Example sentences of "[pers pn] be both [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er as probably er you gathered Stan and I are both ex-policemen in relation to erm to er our our background and er I think I said yesterday to the er some of the guys as well , one of the things that lorry drivers and policemen do have very much in common is that we have pr probably one the shortest erm pension lives of most professions . |
| 2 | My wife and I are both pensioners . |
| 3 | Well John and I are both Chair Person , are Co-Chair at the moment , erm |
| 4 | I will not feel responsible , aligned or guilty simply because he and I are both men . |
| 5 | ‘ You are both island races with an island mentality ’ he says . |
| 6 | You 're both parents . |
| 7 | Both of you , you 're both saps ! |
| 8 | This time , we were allowed to say goodbye and Tom hugged us , saying , ‘ You 're both towers of strength . ’ |
| 9 | You were both heroes for giving up a beautiful sunny day to further the cause . |
| 10 | Surely he would n't do that if you were both daggers drawn . ’ |
| 11 | Last night , a man who answered the door at Pritchard 's home said : ‘ We are both law abiding citizens . |
| 12 | We are both agents of our royal masters . |
| 13 | I think one of the ways gender operates for us is that we are both women researchers and women audiences . |
| 14 | Darren said : ‘ We are both history lovers so enlisting the town crier 's help seemed the ideal way to propose . |
| 15 | Darren said : ‘ We are both history lovers so enlisting the town crier 's help seemed the ideal way to propose . |
| 16 | I know him since we are both children . ’ |
| 17 | But we are both primates , and though we have often functioned as one organism we have nevertheless brachiated through the forests of adventure at rather different levels , and have seen through different eyes . |
| 18 | Mr Chamberlain 's services to the State are infinitely greater than any I have been able to render , but we are both men who are giving all we can give to the service of the State ; we are both men who are , or try to be , actuated by principle in our conduct ; we are men who , I think , have exactly the same views on the political problems of the day ; we are men who I believe — certainly on my side-have esteem and perhaps I may say affection for each other ; but the result of this dynamic force is that we stand here today , he prepared to go into the wilderness if he should be compelled to forsake the Prime Minister , and I prepared to go into the wilderness if I should be compelled to stay with him . |
| 19 | Mr Chamberlain 's services to the State are infinitely greater than any I have been able to render , but we are both men who are giving all we can give to the service of the State ; we are both men who are , or try to be , actuated by principle in our conduct ; we are men who , I think , have exactly the same views on the political problems of the day ; we are men who I believe — certainly on my side-have esteem and perhaps I may say affection for each other ; but the result of this dynamic force is that we stand here today , he prepared to go into the wilderness if he should be compelled to forsake the Prime Minister , and I prepared to go into the wilderness if I should be compelled to stay with him . |
| 20 | We are now both retired and watch TV together if we are both interest ( while I sew up ) ; if I am not interested , or my husband is out , I knit and listen to the radio . |
| 21 | The truth is that we are both trainee Eddie Charltons : slow , grim , defensive and almost joyless . |
| 22 | But they do not question traditional psychology 's male-identified emphasis on , for example , objectivity and success : ‘ We are both feminists … and although we have tried to be objective about the value-laden topics discussed in this book , we know we can not have succeeded entirely ’ ( 1974 : 12–13 , my emphasis ) . |
| 23 | ‘ We 're both civilians , ’ he had told him crisply when he first took him on . |
| 24 | We 're both pros . ’ |
| 25 | Look , we 're both adults . |
| 26 | We 're both adults , so what harm is there in you staying here with me ? |
| 27 | We 're both professionals , ’ stated Kaas . |
| 28 | " We 're both borrowers . |
| 29 | My God , he thought , we 're both frauds , both of us . |
| 30 | But we 're both suspects . |