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 ?
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