Example sentences of "[pers pn] be a [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I am a former management employee of Dorman Long 's Bridge and Constructional Works , Middlesbrough , who actually built this bridge and recall talking in the 1930s to men who had worked on it . |
| 4 | SIR — I am a former pupil of Summerhill School at Leiston , Suffolk ( television review , March 31 ) . |
| 5 | However , if I talk about Tyneside when I am a few miles away in Teesside or Wearside , I am in real trouble . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | She thought : I am a few walls ' , stairways ' , rooms ' distance from him . |
| 8 | What do you think I am a some kind of idiot ! |
| 9 | I 'm a few minutes |
| 10 | So that , I mean that 's I 'm a half day that day . |
| 11 | I 'm , I 'm a half day , I finish at twelve . |
| 12 | I was a little way ahead before they moved off . |
| 13 | ‘ I was a few pence in the red to a bank that makes millions of pounds in profit every year . |
| 14 | ‘ If I was a few years younger , I 'd be a hooker , ’ said Constance , stretching . |
| 15 | It would have been nice if it had been a decade to the day since the dog died that I exhumed its skull , but in fact I was a few months late . |
| 16 | Or if you 're a former fan , I 'll buy your stuff Both types contact me . |
| 17 | You could n't see them right if you were a few yards from them , but just the figures moving you know , and their arms going backwards and fore cleaning the windows . |
| 18 | Women her age usually give up sex — she 's a few months older than me , you know . |
| 19 | When she 's a few months older Thia will be allowed in the same field as the farm 's other miniature , Carlsberg , a stallion . |
| 20 | She is a former teacher who has lived on Teesside all her life . |
| 21 | She was a little way from Alexei , and when he saw her riding off the offworlder reined around after her . |
| 22 | She was a former council tenant who had already bought her council house . |
| 23 | She was a former chairman of the Labour party and she performed noble duty both to her party and to millions of people from the dependent territories . |
| 24 | His third was Mexican-born Marti Haro , recently the subject of a Sunday newspaper expose claiming that she was a former prostitute . |
| 25 | Actually she was a former girlfriend , and he had n't exactly visited her , because upon arriving he discovered she was living with an Algerian rug merchant — she had somehow neglected to mention this in her postcards — who had pulled out a scimitar and threatened to send the Swede home with his goolies in a sandwich bag if he did n't clear off instantly . |
| 26 | She was a former undergraduate of Newnham College , Cambridge . |
| 27 | She was a few strides away , I was taking a breath to shout a warning , when unexpectedly — by some wary instinct — she looked up , and halted . |
| 28 | She was a few years older , mature , a mother . |
| 29 | ‘ She has very little regard for other people 's property and other people 's lives now , which was n't how she was a few years ago . |
| 30 | ‘ We adopted her when she was a few years old but we had a difference of opinion and she left home , ’ said Mr Harrison , a policeman . |