Example sentences of "be the [adj] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am the only golden eagle you know now and you may think all are like me , and become trusting and believe they will help you . |
| 2 | I am the first human being he has seen since he was posted to this backwater . |
| 3 | The Lemonheads have been touring for about three months , first in America and now in Europe , and this has been the first real glitch they 've encountered . |
| 4 | By the week 's end the proctologist was saying that it had been the best goddamned vacation he had ever taken , and as we passed the bunkering moorings near McIllvanney 's yard I saw him take Ellen aside and I guessed he was offering her a job . |
| 5 | They could have been the same young Russians we had met 4,000 miles away in Fairbanks only the day before . |
| 6 | " It would have been the same any time we came , " said Fiver . |
| 7 | However , Dwyer was left fuming , saying : ‘ I just hope Neath are the only bag-snatching team we meet in Wales . |
| 8 | The Sons of Midnight are the only remaining group I know of , still linked to the original Hell Fire Club . |
| 9 | They may only be used by the Theogonist , and are the only magic cards he can use . |
| 10 | They are the only appreciating asset you have in business . |
| 11 | Shocked Dalglish admitted : ‘ Everton are the best footballing side we have faced all season . ’ |
| 12 | " Those are the first wild elephants I 've ever seen in my life , " he whispered reverently , and his grin of delight spread front ear to ear . |
| 13 | Here are the other two songs I ca n't play or I have n't heard . |
| 14 | Slid neatly back to make room for the empty folder are the two full ones I am also working on , labelled in the small neat letters characteristic of this grey pen and these two pink hands . |
| 15 | she said you 've got the second biggest cock or you are the second biggest cock she 's ever seen ? |
| 16 | Oh okay these are the Bare Naked Ladies you will love this . |
| 17 | This contact with parents has brought many benefits to the school ; not least are the many new games we have learned . |
| 18 | All I have to wear are the same old rags I 've had for years . |
| 19 | Those are the last reported positions we got from various units . |
| 20 | In a way they 're they 're the perfect Thatcherite entrepreneurs it 's a way out of working class life . ’ |
| 21 | Third ( to Piers ) , I think you 're the smuggest young layabout I 've met for years and you ( me ) are these your friends ? |
| 22 | I 'll tell you what , they 're the best damn students I 've ever had . |
| 23 | You 're the first non-Jewish girl I 've ever said more than ‘ Nice day ’ to . |
| 24 | ‘ You 're the first honest girl I 've met . |
| 25 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
| 26 | ‘ This must be the oddest rags-to-riches tale I 'm ever going to hear . ’ |
| 27 | Could it be the mysterious international assassin they call ‘ The Silver Fox ’ ? |
| 28 | The only difference between them and the psychotically ill seems to be the greater intellectual control they retain in managing the freely associated ideas which an equally weak filtering system allows into consciousness . |
| 29 | The seventeenth- and eighteenth-century writers do describe a number of fruit fools , fools made from gooseberries , raspberries , strawberries , redcurrants , apples , mulberries , apricots , even from fresh figs ; but few of these dishes turn out to be the simple cream-enriched purées we know today . |
| 30 | Nigel Benn 's next opponent , part of the Londoner 's lucrative five-fight deal with the American promoter Bob Arum , will be the highest ranked middleweight he has yet met . |