Example sentences of "[pron] be a [noun sg] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sydney , 41 , from Blandford Forum , Dorset , said : ‘ They found out I was a comedian while they checked my driving documents . |
| 2 | At that time , I mean , I have known when my , when I was a dredger and they used t we used to clean the bottom , I have known er mussels on the bottom , used to feed on , be on the side of the ship , good mussels , but of course there used to be cockles , winkles . |
| 3 | And that was the only time that I 've fired a rifle cos , well actually I went got , rose to a corporal I was a corporal when they finished and erm I was in er made cor lance corporal and then I was er with a heavy Vickers machine gun , that 's the one with the has water cooled casing on it the big heavy one you see , and I was with that , that team . |
| 4 | ‘ I have had four children myself and I was a smoker before they were born . |
| 5 | Which is a pity because they are |
| 6 | I was only a lad , I was er a messenger boy on the loading deck and I used to have to go down to at Beskett and fetch parts for the planes and er plates , aluminium plates , to be normalized which was a treatment when they put them into the vats and I had to fetch the films as well , from the house that used to be a warehouse for films over in er in by the beacon , great bar ! |
| 7 | I , I get the feeling that because they do n't really know especially if you 're caught pissing around in quad , yeah , and er it 's by a teacher that you do n't know , a ma or a master or something they do n't pay much attention to it because you 're a girl and they do n't know you and I get that feeling anyway , I feel slightly like we c could actually get away with more . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , Charity , your whole problem is that you 're accustomed to people bowing down before you because you 're a doctor and they assume you walk with the gods . |
| 9 | Which meant that er you could try and get away if you liked but you as soon as you mentioned you were a baker and they looked at your age you were . |
| 10 | ‘ She was a child when they went off , and then grew up quickly in New York . |
| 11 | Er and she said I 'll ring you ag I said oh dear someone now coming to the door , she said , never mind I 'll ring you on Saturday , so I said alright and er and she lives at Wyndham , Norfolk , my husband 's niece and erm , you see , and then there 's the other one and she said , auntie you 're always so cheerful , I said , well I try to be cheerful because like everybody else I get a little depressed sometimes because , you see , I have no sisters and brothers , I have three elderly cousins who live away and who I , who I see , one was here a fortnight ago er er er my cousin and his wife er , you see , it will be on a Wednesday , a fortnight today , no Thursday , yes , you see , a fortnight ago and they said , we 'll come again an we 've always bought you a bunch of daffodils so we shall come again when the daffodils are and er and they bring me over bits and pieces because er she was a cook and they bring me something nice to eat |
| 12 | This person does not want to be meddled or interfered with in this state ; everything is a burden and they do not want to be disturbed . |
| 13 | Every one 's a winner as they embark on a series of napalm nursery rhymes spiked with grinning guitar and sugar and spite lyrics . |
| 14 | Every one 's a winner as they embark on a series of napalm nursery rhymes spiked with grinning guitar and sugar and spite lyrics . |
| 15 | I know one was called Tom , that was a grey one and the other one was a bay and they was about fifteen hands , that 's what they stood . |
| 16 | Students use Form M39 to indicate whether they wish to be awarded a BA or BSc should there be a choice because they are taking two neutral fields or a combination of arts and science fields . |
| 17 | There were a lot and they included some identical to the set still bulging in his pocket . |
| 18 | Oh yes , oh yes each side and er there , some , a few came round erm where it used to be the old picture house , a few came around up as far as Rushbrooks and erm further up towards erm now then The Central , there 's a school that they used to call it The Central but erm |
| 19 | There 's a there 's a chance that they will actually refer you on . |
| 20 | you fill out a little sheet of paper with the , with the names like John A , John B or whatever , so that if there 's another tape and you 've marked John B and they missed a word , or what what the word was and they there 's a chance that they might use it again later on you see . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's not certain , but there 's a suggestion that they have stolen British army trucks and uniforms and , with forged documents , pass themselves off as official convoys . |
| 22 | should n't we use , try every effort to try and carry it off , perhaps that 's one that Jehovah 's looked at and said well there 's an area that they need to learn about , that need to understand a little more , they know nothing about that particular area , in the scriptures , now that 's a good one for them to have , we 'll make sure they get that , that way they 're going to learn , so if ever we always get the easy ones , the ones we know , the ones we 've done before , we think I can handle this , you never learn anything do we ? |
| 23 | ‘ Their motivation is suspect and there is a concern that they are trying to buy off nationalist community support and in particular support for Sinn Féin in the West of the city ’ . |
| 24 | Or there is a problem because they 're slightly high . |
| 25 | So far as the arguments about those who already hold racist views are concerned , there is a possibility that they will be stirred to action by what is said or written . |
| 26 | However , it is not possible to fully protect files under VMS , and so there is a possibility that they may become corrupt . |
| 27 | Ballyskeagh have been granted Monday and Friday nights and there is a possibility that they will apply for Wednesday later on . |
| 28 | As already explained , the tanks balance one another on the main part of the run , but there is a change when they approach the ends of the run . |
| 29 | There is a story that they bet him a substantial sum that he could not read a certain number of books of the Bible without talking . |
| 30 | There is a feeling that they need to develop educational approaches that are based on indigenous conceptions of social service rather than Western urban industrial models and that they should be seeking ways of maximizing the contribution of front-line personnel , either through the direct provision of training or by teaching their graduates how to train and make optimum use of front-line workers ( University Grants Commission , 1980 ; Siddiqui , 1984 ) . |