Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [pron] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | If what ( 102 ) entailed was : ( 104 ) You are Napoleon and you are socially superior to ( or socially distant from ) me , the speaker Then ( 105 ) would have to have one reading under which it meant ( 106 ) , which it clearly does not have : ( 105 ) Vous n'etes pas Napoleon ( 106 ) You are Napoleon , and you are not socially superior to ( or socially distant from ) me , the speaker Exactly the same , and additional , arguments can be shown to hold for the complex honorifics of " exotic " languages . |
| 2 | So he 's got the white shoes , the white pants , he sounds just like Dean Martin and Bing Crosby and he 's schmaltzing all the old tunes to death . |
| 3 | Her name was Nellie and she was in the same class as me at school and her family had not long moved into the neighbourhood . |
| 4 | Both the hon. Member for Wellingborough and I were impressed by the EC monitoring force that we met in Zagreb . |
| 5 | At , at the ca , at the gala at Wellingborough and it was their opening night , there was a band on called Me and Him |
| 6 | ’ Lewis sat opposite Hari and she was suddenly aware of how handsome he was . |
| 7 | Duncan , Bert and I were to secrete ourselves behind the curtains along with Aspel , who was to demonstrate the trick with the help of his three ‘ assistants ’ . |
| 8 | I 've finally forgiven Jeff and I 'm delighted at the engagement . ’ |
| 9 | Most Dutch filling stations already supply LPG and there is a considerable market for its use as an industrial heating fuel . |
| 10 | It was a warm , sunny june day in Fontanellato and I was riding out into the country on my bicycle when another cyclist gave me the news . |
| 11 | Chairman Robinson said : ‘ There is only one Andy Gregory and he was the most influential player in our years of success since 1987 . |
| 12 | First the Baa-Baas play Newport next Tuesday and there are seven Lions — Dods , Hall , Mullin , Guscott , Chalmers , Armstrong and Smith — in the side announced yesterday . |
| 13 | Acknowledge that today is Wednesday , but tell them that you bought it on Tuesday and it is bad and you want a replacement . |
| 14 | I went to see the W.C.W. Wrestlers at the Kings Hall on Tuesday and it was … well , it was an experience . |
| 15 | Er , I 've put a cloth on the top of it cos we 'd only put it in on the Tuesday and it was wet through on the top ! |
| 16 | He 'd say , ‘ Well , I 'm in a meeting on Tuesday and I 'm on MTV on Thursday . ’ |
| 17 | I got out of Bullwood Hall on a Tuesday and I was picked up on the Thursday , two days later , for robbery . |
| 18 | The mill was leased in 1350 to Roger le Walker and it is likely the mill had been partially converted for fulling . |
| 19 | The father was John Henry Walker and there were two daughters , Ada and Florence . |
| 20 | Then I met Cully Chatterton and he was very nice to me , so I felt at home here . |
| 21 | Oh the thing in front of me it 's Malcolm Adams and I 'm with the National Association of British Steel Pensions . |
| 22 | I told Big Ben all about the hijackers , Danny being in the refrigeration unit and how Jean and I were following them . |
| 23 | Yes , that 's him , that 's , that 's his name is Claude Jean and he 's a honky tonk man |
| 24 | Yes , that 's him , that 's , that 's his name is Claude Jean and he 's a honky tonk man |
| 25 | In the time of the Labour Government the Chief Secretary had been Joel Barnett and it was he who had forced Barbara Castle into her major and controversial changes . |
| 26 | She looks nowhere near as old as Rebecca and she 's a month older . |
| 27 | They telephoned me at the St. Ermin 's Hotel , where Mollie and I were staying while our house in Smith Square was under repair , to pledge their support . |
| 28 | If you have a lot of dead artists on you books you function quite differently — Leslie Waddington only needs to seel one Picasso and he 's paid the rent . |
| 29 | I 'm not Jezebel And I 'm not |
| 30 | Marie and me were on our honeymoon , staying with my brother in Darlington , when I got this letter from my mother saying we must come back immediately because they were starting the shoot . |