Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Torturers were either trained policemen or soldiers , or they were special commando units , or they were trained in USA or Panama , or they simply carried on the tradition of civilian torture . |
| 2 | It 's not that good , cos it 's either Final Fight you have to be or you can only pick out of and or it 's Final Fight guy where you can only be or Guy . |
| 3 | As neither he nor I were long-term government servants , we were rather more critical of policies and decisions , and did our best to see that reasonable criticism was reasonably answered . |
| 4 | ‘ The rumours of a reconciliation between James and me are absolute balls , ’ Becky said . |
| 5 | But I can remember when Richard Harris and me were skint students . |
| 6 | Darlington MP Michael Fallon said : ‘ The health authority and I have been lobbying health ministers for some months and I am delighted Darlington is to get this scanner . |
| 7 | It 's got to be the plum — and I am sure Hereford will be thinking the same way too . ’ |
| 8 | There is a substantial crowd of Schillings contemporaries waiting on library shelves awaiting discovery , and I am sure Marco Polo will bring us some of these . |
| 9 | ‘ And I am sure Mr D'Arcy would like a little refreshment . |
| 10 | The programme in 1988 was basically the same , and I am sure audience and choirs stood then , as they do now , for the ‘ Hallelujah ’ chorus . |
| 11 | ‘ That 's in the future but it will be another chapter in the book and I am sure Joe is going to point a few things out to me and help me along the way . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't think so , Brother , and I am afeared worse might happen . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ This year is the 21st anniversary of Durham Wildlife Trust and I am busy preparing for that . |
| 14 | I am alone on a desolate plain , and I am cold and I am lonely thought Jay , chanted Jay , she could find no comfort . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's a strength being part of an international group and I am glad Courtaulds started to run the activity on a European basis so early . |
| 16 | We now have at Lancaster a team of researchers , working in the Unit for Computer Research on the English Language ( UCREL ) , of which ( of the Computing Department ) and I are joint founders and directors . |
| 17 | And one other thing you should know for the record : Jimmy Rowe , the old man 's accountant , and I are joint executors , God help us ! ’ |
| 18 | The wife and I are shy types but our little chap is fearless . |
| 19 | He added : ‘ Tony and I are good friends and I wish him all the best . |
| 20 | Dick and I are ordinary people , but I think we would make a great team and dream up something far more interesting than most of the claptrap stuffing up the biography departments of bookstores . |
| 21 | Marion and I are living day by day . |
| 22 | Tony Adams , the Arsenal skipper , says : ‘ Niall and I are great friends and have been since he came over here 10 years ago . |
| 23 | I expect you think my brother and I are complete idiots and I think that you are probably right ! |
| 24 | Of course , he knows that you and I are old friends and he transferred his anger to you . |
| 25 | Inspector Spruce and I are old friends . |
| 26 | Anyway , most of what I told Geoffrey is true — that you and I are old friends , and that you lecture in London . |
| 27 | By the time you and I are old men — ’ |
| 28 | I have also purchased a monograph of Parrots from a Mr Lear — When you and I are old men — how pleasing it will be to us to look at these together to quiz them all , and pass our We to upon them ! |
| 29 | He admitted : ‘ Seve and I are different personalities but we do have one thing in common — we want to prove we are the best . |
| 30 | ‘ My father and I are physical counterparts : and during these days more than ever I notice his resemblance to me … ’ he mused . |