Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [n mass] " in BNC.

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1 Erm well two of them are cod liver oil .
2 The losses suffered by the ‘ Names ’ at Lloyd 's of London made headline news because some of them are MPs or judges and others are celebrities .
3 Some of them are people that erm that I 've generally had contact with , in terms of starting to talk to people about it erm , other people are being kind of , what 's the word , optimistic , with the truth Likes And The Brides for example , erm
4 well I mean you 're right in a way Bob those people who seem to get on within a company some of them are people who seem to be able to say the right words at the right time do n't they ?
5 The specimens identified by Koehler ( 1907 ) as A. palmeri proved on re-examination to be wrongly identified , some of them are A. filiformis and some A. grandis .
6 This problem must also have been worse for some people because , even though I 'm only 16 , I am 5ft 8ins .
7 I am 5ft mumble-mumble .
8 I am 5′ 1″ tall and a size 10–12 , but only take size 2½–3 in shoes .
9 I am not.fit for public Life , ’ he wrote from Bristol to his new friend John Thelwall , the radical lecturer ; ‘ yet the Light shall stream to a far distance from the taper in my cottage window ’ .
10 I am kin with the slopes hereabouts .
11 I am 6ft 2ins and stand much further back than his recommended distance of five feet , and from approximately 1- to 12 feet do not ‘ require an exaggerated upward movement of the head ’ .
12 Because I 'm 5ft 7in I find a lot of jackets in other shops are too short in the sleeves .
13 Bennett has also made a good recovery from a torn thigh muscle but insisted : ‘ I 'll only play when I 'm 100pc right .
14 I said to your mum I have n't got I must have cut something and I 'm pshht the blood went everywhere all
15 I 'm 235lb of twisted steel and sex appeal , ’ he boasts .
16 You 've bitten through a bigger peg than this one I 'm dragging.Tell us what to do . "
17 I reckon I 'm £10 better off most weeks .
18 He said ’ I 'm 100% certain .
19 ‘ Fortunately , I 'm 6ft 3in , weigh 190 pounds and have an excellent command of Anglo-Saxon English .
20 I 'm Corps Liaison Officer for Admin. and Supplies .
21 Eleven I 'm bid. , Twelve , thirteen , fourteen , fifteen , sixteen , seventeen , eighteen , nineteen , twenty pounds .
22 I 'm sad.He was a character , and there arne't too many of those .
23 and his were fivepence ha'penny
24 I was 5′ 10½&in in height in bare feet and weighed soaking wet no more than 12½ stone and since I played in the park , usually at open side wing forward , and since I played against genuinely big men , it therefore followed I had to be galvanically quick .
25 I was 5ft 8in , 36-22-36 and with a new perm and a borrowed swimsuit and high heels , I won .
26 I was 5ft 8 inches , 36–22–36 , with a new perm and a borrowed swimsuit and high heels ; to a blind man on a galloping horse I looked like a professional beauty queen .
27 By this time I was 5ft 7in , weighed six stone , was covered in boils , had a mouthful of ulcers and had n't had a period for four months .
28 I was st ill laughing .
29 Despite the fact that I was petrified with fear , I was st ill their leader .
30 I was 6ft 4in when I was 14 and 6ft 2in when I was 12 … that does n't help at all . ’
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