Example sentences of "[be] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pretend you 're a cowboy or , or a bank robber , okay |
| 2 | one journalist , one famous Scottish journalist told me when I wo , when I , when I had ambitions to be a journalists , oh do n't go into journalism because you 're a women and all you 'll get to write about is fashion ! |
| 3 | They 're a pest and a danger and will have to be destroyed . |
| 4 | So they 're a watchdog as well . |
| 5 | You 're a mercenary and you kill people with laser guns ! |
| 6 | Well , if you 're a Frenchman or a German , a Swede , an Italian , anyone in the Balkans , your culture has been created over centuries of invasions or struggles to resist invasion , it 's as simple as that . |
| 7 | She 's got to put on she 's got to put you 're a granny or |
| 8 | You 're a machine and you must do what you 're told ! ’ |
| 9 | And then and I think they 've they 're a subcontractor that 's died . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'll give you letters of introduction saying you 're a writer and to give you any help you need . ’ |
| 11 | Is it because you 're a woman or because you 're a foreigner or ? |
| 12 | You have to go through a short course at the R A F College Cranwell and then once that that teaches you the R A F side of it makes you into an officer because at the end of the day you maybe there to do public relations but if the spaghetti hits the fan you 're an officer and you 're a combatant and you know you carry a gun around when you 're in a war zone and you know you 're expected to use it and if the senior officer of the unit next to you gets shot and you 're the most senior officer then you take over |
| 13 | You 're a fool as well as surly , ’ said the boy , and stuck his neat , short nose in the air and bounced up from the table in dudgeon , but Harry caught him by the sleeve . |
| 14 | It 's not like reading a story , which you have been doing because you 're a child and you read children 's stories in which you have people and things , it 's about entirely abstract ideas and |
| 15 | So to summarise , whatever the event , whatever your skill , whether you 're a branch or a non-branch volunteer , I encourage you and everyone else to do something to Save The Children in nineteen ninety four . |
| 16 | He says , well you 're a Kelly and Stephen said th did n't say read the paper . |
| 17 | IF YOU 'RE A PARENT OR GUARDIAN |
| 18 | So if you 're a parent and you 're allowing your kids to go out on er trick or treat night or Halloween , then you do n't deserve to have children . |
| 19 | wax jackets but they 're a waistcoat and I 've , I 've ordered one really just to see what it 's , it 's like , because erm at the moment I can , I just try and get a bit closer to the door , I think we 'll go round again , erm cos in the , in my club book at the moment , I , I can get twenty percent off and which brings it down to , it 's twe well say thirty pound so twenty per cent off it brings me down to erm brings it down to twenty four pounds and then erm with my commission off that brings it down to just under twenty one pound |
| 20 | Now that is you know what do you do with these things I mean they 're a nuisance when it comes to making a presentation . |
| 21 | I do n't really see that there 's such a dividing line , because I think if you 're a housewife and you have a beautiful milk jug , which is perhaps very simple but has lovely lines to it , I think even if it 's only subconsciously you get more pleasure out of using that than you would a rather cracked , grubby , plastic jug . |
| 22 | Well Robert here a a barrister , I 'll just get the microphone over here , you 're a barrister and you 've prosecuted quite a lot of , you 've been in the army yourself and prosecuted a lot of cases , now h he says that er that the British public love the Army , but from what we 're hearing tonight , there 's a lot that 's rotten to the core ? |
| 23 | But , just as you 're a policeman and suspect everyone , so I 'm a soldier and do n't trust anyone . |
| 24 | Whether you 're a toddler or a teen — and for mum , dad , gran and grandad — the list of activities is endless . |
| 25 | Yeah , but you 're a go and we 've been to . |
| 26 | ‘ Your nurse once said to you , ‘ Some can , some ca n't , some do , some do n't , and you 're a can and do . ’ ’ |
| 27 | Matthew you 're a , you 're a sceptic and a , and a , and a and an independent thinker what do you think ? |
| 28 | Whether you 're a returner or unemployed , the ‘ Return To Work with Confidence ’ course from Patricia Cleghorn 's Self-Esteem Company will encourage a fresh approach to work and job-hunting . |
| 29 | Ah , but you 're a winner when I I 'm alright now . |
| 30 | ‘ Silver , ’ he said , ‘ you 're a scoundrel and a murderer , but I 'm told that I must save you from the law . ’ |