Example sentences of "[pers pn] be a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People like me are a menace to the AA men , calling them out on Sunday afternoon to rebuild engines that we idly began to dismantle on Sunday morning . |
| 2 | Because these criteria it seems to me are a means to an end , for us to decide upon an appropriate general location . |
| 3 | Among them are a portrait of the beauteous Dorelia with whom she took a passionate walking trip across France and who later lived in a ménage à trois with her brother and his wife . |
| 4 | The other manufacturers are trying to do the same but I think some of them are a bit behind Rover and they 've got to catch up . |
| 5 | But they are wage labour , and those performing them are a part of the working class . |
| 6 | She said , I mean , she says I 'm not prejudiced here , and she says there 's obvious exceptions and they 're not bad but the majority of them are a waste of time ! |
| 7 | Beneath them are a group of children with an average age of 10 . |
| 8 | Had I been a father in my early twenties I would have been dreadful because there were so many things I still wanted to do . ’ |
| 9 | I am a crocodile in the thick river of his feeling tone . |
| 10 | ‘ I am a servant of the Prime Minister . |
| 11 | Editor , — I am a patient in a London teaching hospital where medical staff have been told not to accept any extracontractual referrals until they have received confirmation that the patient 's local health authority will fund that patient . |
| 12 | Meanwhile I keep myself sober , chaste and fully fit : I am a credit to the service , Nevton , a credit to the sweet harsh disciplines of our beloved country . |
| 13 | ‘ One of the reasons for my downfall is that I am a rep for Taunton Cider , and one of the first things Yvonne told me was to keep off alcohol . ’ |
| 14 | As you know , I am a tutor for Admissions of an Oxford College and part of the task is to visit schools . |
| 15 | I am a prisoner of conscience , I am named by Amnesty . ’ |
| 16 | In you ; I am a part of you . |
| 17 | There was no escape : ‘ I am a part of all that I have met . ’ |
| 18 | And whatever I try to tell them , they seem convinced I am a part of it . |
| 19 | It was not surprising that , on his retirement in January 1936 , he was quoted as saying : ‘ A man can not serve two masters , I am a man without a hobby ’ . |
| 20 | Several times Paul Guillaume came back to the house to have his portrait painted in a discreet , dark suit , starched collar and tie , jaunty trilby hat , a gloved hand languidly holding a cigarette and thinly parted lips which seem to be saying ‘ I am a man of exquisite taste ’ . |
| 21 | But Tukaram said , ‘ I am a man of low degree ; I beg you will show me your kindness and favour . ’ |
| 22 | I am a man of peace . |
| 23 | He confessed his limitations , saying once : " I am a man of limited talent from a small town — I do n't seem to grasp that I am President . " |
| 24 | " I am a man of the world Auguste , mon ami . |
| 25 | ‘ I am a man of action , ’ he confessed drily . |
| 26 | ‘ I am a man of science , as you know . |
| 27 | ‘ I am a man of honour as well as a royal emissary . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I am a man of honour , Signor . |
| 29 | ‘ I am a man of my word . |
| 30 | ‘ As you know , I am a man of few words . |