Example sentences of "and [pron] be this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Good afternoon , Katie , ’ she said to me but she frowned at Frankie and said , ‘ And who is this boy ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ And who is this person ? ’ she enquired innocently . |
| 3 | ‘ Sit down , ’ Lewis said , ‘ and who is this lad , then ? ’ |
| 4 | And who was this woman , this Dark Lady ? |
| 5 | I 'm warm and sleepy and there 's this girl . |
| 6 | I had this other dream once , of me , and there 's this girl I used to like , right , and , and the weird thing was that in , in our group of churches , you used to sort of like , got one guy who 's , more senior , and erm , he had this daughter and my mum sort of fancied me marrying this famous preacher 's daughter , you see , and I took her out a few times , erm |
| 7 | And so you 're , er , have actually , you 're at or whatever , erm , it would be nice to think , and I 'm not exactly sure , my geography 's not that good at that particular part , but you , you sort of tend to look at it , and say , right if he 's in and out , and it 's ten o'clock and somebody says they can see him at eleven , you know , and there 's this tendency , to say , well erm , O K. Yes ? |
| 8 | So I go back and I 'm standing in the doorway , and there 's this kid on the bed and he 's thrown up all over the cover and now he 's starting to shake . |
| 9 | You know the flake is a lot harder than it looks and there 's this traverse … ’ |
| 10 | That bastard on that bus , when I got off I heard this voice saying and I looked round and there 's this ragger sitting there |
| 11 | And there 's this smell . |
| 12 | It 's one of our busiest times , and there 's this NEC show in three weeks . ’ |
| 13 | There 's loads of rubbish around — cardboard boxes and paper and stuff , and there 's this man under one of the lights , blowing into a mouth organ thing . |
| 14 | At times the drums were missing us by inches , and there 's this man on board running up and down shouting , ‘ It 's your funeral ’ . |
| 15 | There 's this man I know and he 's that quick yeah , he 's he erm my uncle yeah , he 's at college and there 's this man at his college yeah and listen yeah because they 've got t v's and they 're allowed to stay up as long as they want . |
| 16 | And there 's this attitude that goes along , so some people will say ‘ Oh I 'll take stats ’ , y'know , ‘ regardless of whether I personally think [ they ] ought to be taken . ’ |
| 17 | Like you do in the supermarket sometimes , when you can sense something behind you and you turn and there 's this camera , mounted at the edge of a shelf , swivelling its one black eye this way and that , like some malevolent goblin at the door to a secret cave . |
| 18 | and there 's this sort of airport monorail . |
| 19 | Knock comes to the door and there 's this bobby . |
| 20 | Some people smile when they go past and there 's this woman with a couple of kids over the other side from me , but most people just walk past like they ai n't interested . |
| 21 | and there 's this woman called Lassie , and this , this other man was talking to er this other man and he goes why 'd you call that woman Lassie ? |
| 22 | And there 's this book . |
| 23 | And there 's this plane ! |
| 24 | and there 's this thing about I mean you know that there that we may be behaving , there may be erm ways that we behave that are n't actually functional th the , the society we 've got now might not actually be functional because of the technology we 've got |
| 25 | And all he 'd got ta do was just put like two different bins , sizes of turkeys , and they just pick them out and there 's this thing like a V shaped hook and they just sort of |
| 26 | Now it 's quite likely that next time I come we can spend quite a bit of time doing this same thing again yeah cos there 's a lot in it there 's angles using a protractor adding things up to check they come to the total that the angles come to three sixty and there 's this thing about fractions there 's cancelling fractions and then there 's working with quite big numbers three hundred and sixty what 's two fifteenths of three hundred and sixty mm that 's quite hard . |
| 27 | And there 's this thing scattered all over the place |
| 28 | Yes , we bought it , and there 's this thing that says Big Bess let's rip |
| 29 | ‘ And there 's this weight pushing down on my face , choking me , choking the breath out of me … |
| 30 | and there 's this guy sitting sitting beside him , you know sunbathing and stuff , and er he does n't know what to do |