Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [noun] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm wurkin hard and lurning to be a sailor , so you can be prowd of me . |
| 2 | Two weeks in a semi-finished house , with a man who does n't give a damn about appearances have worked their magic , and I do n't know if I 'm Cinderella now or the pumpkin , but I 'm certainly not the obnoxious girl who arrived here a fortnight ago . |
| 3 | I 'm glad I 'm Moderator now and no longer a convenor . |
| 4 | B : 'Cos I 'm Yorkshire through and through . |
| 5 | Oh it 's just the , sorry I was miles away when you it 's a half yearly Council meeting in there . |
| 6 | You are lovers now and there is a good chance you were lovers before Seville — ’ |
| 7 | You 're class through and through . |
| 8 | Erm , we , we , we really er , like to be in a position of control in any of the acquisitions er , that we make er , where we are associates rather than , than having a hundred percent or a least erm , over fifty . |
| 9 | I said to him : ‘ Look here , we 're enemies now and I 'll fight you with all I 've got . |
| 10 | Deny it as much as you like , but we 're lovers now and shall continue to be so . ’ |
| 11 | They are concepts rather than actual objects . |
| 12 | If a large sum of Eurodollars is borrowed and then used in a transaction , the recipient of the dollars does not see that they are Eurodollars rather than ‘ domestic ’ US$ . |
| 13 | This issue too concerns third parties , although this time they are creditors rather than buyers . |
| 14 | They are men rather than women , they are more highly qualified , their assignments are longer and , most significantly , they are often very explicitly self-employed , operating as one-man limited companies . |
| 15 | To a great degree they are places apart and the separateness is often maintained by a sort of mutual consent between school and community , despite exhortations to integrate from curriculum makers and earnest protestations from headmasters and teachers that the process is underway . |
| 16 | At other times , the residents behave as if they are children again and show feelings they had when they were very young . |
| 17 | They are weapons rather than protective coverings . |
| 18 | The name of the shops is a little misleading ; many of the plants are made from synthetic materials and scores of people have stooped to smell the waxy lilies only to find that they are plastic through and through . |
| 19 | Just happy happy they 're hat on and he 's coming out to play . |
| 20 | They were selectivists rather than universalists in their approach to welfare spending . |
| 21 | This distinctive feature may have been retained to convince a money-conscious Council that they were rebuilds rather than new cars ! |
| 22 | They were colourists then and good fabrics in the fourteenth fifteenth century . |
| 23 | The two , sometimes three , hours spent in the College quadrangle when , we are told , the Professor would courteously listen and give an intelligible answer to every question , and when the instruction he communicated was stamped on the memory by the good temper and joke and repartee with which it was accompanied , these were periods which an old student liked to call to memory , for they were hours pleasantly and usefully passed . |
| 24 | This is really the heart of my thesis ; the eighteenth-century philosophers said that true men differed from sub-men because they were rational philosophers rather than poets ; the nineteenth-century positivists said that true men differed from sub-men because they were scientists rather than superstitious believers in magic ; I am saying that men are men and not non-men because they have created artistic imagination which is bound up with the use of language and other forms of patterned but arbitrary expression , e.g. dancing and music . |
| 25 | The they were scabs then and the scabs now , and they 'll always be scabs all their lives now . |
| 26 | Cos these lads now that have gone back , and they were scabs then and they 'll scabs they will be all their lives now . |
| 27 | Some of the patients with a curve in excess of 100° were no longer able to sit because of the pelvic obliquity consequent on the scoliosis ; they were bedridden not because of the Duchenne muscular dystrophy itself but because they had been allowed to develop such extensive spinal curves before referral to an orthopaedic muscle clinic . |
| 28 | Simply to apply findings , without regard to their particular conditions of validity , is to impose prescribed patterns of behaviour on learners as if they were subjects rather than people and to make them submit to solutions which correspond to problems other than their own . |
| 29 | They were worlds apart and she would go finally , but there was a peculiar happiness inside her , not one drop of hatred left . |
| 30 | They were worlds apart and she knew it as much as he did . |