Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] be [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I mean it was it that we were taken to first , and I mean thee was a lot of people on it and I mean it had obviously saved a lot of lives . |
| 2 | You mean I am a monster . |
| 3 | I , I mean I was a bit disappointed yesterday cos it was a good do |
| 4 | Erm if you just liken it , I mean I was a beat officer here for eight years and the sorts of things that you 'd come on duty erm to see , are you may , you might get the nutty woman , who who er , you reoccur and you have to go and see her and you ge , erm , but all the shift members can then pass that to the beat officer . |
| 5 | I mean I 'm no historian , you 'd have to check up on this with my hubby , but as far as I know the Reformation started up North in Europe a guid lang mile away from Rome and the Pope and that , up in the Region of what we now know as Holland , and Germany and Alsace Lorraine . |
| 6 | ‘ No , sir , I mean yes , sir , I mean I 'm an actor , sir . ’ |
| 7 | Midnight 's head drooped as if the last of his energy had deserted him , and when he spoke his voice was muffled : ‘ You forget I am a slave . |
| 8 | ‘ I mean , I realise I 'm the baby of the family , and a mere female — ’ the latter drew a bleak smile from her father , acknowledging a point of contention between them spanning several years ‘ — but I do n't see how just a fire can mean the end of everything ! |
| 9 | ‘ You say I am a murderer , ’ the monster said , ‘ but you want to kill your own creature . |
| 10 | I know they say I am a celebrity , but I take it all with a pinch of salt . |
| 11 | Er furthermore er so the number upon whom we can draw is , is really minimal , and we do depend heavily on the help of the professional theologians , though we 're all theologians you know I , I subscribe to the idea that we 're all theologians , I wo n't listen to these people who say I 'm no theologian . |
| 12 | And you ca n't say that a woman on her own , going out to work , with no kids , just doing for herself , is a housewife like say I 'm a housewife . |
| 13 | Go on say I 'm a Swede ! |
| 14 | it 's easy , you just say I 'm the Government , give me your money , |
| 15 | Some people say I was a fool and could have made a fortune . |
| 16 | In our society we would normally not interpret a phrase like that wrongly , because everyday usage confirms that when we say someone is an ass we mean they have been rather stupid . |
| 17 | I did n't experience sexism 'til I was an adult . ’ |
| 18 | say she 's a bit depressed and say |
| 19 | There 'll be months of physiotherapy but medical staff say she 's a fighter … |
| 20 | They say she 's a tartar , but I wo n't mind that . |
| 21 | Sometimes the women say she is a saint , but that is only because she has kept me here , and they do not like her . |
| 22 | He accuses her of being a stooge of the EGP , the Guerrilla Army of the Poor ; he say she is a front for this ‘ hard-line rebel group ’ which is ‘ bent on achieving communist revolution by force of arms ’ . |
| 23 | The Bulgarians sombrely suggest that she is a dead mother looking for her own baby , while the Spanish say she is the GHOST of an aunt or grandmother , looking to make a gift to her descendants . |
| 24 | She took her Great Dane puppy for a walk for the first time , when I say she was a puppy , she was huge . |
| 25 | ‘ People say she was a junkie but how do they know that ? |
| 26 | ‘ Say you 're a tailor , ’ whispered Avram , and they were the last words any member of his family was ever able to speak to him . |
| 27 | ‘ You say you 're a friend of Mike 's . |
| 28 | Of the forty who said yes , what do you mean by that when you say you 're a feminist ? |
| 29 | ‘ When you say you 're a singer , people do n't go , ‘ Well , what do you really do ? |
| 30 | ‘ The dole do n't even give you payments any more if you say you 're a musician , ’ Carl says , ‘ 'cos they 've said they 're not gon na fund the arts any more anyway . |