Example sentences of "[pers pn] be some [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Well you 're some guard dog are n't you ? |
2 | Kandinskaya watched her as if she were some lab specimen but eight months of training had taught Jezrael techniques that smoothed her responses to a minimum . |
3 | No one wants to feel owned by another person , and perhaps what Matthew needs from you is some breathing space , some freedom , a demonstration of trust in him . ’ |
4 | Yes , she was some prize fool . |
5 | On a low table in front of her were some engineering trade magazines and a copy of the Financial Times . |
6 | The only thing I can put on him is some talcum powder . |
7 | But the poem progressed farther in the mind than on paper , and all that survives of it are some verse fragments describing the distant wail of swallows and seagulls , water dripping one Sunday from the miller 's wheel ( perhaps at Kilve ) , the snow blown curling from a wood ‘ like pillars of cottage smoke ’ , and a wild Quantock pony racing in the wind . |
8 | They built a house , the Villa Eugénie , which eventually grew into the present Hôtel du Palais , a vast building close to the lush sands of the Grande Plage ( formerly known as the Plage tea Fous , because only the reckless , if not the insane , were thought likely to risk swimming there ) , very monumental and with a tricolour flying above it , as if it were some government department rather than merely a hotel . |
9 | ‘ It 's some master plan , that I 'm certain of . |
10 | ‘ Some people tend to think it 's some faraway problem that will never come to anything , but it destroyed human decency before and it can again if we do n't stand up to it . |
11 | It 's some animal instinct , I suppose , like the fact that you like the way some people smell and you do n't like others . |
12 | ‘ It 's some stuff Mum used to get in the market , but this is the last bottle , ’ said Maureen . |
13 | Yeah , he would be able to find out what type of union this is , or whether it 's some establishment association , we try quite frankly , I , I , I think it is . |
14 | The task here is to make people feel that it is some way superior , " Nothing works faster than Anadin " , is probably one of the best examples . |
15 | To decorate a dish of smoked salmon , so beautiful in itself , with lettuce leaves , or to strew it with tufts of cress , is not to make that salmon which has cost 38s. a pound look as if it cost £3 , but to belittle it so that you begin to feel it is some bargain basement left-over which needs to be disguised . |
16 | ‘ I do not understand you , ’ he rasped , ‘ but coming from you I imagine it is some acid comment . |
17 | He 's some foreigner thing , but they were saying they do n't allow them to talk to the customers that 's it , you do n't talk false stop , no hows , whys or whatever , you do n't talk |
18 | I done a one the other day that was twenty five pence it was some charity thing . |
19 | It was some country mansion in Oxfordshire you know ? |