Example sentences of "[pers pn] be an [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I 'm an ex-gardener I 'm a horticulturist it take roughly about forty years for trees to reach maturity it does n't say much for our planners if they plan to put those trees there and then now are gon na have them up again it sounds much like change for changes sake and that that it basically my comment . |
| 2 | Christ if you think I 'm an egotist you should look in the mirror baby . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm an artist who likes to be honest and confront . |
| 4 | I 'm revealing so much about myself as I 'm an example you should follow . |
| 5 | I 'm only 38 , but because people think I 'm an OAP I get reduced rates . ’ |
| 6 | IF I was an Australian I would be thinking very hard about it . |
| 7 | ‘ I mean , I was an apprentice meself once . |
| 8 | When I was an apprentice there were two component plants in Europe , and now there are seventeen , and I 've had a hand in establishing the last twelve . |
| 9 | ‘ When I was an accountant I knew when I was going to be busy well in advance . |
| 10 | ‘ So you are an engineer yourself — one of them . ’ |
| 11 | It is difficult to decide when you are an outsider what the business is like . |
| 12 | Curiously , his other life as a painter could be part of the explanation : ‘ If you 're an artist you have to take the holistic view , ’ he suggests . |
| 13 | So if your if you 're an elder it 'll be very difficult to get up those very steep steps etcetera so it 's got disadvantages now it 's been run all sorts of ways it 's was run you know it was run as a as a wine wine bar it was run as a restaurant it 's been run as a bar it 's been run as a stage door club but all this all these ways have been run by private individuals it 's not always been the trust that 's run it it 's been run as franchise all these people have great problems actually making profit out of it and making it suitable . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , Karen , ’ he smiled at her as if she were an acquaintance he 'd just spotted in a crowd . |
| 15 | And if you were a a lecturer in politics and you went to see this play then you might think oh look oh and then you 'd start thinking and if you were a scientist you would think about it in another way and if you were an artist you 'd think about it in another way . |
| 16 | It 's like a little cave in there in the dark with her rags and her bits of cardboard — like a cave and she 's an animal who lives there and is all scared and angry when someone comes in by accident . |
| 17 | ‘ Perhaps they think she can take it because she 's an interviewer herself . ’ |
| 18 | Now in her midforties , she is an ex-addict who works in her chosen field out of emotional necessity — the Aids virus has claimed the lives of half of her community . |
| 19 | I admire her because she is an actress who can also sing and I think she has a wonderful personality , ’ said Mr Hipkiss as he stood with 1,500 screaming fans outside the city 's Ritzy nightclub . |
| 20 | She is an iconoclast who became a grumpy conservative , rejecting the modern industrial world in a grand wholesale manner . |
| 21 | She was an Afrikaaner herself ? |
| 22 | On the other hand , there were those feminists represented by Josephine Butler who believed that prostitution was evil because it destroyed human dignity but who also believed the prostitute had a right not to be harassed , and if she was an adult she even had a right to choose to become a prostitute . |
| 23 | She was an actress herself before she married . |
| 24 | She was an actress who , like the rest of them , had high hopes . |
| 25 | They are an organisation themselves and appreciate the notion of collective responsibility . |
| 26 | Carefully used , they were an instrument which enhanced and profited from royal authority . |
| 27 | Had she been less committed to parenting , perhaps because her children were older and seen to be less in need of her support , or had it been an event which threatened a role or idea to which she was less committed , perhaps losing a part-time job which she did not enjoy , the effect would be less threatening . |
| 28 | As though I did not exist ; as though it were an automaton who cleared brambles and counted magpies . |
| 29 | In fact , facing page 119 , there it was , with Westerby duly posing in front as though it were an animal he had just hunted to its death . |
| 30 | It is no longer fashionable to discuss the Industrial Revolution as if it were an event which happened between 1760 and 1840 . |