Example sentences of "be [adv] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are effectively their warehouse in this country . |
| 2 | That is how it has been in the past , we have never been friends , and perhaps it has been altogether my fault . |
| 3 | but , then the next morning of course when Wendy got home she 'd been down my nephew 's looking after the kids for them and erm , and said we 've come to arrest you , and no , oh Rachael said oh mum there 's a police car pulled up outside , so she said , oh my god do n't tell me they 're wrong and it is Tracey , cos Tracey 's left home , she 's gone to live with her friend and erm , anyway , when Wendy got to the stairs she could n't go in , she could n't go any further and she said erm , when , when the policeman said Mrs I 've come to arrest you , she just about said Christ she said what have I done ? |
| 4 | Why is she the Crown Princess , while I am only her Captain ? ’ |
| 5 | Silvester Horne , in his popular survey of nineteenth-century Nonconformity , admitted , ‘ The easiest accusation to sustain against Nonconformity has been hitherto its tendency to disintegration and division ’ . |
| 6 | I am merely your psychiatrist , señorita . ’ |
| 7 | It would have been just her luck if the damned thing had broken down en route , leaving her at the mercy of his unexpected return . |
| 8 | Dearest , I know that when I am away my darling goes out with others . |
| 9 | ‘ Paul , I am not your wife yet ; it is all pretence , until something can be arranged . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Now you know … you must know , or you would not have spoken to him so , the reason I am not your wife … and can never be so , Benedict . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ But I am not your daughter . |
| 12 | ‘ I am not your daughter , ’ she replied flatly . |
| 13 | ‘ I am not your lady wife , my lord , ’ she pointed out as coolly as possible . |
| 14 | You are not my friend and I am not your friend , but I owe you something . ’ |
| 15 | I think you need reminding that I am not your property ; never have been and never shall be ; and that you have no right at all to touch me if I do n't wish it , and none whatsoever to hurt me . |
| 16 | ‘ I am not your sweetheart ; I never was ! ’ she informed him , through clenched teeth . |
| 17 | I am not your mother . |
| 18 | ‘ My lord , I know better than any that I am not his match , ’ said Harry , stung and colouring vividly . |
| 19 | ‘ I am not his father ’ — 1986 , the Alps — Hinault torments LeMond |
| 20 | ‘ I am not his father ’ , said Hinault , when questioned about his motives . |
| 21 | ‘ But I am not his equal . |
| 22 | Intellectually he had accepted that the marriage had been a mistake , that it had been largely his mistake . |
| 23 | ‘ When I 've been away my wife has posted it to me . |
| 24 | Speed sports are not their favourite but swimming is ideal . |
| 25 | The district which was due to take over the funding is now claiming that some of the people who are now living in the special units attached to old people 's homes are not their responsibility They did not originally come from their districts and so they are refusing to pay some of the finance over . |
| 26 | But you are not their enemy . |
| 27 | What changes with the appearance of the vertebrates are not its building blocks or basic sources of energy utilization and transmission , but the organizing principles of the nervous system as a whole — a system that now contains the fully fledged learning and memory capacities that are the properties of all mammals , including , in their greatly expanded forms , primates , amongst them of course humans . |
| 28 | It is not a mere means to X + Y , since it is a part of it , but still the 90 degrees of value are not its value . |
| 29 | ‘ But you are not His Excellency 's sort at all , ’ she said seriously . |
| 30 | The Greek and Roman ruins , many from BC , are not his mark either . |