Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] [be] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If the chairman keeps me , it 's not because he thinks I 'm a good chap or the world 's a nicer place when I 'm here . |
| 2 | ‘ Jennifer thinks I 'm a real hero , ’ said Sly . |
| 3 | I get the impression he thinks I 'm a harmless crank . |
| 4 | She thinks I 'm a wicked woman . |
| 5 | He is a bit younger , of course , and probably thinks I 'm an old fuddy-duddy , as well as avuncular ( as he insists on reminding the viewers most evenings ) . |
| 6 | Afterwards Fogarty admitted : ‘ I thought a North-West win would never come for me , but now that it has I 'm a happy man . ’ |
| 7 | Amongst your past lives you were a High Priestess of Merlin , and you have the power of all magicians . |
| 8 | " Ah , but mufundis you are a real father to these girls , " declared one elderly parent whose daughter had stepped out of line . |
| 9 | Now what essentially , what you 're doing , is that you 're writing an essay in very , very condensed form , so it 's just , I mean you still , still must have the same recipe in there when you write a short answer , right , but you just have to be very , very brief , so you know , para paragraph on definition , you know , paragraph of examples , right , erm , paragraph on some sort of explanation or erm , how it 's , how it 's measured erm , has it been a contentious issue erm , what are the problems with this er , with this concept erm , right , you 've got to get those sort of things in there , like you would in an essay , if you were asked to write an essay on reciprocal dumping you 'd , you 'd have all those things in there , right , but you only need to write a sentence , a sentence about them . |
| 10 | Of those , of those thirty nine has a , has it been a good experience or not ? |
| 11 | Has it been a pleasant experience ? |
| 12 | For none of the above has it been a lonely battle . |
| 13 | Has it been an interesting experience then for you all seeing artists so close and at work ? |
| 14 | John Parke writes It was a sad day when the news came some two years ago that Ann Hoare was suffering from cancer and that she had taken early retirement from her post as assistant manager of Exeter University Bookshop , where she had been on the staff since it opened . |
| 15 | It probably illustrates it 's a lethal cocktail of lorries and cars . |
| 16 | My wife says I 'm a bad lover . |
| 17 | ‘ Ga says I 'm a little tragedy queen . ’ |
| 18 | Kevin Bird says she 's a brave girl — she 's put up with mortar fire , a tuma and now looks like having open heart surgery . |
| 19 | He says she 's an exceptional player so an exception should be made . |
| 20 | ‘ The newspaper says you are a British soldier . |
| 21 | He says you do n't belong in this country , he says you 're a bloody Chinese , get back to bloody your own country , you do n't tell me what to do in my own bloody country and all this lot . |
| 22 | ‘ Mr Duncan says you 're a good gardener . |
| 23 | I thought I had that in my introductory letter , the one that says we 're a small company making recordings , we 're currently collecting recordings of erm sort of English as used in everyday situations and we would like to record on your premises if we may . |
| 24 | He says they 're a real pushover . |
| 25 | The company which makes them says they 're an effective way of getting the message across . |
| 26 | Whenever this happens it is a sad waste of the stimulus which projects can engender . |
| 27 | The publican he robbed in Wales says he 's a dangerous fugitive : |
| 28 | I think if you went and saw our own doctors a lot of our fears would be allayed because most of the young doctors would n't , would recommend to you , my own doctor asked me all the questions and different things and then he says he 's a young doctor , he says if I were a women and if I 'd answered all the questions as you did , I would go on H R T. |
| 29 | ‘ Your zeide says he 's a big man in the Jewish National Fund — that Karlinsky . |
| 30 | He always says he 's a busy man , unable to predict his schedule , but really it 's all part of the game . ’ |