Example sentences of "be [pron] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You know , Joe , you are my first reader ! |
| 2 | You are my last hope ! ! |
| 3 | You are my last hope … |
| 4 | It had been my first venture into the hotel business and probably my last — I take my hat off to anyone who makes it work . |
| 5 | That may have been my first mistake . |
| 6 | So this has been my first step towards designing something different . |
| 7 | It had been my thirtieth birthday in November . |
| 8 | Spanish was to have been my next language : my winter 's task . |
| 9 | ‘ To tell you the truth , I would n't mind if yesterday had been my last day . |
| 10 | Germany 's car makers are slashing costs , and components are their first target . |
| 11 | For most it would have been their first experience of the internationalism of the movement . |
| 12 | The squash racquets , the Pope 's pronouncements , whose fault it had been their first night together , an afternoon really , but not much good in either case , the squash racquets again , the money spent on Grace . |
| 13 | For both these men it had been their first time out of the house for three weeks . |
| 14 | For Dan Knight and the crew of Mary Alice , it had been their 23rd mission . |
| 15 | It had been her first time , she did n't love him , they did n't use any contraception and she definitely did n't expect to be pregnant as a result . |
| 16 | Sendei , despite his faults , had been her last link with a sane , reasonable universe . |
| 17 | It could have been her last name , or a state she like to exist in but I think it was a number involved . |
| 18 | Of all the people in the world to expose her seething mass of fears and insecurities to , Guy Sterne would have been her last choice … yet she 'd told him about Mortimer , she 'd carelessly made him a gift of her virginity , she 'd wildly announced she loved him , and now she was baring her soul over the painful anguish of her mother 's death … |
| 19 | ‘ You 're my last hope , C.W. ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Are you next door to me ? ’ asked the Canadian . |
| 21 | Take it in one night one day next week What are you next week ? |
| 22 | He says no-one seems to mind as it could be them next time and Norman can make his time up on route . |
| 23 | In the last match it was Gary Speed , and it could be me next time . ’ |
| 24 | Naturally , I felt her comfort should be my first consideration . |
| 25 | Until then their well-being must be my first concern . ’ |
| 26 | This was to be my first climb on ‘ real rock , ’ as I had only experienced exercises on short problems in an old gritstone quarry during the previous winter . |
| 27 | At that time the navigator and bombardier starting going on missions because evidently they were short so by the time the Gdynia mission came around the bombardier and the , and the er navigator had missions under their belt so this was to be my first mission . |
| 28 | My effective vote could be my first preference vote , in which case all my other preferences are null and void . |
| 29 | I have to say that the Pro GAP would n't be my first choice in any rack system because each time I 've used one I 've been unable to rid it of that ‘ overprocessed ’ synthetic edge . |
| 30 | Klemperer would still be my first choice for the Pastoral . |