Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ HE has tasted all the bread in the sandwiches and approved the menu although he ca n't try all the fillings because some of them are meat and he is vegetarian ’ — Laurence Myers on the opening of Gary Glitter 's sandwich bar . |
| 2 | All of them are shit and rubbish recording . |
| 3 | The streets round about are a meat market ; couples rent by the half-hour — I do n't think many of them are man and wife . ’ |
| 4 | Although the registered disabled comprise a substantial proportion — some 12 per cent — of the population of Britain , only two to three per cent of them are chairbound and only four per cent of the registered blind have a guide dog . |
| 5 | Among them are war and nuclear armament , attitudes towards the ‘ Third World ’ , and the role of the Church in the next millennium |
| 6 | I woke to a shout : ‘ I am Alpha and Omega . ’ |
| 7 | I also speak on behalf of the group New Consensus , of which I am chairman and which is both all-party and none . |
| 8 | I can tell them they will never , ever return to Barnet while I am chairman if they are captured . ’ |
| 9 | We have come through it to the extent that I am north and west Belfast Branch Secretary . |
| 10 | I 'm the woman too : in this dream I am participant as well as onlooker . |
| 11 | ‘ I am strength and power and light and speed , Taliesin , ’ he said , ‘ but even I can not protect you from the Time Fire . |
| 12 | The normal association of prose with the lower elements — no one could say in prose ‘ I am fre and air ; my other elements/I give to baser life ’ ( Antony and Cleopatra , V.ii.289f. ) — is revealed most amusingly in the case of Bottom . |
| 13 | ‘ Shall I be mother and pour or d' you want me to disappear while you two talk Jockey Club business . ’ |
| 14 | I 'm play and it 's about Scrooge . |
| 15 | Well I do n't , I 'm bread and I might some of it on the top . |
| 16 | Yes , supposing I 'm mutant and I have , I have a mutation which promotes my reproductive success one hundred percent . |
| 17 | And he er and he was really delighted of course , so he said , Well I 'm holiday and I 'll come round with the caravan , so I had my holiday which did n't make much difference because there was had to you know we were n't working really , and I went round with him for this week , all round and the villages everywhere . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm nob but an old fool , lass . |
| 19 | I 'm cuckoo if I do that ! |
| 20 | Everything looks so high from here , and I 'm all squashed and thin like I 'm paper and people can walk over me and it would n't hurt and they would n't know I was there . |
| 21 | PLEASE TELL Grub Smith ( ‘ Hi , I 'm Grub and I 'm an Alcoholic ’ , February ) that we 've got much better drinking stories north of Hadrian 's Wall . |
| 22 | I do n't know whether I 'm virtue or the reward , but never mind ! |
| 23 | No not really , no I , I 'm hale and hearty erm there is no history of illness in my family , my father , my grandfather lived till he was about eighty four I 've never really given it much thought . |
| 24 | And I 'm flesh and blood , at least . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm game if you are . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm game if you are . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Sure , I 'm game if you are ! ’ |
| 28 | I 'm game if you are . |
| 29 | I said you and I were man and wife , and to lose me would break or damage your bond with the King . |
| 30 | One of my best-known remarks was when I was Chancellor and Geoffrey Howe was my opponent , and he made a rather damaging criticism of what I was doing and I did n't want to spend time on that . |