Example sentences of "[pron] be [noun prp] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The voice replies : ‘ I am Jesus the Nazarean , and you are persecuting me . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Hi , I 'm Clarence the Lion and that 's my number Why am I telling you ? |
| 3 | I 'm Jake the steg , diddle iddle iddle um — but I ai n't got legs ! ! ! |
| 4 | For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour , which is Christ the Lord . |
| 5 | For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour which is Christ the Lord . ’ |
| 6 | He speaks directly to us in the first person and he expresses something very like fear and even self-pity , the distress of the poet , seeing himself as a kind of natural victim , and it may be the distress of the puritan living on after the Restoration and afraid of the wild route , which is Charles the Second 's court , though I think we can be a little sceptical of this and we certainly do n't know with sufficiently accuracy when Paradise Lost was written . |
| 7 | And I say this to you : You are Peter the Rock ; and on this rock I will build my church , and the powers of death shall never conquer it . |
| 8 | ‘ You 're Bravd the Hublander , are n't you ? ’ |
| 9 | Like you think you 're John the Baptist because an angel pointed at you . ’ |
| 10 | After that , I could have told her that you were Jack the Ripper and she 'd have believed me . |
| 11 | ‘ Peter is the zoo-keeper ; she 's Rhoda the Rhino . ’ |
| 12 | She is Hathor the Cow , Sekmet the Lioness , Lakshme , Demeter , Shiva and Kali . |
| 13 | The stolid sexton , James Whiting , had to find a bit more space in her grave to accommodate a certain Mary Humphries ; we know her — she is Thomas the Calvinist 's daughter Mary , née Titford , who had married Stephen Humphries of Devizes in 1752 . |
| 14 | ‘ Who is Attila the Hen ? ’ |
| 15 | who was Jack The Ripper ? , he were n't was he ? |
| 16 | Now these are the kind of people we have to deal with and I know Duncan has a problem in USDAW there 's Gerry the negotiator for the London Region . |
| 17 | There 's Mumphkin the Leprechaun , Spazzle the Wizard and all the twitchy rabbits of Colostomy Castle ! ’ |
| 18 | There 's Mumphkin the Leprechaun , Spazzle the Wizard and all the twitchy rabbits of Colostomy Castle ! |
| 19 | Well there 's Diane the hairdresser 's wife whom I do n't see a great deal of but she lives near . |
| 20 | There 's Dennis the Menace upstairs |
| 21 | At Glenegedale there is Driom a mhuillinn — Ridge of the mill and to the north of Port Ellen is Cnoc na Cloiche-muilinn Millstone Hill where there are a number of unfinished mill stones cut out of the rocks . |
| 22 | there is Suzannah the whore in biblical legend and the prostitute who models as Suzannah , their stories parallel with that of Artemesia who because she was raped changes from virgin to whore all three were exploited and abused by men . |
| 23 | Tayvullin ( Tigh a Mhuilinn ) at Ardnave is a mill house and also , near Gruinart farm , there is Gleann a Mhuillinn the Glen of the mill . |
| 24 | Conservative Club , and my wife she wa we were both members there oh and there was a , I tell you another shop that probably I have n't mentioned , just before you get to the White Hart there was Thompsons the butcher 's shop with er they got three or four er daughters I remember . |
| 25 | There was Sally the Cat , an archetypal female , and the Ginger Cat , a tom with all the foibles of its gender . |
| 26 | Then they went back to camp and the only person there was Miguel the interpreter , who 'd been having a long conversation with one of the Indians and when he turned round all the other Indians had scarpered . |
| 27 | Then there was Tom the gardener . |
| 28 | Is it deliberately supposed to be that because it 's December the second today ? |
| 29 | ‘ Why , it 's Rincewind the wizard , is n't it ? ’ he said in tones of delight , meanwhile filing the wizard 's description of him in his memory for leisurely vengeance . |
| 30 | It 's Eric the striking ! |