Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [be] a real [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've been a real sport , mister , standin' up for me like you did , and fetchin' that brute a lovely wallop . |
| 2 | ‘ You 've been a real help to me , Carrie . ’ |
| 3 | You 've been a real pal . " |
| 4 | Still , she thought , bracing her shoulders , if she had been a real mother she would have had to endure many such problems with a teenage daughter . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's easier to manage a team playing in defence because you can see the game developing , but it has been a real problem up front , especially with all the pushing and shoving . |
| 6 | A nicer and generally more caring bunch of people it would be hard to find , and to quote an old cliche in a genuine sense ‘ it has been a real pleasure talking to you ’ . |
| 7 | It has been a real pain . ’ |
| 8 | Dane Jacobsen was one of the best known and most accomplished actors of his generation , so it had been a real coup for the tiny television station to secure his services for a drama serial on the Vikings , to be shot in Cumbria . |
| 9 | What if it had been a real rapist ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Well , it 's been a real eye-opener , ’ said the Exec Director . |
| 11 | It 's been a real stinker of a day . ’ |
| 12 | It 's been a real success . ’ |
| 13 | But lately he 's been a real pain in the neck . |