Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then a long time after that , it was May , and I 'd been the night before , but he was out ( or in bed with someone ? ) and that evening he was in and alone , and we talked some time ( he was telling me about John Minton ) and then he put on an Indian record and we were quiet . |
| 2 | And I 've been the leader of of that party for the last four and half years , I am ready to step down from that , and ready to take up this challenge , and I believe that those experiences , and what I 've done there , will stand me in good stead . |
| 3 | I have been working at the playgroup in Middleton St George for about seven years now , and I 've been the leader for about two . |
| 4 | Now er they were having a concert and I think was the principal part and when he went to have his fee he said , Oh no you can send it to the Blaenau Ffestiniog . |
| 5 | He had once been the leader and she had been the unquestioning follower , but all that had changed now . |
| 6 | And they got are the kids alive ? |
| 7 | Michael , I 've had to work very , very exact my lad and these things I 'd got the sliding gages and put them on and they 'd been the same at the front as they have at the back and that 's the thickness as well . |
| 8 | ‘ We 've played Bristol three times this season and they have been the better side each time . |
| 9 | Above all we must disregard any traditional idea and never , never , be put off by statements of ‘ practical men ’ who say it has been tried before or it will never work ; these two feeble and slavish statements have destroyed countless ideas and they have been the rocks against which many brilliant minds have foundered . |
| 10 | Celtic 's problem is that Rangers are one of the tiny minority and they have been the pre-eminent team on a domestic level , while the other half of the Old Firm have gone four years without winning anything . |
| 11 | And it had been the experience of that war that convinced Richard Cobden of ‘ the utter uselessness of raising one 's voice in opposition to war when it has once begun . ’ |
| 12 | The girl 's body had been laid out just as the others , and it had been the work of a moment to discover the tiny stab wound under the soft left breast . |
| 13 | And it had been the truth . |
| 14 | Anyway , as they were summer clothes , and it had been the start of winter , that had helped make the decision an easy one . |
| 15 | Last night a spokesman for Scottish Enterprise denied there was any question of either its or LiS 's abusing power and insisted that they were not actively marketing Rosyth and it had been the market that has sought out the opportunities . |
| 16 | My wife and I waited over an hour for our meal last night and it 's been the same throughout our stay . ’ |
| 17 | The board bent over backwards to help me raise funds for players and it 's been the same for Nigel Best . |
| 18 | The Act is of mammoth proportions with profound implications for every sector of education , and it has been the subject of intense discussion both inside and outside Parliament . |
| 19 | The female ‘ imaginary ’ which is often counterposed to the phallic code of the symbolic , belongs in history and culture as closely as the law of the father , and it has been the self-elected quest of women 's art to elucidate the character of that interaction , participation and combination . |