Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] a [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other manufacturers are trying to do the same but I think some of them are a bit behind Rover and they 've got to catch up . |
| 2 | She said , I mean , she says I 'm not prejudiced here , and she says there 's obvious exceptions and they 're not bad but the majority of them are a waste of time ! |
| 3 | Beneath them are a group of children with an average age of 10 . |
| 4 | ‘ One of the reasons for my downfall is that I am a rep for Taunton Cider , and one of the first things Yvonne told me was to keep off alcohol . ’ |
| 5 | As you know , I am a tutor for Admissions of an Oxford College and part of the task is to visit schools . |
| 6 | I am a prisoner of conscience , I am named by Amnesty . ’ |
| 7 | I am a man of peace . |
| 8 | ‘ I am a man of honour as well as a royal emissary . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I am a man of honour , Signor . |
| 10 | ‘ I am a man of science , as you know . |
| 11 | ‘ I am a man of action , ’ he confessed drily . |
| 12 | I can not agree with the hon. Gentleman 's choice of best cricketer in the world , because I am a Glamorgan supporter , or with his preference for league rather than union rugby , because I am a Welshman by background . |
| 13 | My knowledge of programming is limited to BBC Basic — I am a phonetician by training , but I learnt the basics of programming on a staff development course and then taught myself , using the Manual and advice from staff in the IT centre . |
| 14 | ‘ I am a fitter by trade so between us we are quite handy . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I am a Member of Parliament , ’ said Nicholas , flushing even more furiously and unable to repress this dangerous admission . |
| 16 | I am a member of Parliament 's delegation to the Council of Europe . |
| 17 | A Mr Smith of Manchester , writing on notepaper emblazoned with an eagle and the legend , ‘ TALON ’ said , ‘ I am a member of Mensa , ’ before adding , sagely , ‘ Your company name looks familiar . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Perchance I am a princess in disguise . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I am a writer of sex novels . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I am a friend of Claudia . |
| 21 | Yet I must still think it my duty , without reconsidering whether or not it be worthwhile , to continue this plain record of what ( I know ) need not have been plain but for the accident that I am a niggler without impulse , not an imaginative artist . |
| 22 | I am a cynic by nature . |
| 23 | In 1988I returned to private practice where I am a consultant with Clyde & Co. , City Solicitors ’ . |
| 24 | He still had I am a Fugitive in mind and he recalled how in that ‘ job ’ ( in itself a revealing word ) ‘ every man and woman within a hundred yards of camera range is acting his head off , figuring that he is a Clark Gable , or a Garbo ! ’ |
| 25 | I am a catalyst for change . |
| 26 | Probably not — I am a creature of habit . |
| 27 | I am a woman , I am a mother of sons , I am a philosopher . |
| 28 | I am a follower of Lorca myself . |
| 29 | But I am a match for Kenamun , and you are forgetting our mutual friend . ’ |
| 30 | I am a guest at Westfield Manor , just outside Aldeburgh . |