Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [noun] be [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Auntie Jo says : ‘ Listen , this is my problem page and my obsessions are my own business ! |
| 2 | ‘ And my reasons are my own affair . ’ |
| 3 | And my father was her shepherd so nobody asks us to their houses , so I never met people like this before and Aunt Emily is trying to bring me out and she 's so sweet , so generous . |
| 4 | My work is my cork and my ideas are my ideas and he ought to leave them alone , I say . |
| 5 | We are Muslims and my husband is my cousin , so from the point of view of tradition it is all right for me to marry him . |
| 6 | Its body was the boy 's flat nose and its mandibles were his sharpened teeth . |
| 7 | Nixon summed up public opinion : ‘ Air is our most vital resource , and its pollution is our most serious environmental problem . |
| 8 | Sainte-Engrâce , however , was also a place of pilgrimage and its glory is its mainly twelfth-century church , one of the most moving Romanesque buildings in the Pyrenees . |
| 9 | Taizé has become the focus of religious renewal for thousands of people and its music is their chief way of entering into the Community 's worship . |
| 10 | Claudia did n't care to dress in such revealing clothes , but Dana was a model and her looks were her chief asset . |
| 11 | The Tory government and their legislation is our enemy and that 's got to be attacked . |
| 12 | Signposting is important in many aspects of essay-writing : in showing your reader where you have got to , how your paragraphs connect together and which words are your own and which are quoted . |
| 13 | The second man from the left to the right is his home was , the third man was a gunner and his name is his home town was Stirling Nebraska and he was the oldest man on the crew . |
| 14 | Mr Gaunt has been the most vocal of this band , and his election was his reward . |
| 15 | He as content and his worry was his younger son , if only he would settle down like Toby and Lynn , find a nice girl , make a home . |
| 16 | And his body is its own lover . |
| 17 | He had no children , and his heir was his brother Anthony 's son , William . |
| 18 | The rector , the Reverend Mr Hallam , was a bachelor , and his garden was his only passion — his ministry quite wilted before it . |
| 19 | And what colour 's his hat gon na be ? |
| 20 | What are the Ministry of Defence estimates of the costs of that and what attempts are his Department making to cover some of those costs ? |
| 21 | And what size was your sheaf ? |
| 22 | Well it , it must have been heart trouble the earliest memory I have of that is mother sending me with a neighbour out of Street , a Mrs , to tell my Aunt Lucy which was my dad 's sister , who lived in Street house , house was right opposite their gateway , now Aunt Lucy and there was er her family she w married a fella in and her daughter , her son and me uncle was my dad 's brother , I lived in the house with her , but er I remember tagging this Mrs from the Street down to Street along road and past the hospital , then along Walk and I up in Street , and er tagging Mrs and er Mrs had never met Aunt Lucy and er me Aunt Lucy suffered , what in those days they call it white leg , a woman 's complaint she was bedridden and er when we went in she must have asked why we were there , Mrs was a little bit flabbergasted and I blurted it out oh me dad 's dead , and me Aunt Lucy nearly went into hysterics , so that 's , that 's all I can manage I remember about that . |
| 23 | So , the patients and our residents are our main er concern and er , if we all er , oppose it in principle and er , er er then er let us see how we 'll erm er , revamp this er response . |
| 24 | We are us , you are you , I am me and our friends are our friends ! |
| 25 | The mother 's boy had never been laid in his life , and your sister was his graduation present from the other two . |
| 26 | Drug trafficking is international big business and your money is their profit . |
| 27 | It is the same with your Self : do n't struggle to impose your will : let your mind be your body and your body be your mind . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ And your aunt is your godmother . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ But my loneliness is my own , ’ Hopkin says at the end of the play . |
| 30 | Tremayne would doubtless have lent me some of the quarter-advance due at the end of the month but my lack was my own choice , and as long as I could survive as I was , I would n't ask . |