Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] be a very " in BNC.

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1 I can talk about it freely now & we have all picked ourselves up & dusted ourselves down … says that she is a stronger person ( maybe even ‘ harder ’ ) … & she is a very efficient business person & lives & works in Glasgow .
2 Either that , or she was a very good actress .
3 You have a choice of pine which can be varnished , stained or painted — or there is a very attractive solid cherry .
4 Danielle is a very happy and contented baby and I am a very happy and contented full time working mum — and as far as I 'm concerned that 's the best recommendation I can give to those of you who are in the same boat as I was of dreading re-entering the working world !
5 My name is Scruff and I am a very good dog but I 'm awfully expensive to keep because I needed two operations and I am still not fully recovered .
6 Phil was always a fearless seaman , and I am a very cautious one .
7 And I 'm a very keen golfer and I had built up a reputation erm by playing in open tour open tournaments and meeting professionals and
8 And I 'm a very bad housekeeper .
9 Bonefish , in brief , was a very good man who had never heard of Sir Thomas Breakspear , and I was a very lucky man for the fortunate accident of having met Bonefish .
10 And all the M S M was offering was erm a maximum of fifty pound and I was a very lucky person to have that .
11 I am only a man like any other , and you are a very pretty girl .
12 ‘ I 'm a red-blooded man , Paige , and you 're a very desirable woman .
13 And you were a very good friend to poor Hilda , too , were n't you ?
14 In nineteen seventy two the I R A attempted to assassinate you and you were a very very lucky man , yo your body was was absolutely riddled with bullets .
15 But I 've spent time in her presence and she 's a very sexy lady .
16 And she 's a very loyal member of the congregation .
17 And she 's a very good girl now , is n't she ?
18 ‘ She 'll be absolutely heartbroken , Boz — and she 's a very sick girl .
19 He goes to a school in the Tene Valley , it 's a teacher that , he used to go to Exeter school and the teacher 's opened her own school and , only for lo a small time and then she 's opening up actually in Exeter but this is an in between and she 's a very good teacher !
20 and she is a very , very caring person !
21 She spoke very nicely and she was a very nice person but she was a little bit er you know , It 's disgusting , she used to say .
22 She worked at home , she used to make er bags , you know , er shopping bags , and she was a very good machinist and a remarkable cook and everything .
23 Denise has a young baby and she was a very popular landlady , always greeting us with a smile . ’
24 But we welcome everybody really , from the age of fifteen or sixteen to seventy , and we turn nobody away and we 're a very warm welcoming group .
25 My mother had four children in six years , and we were a very close-knit family . ’
26 And there 's a very special offer for you if we receive your request as a result of this notice .
27 And there 's a very special offer for you if we receive your request as a result of this notice .
28 And there 's a very welcome trend towards more comfy , flattering bigger briefs , fitting to the waist .
29 Erm , th I 'd like to make a couple of points about traditions , women 's traditions , one is particularly looking at th the oral tradition o , the tradition of poetry in Scotland , and there 's a very rich tradition of Gaelic poetry , and ballad singing , as
30 And there 's a very great deal of money at stake here . ’
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