer the bomb I should have been blown to pieces — had I been a few feet further away I should have been cut to pieces by shrapnel . |
| 12 | I am a thousand winds that blow I am the diamond glint on snow . |
| 13 | I am a 13 years old Andre Agassi fanatic who is very satisfied with the newsletters , and great photos . |
| 14 | However , if I talk about Tyneside when I am a few miles away in Teesside or Wearside , I am in real trouble . |
| 15 | ‘ I feel staggered at being chosen as a winner , and it has made me really thrilled , even though I am a few years older than the others , ’ he said . |
| 16 | She thought : I am a few walls ' , stairways ' , rooms ' distance from him . |
| 17 | I am a lesbian women of colour whose children eat regularly because I work in a university . |
| 18 | When you awaken in the morning hush I am the uplifting rush Of quiet birds encircled flight I am the soft stars that shine at night . |
| 19 | I am the Special Projects Officer . |
| 20 | This training covers independence , consent , confidentiality , and inhuman treatment , and the importance of total independence and objectivity is accepted and encouraged by the Greater Manchester Police Force , for whom I am the senior police surgeon . |
| 21 | I 'm a few minutes |
| 22 | I 'm a mad antiques fan . |
| 23 | As I , as I said earlier the new boy , the rather elderly new boy but I can assure the Professor if I were a hundred years old I 'd still be younger than 'im . |
| 24 | A bookmark showed the page : ‘ J'ai plus de souvenirs que si j'avais mille ans ’ — ‘ I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old . ’ |
| 25 | Gwenellen and I were the only members of our set on days . |
| 26 | In fact , Alan and I were the only ones to find the old master and pupil just what the doctor ordered . |
| 27 | So I reached Lochinver in style , had time to look around , and mounted the bus outside the post office : the morning 's collection of mail and I were the only passengers . |
| 28 | In the spring of 1520 Benjamin Daunbey and I were the proud occupants of a large manor house on the outskirts of Ipswich . |
| 29 | ‘ Sorry , Candy , I was a million miles away . ’ |
| 30 | And I was a young men in my prime ! |