Example sentences of "be [art] [noun sg] or [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had it just been a dream or had I really shrunk ? |
| 2 | ‘ I would never have been a dancer or believed I could do anything if it had not been for him , ’ said Crawford . |
| 3 | It can be a product or service you 've bought in , not necessarily a product or service that you are actually producing or generating yourselves . |
| 4 | Another factor to consider is the style or effect you want to create . |
| 5 | The connections between gender and class were apparent enough in the early modern period , and if the transvestite was a pervert or invert it was precisely in the pre-sexological senses of these ideas ; whether actually or only in the paranoid imagination of the dominant , she was regarded as upsetting the entire social domain , even when her sexual ‘ orientation ’ was not the issue . |
| 6 | Then , opening them again , she resumed her earlier apologetic furtiveness and , like a nocturnal animal twitching before a predator , begged her sister not to laugh , not to make fun of her , not to comment straight away or say she was an idiot or slap her down , but please , please , to let her have her dream about him just for a night . |