Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [be] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when the person who owed them money was the heir to the throne they still deserved to be treated justly , perhaps even more so . |
| 2 | Oh , Benedict , I have learned from Rose about your mother , and I see that my hair is the key , but — ’ |
| 3 | My classwork was very untidy , and my handwriting was the despair of my teachers . |
| 4 | What went wrong in my case was the timing . |
| 5 | My favourite is the DeskJet 550C , as I need to use colour . |
| 6 | Of all the commonly-available gouramis my favourite is the Honey Gourami . |
| 7 | There are other beautiful cranes in the park — my favourite is the demoiselle , a slender grey bird with delightful black plumes and ear-tufts . |
| 8 | Of the three flea-pits the town boasted my favourite was the pavilion , at the Coatham end of the prom . |
| 9 | There were some interesting compromises … my favourite was the lady with the Rottweiler . |
| 10 | My mentor is the earth mother and my conscience is ruled by karma . ’ |
| 11 | My mum 's the sort of person who 'll just argue with anything , if she thinks she 'll argue with anybody , or anything if she thinks that she 's being swindled , so like , she even went to the extent of having , they , we had an extension built , right , and she , we had it , only fair 's fair , this one particular suite , we had erm , and they , they had this absolutely massive bathroom built , okay not specifically to have a nicer bathroom , but to have a very big room and erm , so they had two sinks , this sounds real extravagant , erm , |
| 12 | My sister was the person who 'd been the trouble , she had boyfriends in infant school , I was the girl who always beat up the boys in infant school ! |
| 13 | At my Mum-in-law 's the sink was in the corner , not under the window where it is now … |
| 14 | But the only query that Trevor 's put in my mind is the fact that he 's saying that the cost is gon na be extortionate . |
| 15 | But as the Air New Zealand 747–400 that brought me back home took off from Auckland International what came into my mind were the lines at the head of this article . |
| 16 | What really stands out in my mind was the homage that was instantly paid to a good poem and the individual who had written it . ’ |
| 17 | At the back of my mind was the feeling that I would bump into you in the street . |
| 18 | It 's just that she has this idée fixe that my agent is the man for me . |
| 19 | I suppose , Helen thought , that the interesting thing about my condition is the loss of self-control . |
| 20 | My granddad was the originator of the |
| 21 | Michael Murphy , chief executive of the Western Education Board , the largest in the province , said today : ‘ We are having to replace more and more governors , and my fear is the situation will get worse . |
| 22 | ‘ One reason I continued with my research was the belief that it would help to prevent torture . |
| 23 | Tell My Horse was the result of one of these trips , written in 1936 as a study of voodoo which , like the ‘ hoodoo ’ of the Southern US , she saw as the African spiritual source underlying the fervour of black Christianity . |
| 24 | My error was the fault of movie-makers and other horror merchants . |
| 25 | ‘ You said my work is the centre of my life . |
| 26 | ‘ All my work is the evidence of a life , and not the life itself . ’ |
| 27 | Of course , it could be argued that my work is the expression of a personal experience — in this instance , the experience of premature birth . |
| 28 | The main flaw with the system of categorisation of my work was the omission of the teaching component of the majority of these activities . |
| 29 | ‘ My boss is the head of K8 , the MI5 sub section that looks into suspicious resignations and so on . |
| 30 | I am lonely yes , but my loneliness is the price I pay in order that the people of the World may look ahead to peace and freedom and to a decent standard of living for their children . ’ |