Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [be] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well might I have risen and said , ‘ I will tell you what really happened , for this trial and the real issues involved will one day become the subject of a great novel , and I am a man from two centuries into your future who read that book as a lad … ’ |
| 2 | You are in the lands of the Yek , and I am a general in the army of the Kha-Khan of the Golden Clan — the Yek Altun . |
| 3 | ‘ Pretend you are a princess and I 'm a prince in disguise . ’ |
| 4 | I 'm Moira and I 'm a friend of David 's . |
| 5 | you ca n't hear me , right , ok , I 'll try and speak up a little bit louder , erm my work , I work erm here and I work abroad and I live in Durham , er I 'm a writer and erm one of the things that I 'm most interested in is using art as an inspiration for my work as a , as a writer and I 'd like to be able to show you by this talk , how I do that , erm , I have a few publications , my work 's performed by a local group actually based in Newcastle and I 'm a member of er a group called Another Story and my work 's been put to music by a composer and er a play and the play and sing that , that the pieces of |
| 6 | branch and I 'm a member of the Trefoil Guild . |
| 7 | I 've been a member for er fifty eight year , the W I and I 'm a member in Kirkwall now . |
| 8 | Not that he resents this : ‘ Categories are essential for describing phenomena and I 'm a phenomenon of some kind . |
| 9 | And just to er whet your appetite and I 'm a basket of cherries there . |
| 10 | I 've got a yard from I 'm going up that side and I 'm a yard from the point |
| 11 | Catriona took a look at the brown liquid and thought , ‘ I 'm nineteen years old , I 've failed all my O-grades , and I 'm a disgrace to my family . |
| 12 | ‘ But , Madam , I have a university education , and I 'm a teacher by profession . |
| 13 | The rule was that as a member in good standing of another church ( and I was a member of the Presbyterian Church of England ) one might do so on a temporary basis ; but that if one found oneself doing so for any extended length of time , one should ask oneself whether one should not be confirmed . |
| 14 | He used to come to and I was a member of Springbank for sixty years and er anything I can do Richard , you know . |
| 15 | Erm , I fully support all the comments about the archive system , I have a membership ticket here , and I was a member of that system long before I came here . |
| 16 | ‘ You 're rude , you 're cynical , and I was a fool to ever make love to you . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It was over two months ago that I was approached about the job , terms were agreed and I was a part of Bill Fox 's presidential platform . |
| 18 | ‘ Luckily it was n't malignant but it affected me mentally and emotionally and I was a bit of a mess . |
| 19 | Er I , I was a messenger for a time for the er , we lived in Lane and I was a messenger for a time with the erm A R P headquarters in Drive , now when my uncle got married and he had two children and I 'd , they were issuing gas masks and I had to go down and fetch a gas mask for his daughter and they were great big ones that used to envelope the whole babies with a bellows on the side that the mothers used to have to pump when they were in them , thank goodness we never had to use them and erm |
| 20 | I was brilliant and I was stupid ; I was a credit to the family and I was a disgrace to it . |
| 21 | ‘ And you are a friend of the family of Amotju ? ’ |
| 22 | After all , advertising is a " people " business and you are a member of a team . |
| 23 | I 'm a layman to you and you 're a layman to me in many senses , and therefore erm the , the , the fact that our students are in effect very often laymen is not something that detracts from their motivation to study , in many instances it 's something that gives it stimulus and underlines it . |
| 24 | I mean , if she had a marriage with him and she had the relationship and now you 're a good friend to him , and you 're a friend to her , she 's probably very jealous of the fact that you 're |
| 25 | I was thirteen then , and you were a hero to me in those days . |
| 26 | And you were a butty at that time ? |
| 27 | And she 's a bit of a slag . |
| 28 | And she 's a quarter of an hour late . |
| 29 | And she 's a ring on her finger that 's worth what is it , Bernard , five grand or something ? |
| 30 | She and her timorous husband , Mr Raddle , keep a lodging-house in Lant Street , Borough , and she is a friend of Mrs Bardell 's . |