Example sentences of "[be] a [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ People say that you 're a friend of the Opera ghost , Madame Giry , ’ Monsieur Armand began . |
| 2 | " You 're a member of the organization now — and we take care of our own . |
| 3 | Erm tt whether that 's appropriate , you know , I 'm thinking of it as a first appointment just to get a general picture whereas you might be coming back to stir his memory for referrals by saying er , you know , er you mentioned here you 're a member of the squash club , do you remember I said I 'd be looking for introductions , maybe we 'll learn whether at the beginning of the second appointment you jog the memory there er you know in other words what I 'm do doing is keeping that in my mind , that you are remembering the squash club or whatever club it may be and use that later , although I did n't er elaborate on it at that , that er because I think you can go off at a tangent |
| 4 | You 're a member of the radical party |
| 5 | I believe you 're a member of the Kuwaiti parliament — is that right ? |
| 6 | Er and in the South Midlands ' section , I think it is erm towards Coventry and Nuneaton , we have got erm I can even remember the name of the Guild it 's we 've got a lot of younger women in there and these are younger women that , it 's very , I 'm very pleased to see them and when you see them go to the rostrum you can , you know they really are , they seem as if they 're a revival of the old camp because we , we 've got to campaign you see and but you , you try , I mean I 'm getting beyond it really myself and yet you see , you try and whip up erm an aging movement it you , you want younger women you see . |
| 7 | Well they 're a bit over the , their stated time are n't they ? |
| 8 | You look as if you 're a bit under the weather , Eb — not feeling too grand , p'raps ? ’ |
| 9 | Yeah and we 've seen some different erm they had I think it was actually waiver paper as well when Murdoch bought it , and for a while he honoured the political content and then he decided he was gon na do major changes , and this may all sound familiar to you but erm the effect that that had I mean not only on the , on the , on the end up being this side , but also on erm the Mirror because it meant that Page Three Girls were in on the Daily Record in Scotland erm it was , it was quite profound I mean there 's a broader argument here as to whether you you should get pampered to those possible denominator to taste erm it 's interesting that the Daily Sport and the Sunday Sport which are two I do n't know if they have anything like it in Japan , but they 're a bit like the National Enquirer erm it 's all made up baseball there 's a sad proportion of erm journalist stories of fantasy land stuff erm along with erm photographic content and er copy content which probably |
| 10 | " They 're a branch of the Rhade tribe — but a bit ancient , would n't you say , for your youthful tastes ? |
| 11 | And if you 're a policeman on the beat , with an eye on promotion , what easier way to keep your arrest rate up than to go out and pull in some black kids off the street . |
| 12 | They 're a mile from the nearest road and accessible only by foot , unless of course you 're one of the thousands of seabirds wheeling and jostling for a place on the rocky ledges . |
| 13 | Blandford told … you 're a threat to the House of Lords |
| 14 | You 're a nympho on the quiet are n't you really ? |
| 15 | Now unless you 're a skinhead of the old school , or have been time-warped for twenty years , parkas are not exactly in when it comes to neat threads . |
| 16 | You 're a Councillor on the County . |
| 17 | Do n't they realize we 're a part of the same movement ? |
| 18 | These these are a measure are n't they they 're a measure of the quality of what we 're going to do over the next two days and therefore I will come back to these tomorrow afternoon I will check through them and if everybody can say yes yes I 'm satisfied with that then we 've achieved what we set out to achieve today . |
| 19 | ‘ Intriguing , I suppose , if you 're a connoisseur of the pattern effects of smoke and flame . |
| 20 | He says they 're a matter for the politicians . |
| 21 | Gloucesters , can I help you ? erm Monday through to Friday , nine to five Basically we 're a shop for the soldiers to buy erm clothing , any sort of items they need for everyday life in the army . |
| 22 | They 're a lot of the problems in tend to be directed towards or because of the flats . |
| 23 | You know they they 're a lot of the older men makes you wonder have they been sacked so they do n't have to pay them hand shakes at the end you know if they wanted to lay some people off . |
| 24 | Now erm in the main the most the people who go and talk , if they talk genuinely to their their other half or I always say partner instead of , nowadays that 's politically correct I think , erm then they so they 're they 're a lot of the times they 're talked out of it . |
| 25 | So , a correspondent hears gossip : ‘ The x have demanded bloodwealth from the government ’ — — ‘ Who or what are the x ? ’ — ‘ Oh , they 're a tribe in the area between Benghazi and Sirte . ’ |
| 26 | These women are trying to earn their living and especially if you 're a newcomer to the tour it 's hard work . |
| 27 | Suddenly they come on cos they do n't give as much notice , they 're a pain in the bum . |
| 28 | You 're a pain in the arse . |
| 29 | You 're a pain in the whistle ! |
| 30 | ‘ You 're a blister on the behind , Curtius , ’ Mrs ze Schluderpacheru shouted , ‘ leave him alone or you 're barred for life . ’ |