Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] a [noun] of [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am a man of my word . |
| 2 | It makes me feel I have been prying into it all , I am a voyeur of their joint life . |
| 3 | There are no perimeters in that world that I can feel ; I am a trick of their fate , peripheral , unclassy , bored . |
| 4 | I am a creature of my Pen , Mr Ash , my Pen is the best of me , and I enclose a Poem , in earnest of my great goodwill towards you . |
| 5 | We will in fact be er I mean I advertise in the er I am a client of his and we will we will be looking at the same he will be a competitor of ours in some fields . |
| 6 | Following these up , I went into a chemist 's shop , introduced myself to the tall lady assistant and said that I was a friend of her future husband 's brother . |
| 7 | I was a member of his party , one of his retinue , and when the great Henry lashed out it was dangerous even to be in the same room as the king 's enemy . |
| 8 | Earlier today the Secretary of State chided me and said that in some way I was an advocate of his system because I used the example of refuse collection and its cost to show that his system was simple and that we were in agreement on it . |
| 9 | And Monsieur O'Hara , 'e is a man of his word . |
| 10 | But what I do say is I am a trustee I am a trustee not of farmer 's land not of your land Mr , not of your land Mr not of your land Mr every person in Leicestershire owns that land , they have got a mark and I 'll tell you sir four thousand five hundred signatures made in one weekend are saying to us you are a trustee of our land , it 's not your land , our land I keep hearing , it 's our land it 's not our land it 's the people of Leicestershire 's land and what the people of Leicestershire land are saying to us sir , they 're saying to us you can not continue this barbaric killing of foxes . |
| 11 | ‘ Annunziata says you 're a friend of my sister-in-law , ’ Comfort said rather abruptly . |
| 12 | And when we say , or the A N C and democratic organizations say , that you need a five percent vote to cross the hurdle to get in to the assembly and then you , you , you 're a member of their parliament so to say and then what do we hear ? |
| 13 | ‘ You were a friend of my parents ? ’ |
| 14 | She 's a woman of her time , and a person in her own right ! |
| 15 | Now , as you can see , she 's a shadow of her former self . |
| 16 | She is a victim of her own propaganda . |
| 17 | Now , what I am about to teach you is an extension of your eidetic capability which you will find of great use in your intended career . |
| 18 | ‘ She was a companion of mine four regenerations ago . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ She was a member of your Justice Police and involved in a security operation at the time of her death . |
| 20 | ‘ Do n't call me daft ! ’ she said , but she was a travesty of her usual bossy self . |
| 21 | ‘ She was a figment of your imagination . |
| 22 | She had undertaken to contact him by the end of next week to report what progress she had made and he did not doubt she would do so , for she was a woman of her word . |
| 23 | After all , she was an acquaintance of my parents . |
| 24 | They have argued for decades as to whether we are a result of our environment or our genetic inheritance , and there are always supporters for each extreme as well as for every position in between . |
| 25 | If they are a sample of your usual conversation I 'm not surprised that he does n't listen to you . |
| 26 | We are still continuously affected by the subtle aspects of life , for they are a part of our inward being , but we are often unconscious of this subtle interplay . |
| 27 | ‘ They are a victim of their own success . |
| 28 | His inquiries and interpretations will inevitably draw polluting and contaminating ideas to the surface , for they are a result of his place as an ‘ institutional shaman ’ and mirror his position as a liminal mover in the organization . |
| 29 | They 're a part of our lives and so is the future and some time soon — ’ |
| 30 | They 're a test of my patience |