Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without consulting Ann , he announced that the boy was to be named after is grandfather Tristram Pascoe ; and having taken that decision he went off down to the harbour to see if Gristy was back from the fishing and to crow over winning the wager . |
| 2 | Mark David well it could of been Mark Andrew and then it 'd been Mat at least your name , your initials do n't spell any thing rude |
| 3 | It says because her boss would of been Kenneth Clarke is it ? |
| 4 | Could n't of been David Frost |
| 5 | The board-and-label copy of Marryat 's Mr. Midshipman Easy illustrated earlier admittedly with the added attraction of being Admiral Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy 's copy — cost the buyer some £165 recently . |
| 6 | Gemma , in this her last moment of being Miss Dallam , did not notice the stir Linnet was creating and would not have minded if she had . |
| 7 | Chains of being Robert Foley |
| 8 | PC Timms strolled into the inn , confronted the man at the bar and accused him of being Robert James , wanted for the murder of a police officer at Harwell . |
| 9 | I do not think that anyone has ever accused me of being Ebenezer Scrooge . |
| 10 | The most famous knight in his following , William Marshal , was suspected of being Queen Margaret 's lover . |
| 11 | For half of the twelve tracks here , the Labèques use acoustic pianos ( that has always struck me as an oddity , by the way : a piano , or a guitar that was n't acoustic would be damned difficult to record ; the only non-acoustic piano that I can think of is Joseph Cooper 's dummy keyboard ) ; for the others we are told they play ‘ MIDI Grand pianos & Synthesisers ’ . |
| 12 | Well , the player I was most afraid of was Jack Nicklaus . |
| 13 | The moralistic female I was particularly thinking of was George Eliot , because Nietzsche , the German writer , actually complained that she was a particularly moralistic female , but I was also thinking of people like Mrs Henry Wood and Amy Le Fevre and a few others like that . |
| 14 | Here she was , talking to Nigel , who , admittedly , was very attractive in a blatant sort of way , and all she could think of was David Kent 's long eyelashes and his beautiful brown eyes ! |
| 15 | Being Hereford 's keeper though , is rather like being King Canute . |
| 16 | All Joe 's life he 'd been asked what it was like being Jerry Lewis 's kid and his answer was always : ‘ It 's great , he 's great ’ . |
| 17 | The biggest danger to New Level looks like being Tom Robinson 's Just Right Kyle , which races from trap two . |
| 18 | The half-back pairing looks like being Andy Hunter and Paul Campbell . |
| 19 | In the end I got John Leckie who did a load of good stuff with Be Bop Deluxe . ’ |
| 20 | Among the players he clashed with were Martin O'Neill , Alan Ball , John Fashanu , Ian Crook and Ossie Ardiles . |
| 21 | But the game you 're concerned with is Arthur Evans . |
| 22 | Among the other buildings he is credited with is St. Leonards Tower at West MaIling . |
| 23 | One of the easiest to get along with was Rosie Michelle , a small cheerful Cockney girl who was definitely in awe of no-one . |
| 24 | The only woman Peter Bleech-Palmer had ever slept with was Tina Darne . |
| 25 | Thatcher really did have a sex change , and the one she changed with was Paddy Ashdown , who used to be a man . |
| 26 | I had been trying to get a membership list for the Cicero Club , but the only other name I could come up with was George Macready , a scarfaced iceman who had a profitable share of the City 's gambling and was best known for his sword-extruding walking stick . |
| 27 | One young soldier I trained with was Tony Rees , from Whitchurch , Bristol . |
| 28 | Whatever happened , the last person he wanted to have anything more to do with was Eleanor Fuller . |
| 29 | The one tourist trap we fell into was St Tropez . |
| 30 | Got ta be Shirley Temple then she loved her |