Example sentences of "[pers pn] be the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amongst them are the last great wild gardens of the earth still harbouring uncatalogued varieties of creatures and man . |
| 2 | I am the first living contact to consult , Coffin thought , lying back in his hard bed under Mrs Lorimer 's roof . |
| 3 | I do not suppose I am the first naive monolinguist who thought he could pick up the language on the street , somehow acquiring it passively just by basking in the babble of the market , like getting a tan . |
| 4 | I am the first human being he has seen since he was posted to this backwater . |
| 5 | I think I am the last British poop artist because the total effort of all groups now in 1990 is to be as international as possible … but I 'm not a part of it . |
| 6 | Lifting him up , the Earl replied ‘ No , son , but I am the next best thing . ’ |
| 7 | I 'm the second longest serving . |
| 8 | I 'm glad I 'm the last wan … ’ |
| 9 | ‘ And I 'm the next best thing ? ’ |
| 10 | If yours is the first winning entry out of the hat then we 'll be in touch right away . |
| 11 | Er no er I was the second eldest . |
| 12 | ‘ He told me they had auditioned a lot of people back home and that they had five names in America that they were auditioning , and I was the first that day . |
| 13 | I was the first British person most of them had met and they see me as a bridge to the outside world , ’ she said . |
| 14 | ‘ An American , Harry Hebner , was the first man to use it in major competition when he won a gold medal in the 1912 Olympics , and I was the first British title holder . |
| 15 | His was the first correct solution selected and he knew the Premier League teams who have not played in European competitions are Crystal Palace , Wimbledon , Oldham , Norwich , Sheffield United , Middlesbrough and Blackburn . |
| 16 | His was the first correct solution selected and he knew that Berlin ( 1916 ) , Tokyo then Helsinki ( 1940 ) and London ( 1944 ) were the VIth , XIIth and XIIIth Olympiads . |
| 17 | His was the first reported execution in several months for an offence related to the ‘ counter-revolutionary rebellion ’ . |
| 18 | she said you 've got the second biggest cock or you are the second biggest cock she 's ever seen ? |
| 19 | In his survey of London , published in 1889 , Charles Booth commented on the overlapping territory of the various visitors from churches , the Charity Organisation Society , and other charitable organisations in Deptford : ‘ we hear of one woman busy at the washtub calling out [ to a new visitor ] : ‘ you are the fifth this morning ’ ' . |
| 20 | If you 're the first correct entry out of the hat we 'll be straight on the phone to give you the good news and arrange the presentation . |
| 21 | Then all you have to do to win this exclusive guitar is to answer the following six questions and , if you 're the first correct entry out of the hat , this incredible instrument is yours . |
| 22 | ‘ You 're the first honest girl I 've met . |
| 23 | You 're the first non-Jewish girl I 've ever said more than ‘ Nice day ’ to . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh no , darling , you did n't think you were the first clever little bitch to have the idea ? |
| 25 | You were the first blind person to be employed in the County Council ? |
| 26 | I saw her and I , I be honest with you I hid , I be totally honest and I 'll tell her the same if I see her because I 've just found out then that they could n't do any more for me dad and I really did n't want to speak or see anybody and I sat in the canteen on my own , I just said to me mum , mum on the phone I said mum I need to do this on my own I said I 'm just gon na have a coffee in the cafeteria and I do n't know if you 've been in there but the cafeteria is all glass and she pulled up in a white van delivering something to the office , I thought oh no it 's Jenny she 's the last bleeding person I want there , I do n't mean that |
| 27 | The baby soon learns that her presence is necessary for the satisfaction of its needs and she is the first individual " other " whom the infant recognises . |
| 28 | Now 92 , she is the last surviving member of what came to be dubbed ‘ the Glasgow Girls ’ , the group who went through Glasgow School of Art during the early part of the century . |
| 29 | But sh she was the second best shooter there . |
| 30 | She was the first Siamese twin of her kind after an operation in March 1985 performed at Great Ormond Street Hospital by Prof Spitz . |