Example sentences of "[be] [noun prp] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The person in New York you sent a letter to on Beatrix 's behalf-could her name have been van Ryneveld rather than van Ryan ? ’ |
| 2 | Somebody who used to live next door to you , so it must have been Hartsett Close then . |
| 3 | I 'm quite prepared to accept that you 're Miss Fanshawe now , Miss Fanshawe , ’ Wexford said . |
| 4 | You 're Jonathan Ram inside , are n't you ? |
| 5 | In this upgraded version — 1.2 — not only are Typographica fonts not supplied , but they have been replaced by Adobe Type Manager 2. x and ATM fonts of the same style of the originals . |
| 6 | I 'm afraid you wo n't be Miss World again , but you 'll do . |
| 7 | Whatever it was , he knew he would receive the truth now , however unpleasant , and was aware of nothing but thankfulness that it should be Abul Ismail here to tell him . |
| 8 | It occurred to me that it might be Ruth Cohen again , but I could n't have been more wrong , for when I opened the door I found a young police constable standing there in his navy-blue mac wet with rain . |
| 9 | Unless the £2.5 million man curbs that volatile temperament , the next manager to call on his services will be Mickey Duff instead of Graham Taylor . |
| 10 | Got ta be Shirley Temple then she loved her |
| 11 | The desire to be Miles Hunt soon led to the Levellers . |
| 12 | If it was not Bradley Hall , it ca n't be Bradley Hall again , they 're always going in there ! |
| 13 | The play would turn on two questions : did the man officially claimed to be Rudolf Hess really hang himself , and was he Hess at all ? |
| 14 | The first young lady ready to pay off the mortgages on his land can be Lady Lark tomorrow . |
| 15 | And welcome back to the lunch time phone in , I 'm John Simpson here now for another twenty eight minutes , and if you want to join in the discussion you can ring on Oxford three double one , one double one . |
| 16 | ‘ Could n't be Master Joe out , sir ? ’ |
| 17 | John : I wanted to be mid-Atlantic man Now I 'm going bloody |
| 18 | Fred finds out why Garry Schofield wants to be Leeds captain again |
| 19 | It has been Bill Heseltine more than anyone else who brought the royal family into the age of the photo-opportunity . |
| 20 | The two men had been Bermondsey waifs together , living on their wits and sleeping beneath the damp , infested arches in the dirt and rubbish . |
| 21 | The word-books for Dioclesian ( 1690 ) and King Arthur ( 1691 ) were Tonson publications too — earlier sales figures told him how many Fairy Queen quartos to order . ) |
| 22 | In 1983 , nearly 80% of the gas consumed was indigenous , the major import being USSR gas together with smaller amounts from Algeria and Libya . |
| 23 | For example , in the story above , Mrs Glen may have jumped to the wrong conclusion but if you were Mrs Glen how would YOU feel if you were tired , your lesson had been disrupted by exams in the hall next door , several people in the class were being awkward , you get interrupted by an unhappy violin teacher moaning about his pupils not turning up on time and then you re-enter your classroom to find someone crawling under your desk with a handful of expensive musical instrument ? ! |
| 24 | Why , we wonder , were Darlington police so officious over this ? |
| 25 | I tried being John Carradine earlier this evening , but it did n't get me anywhere . |
| 26 | There were SS guards here and there , but no great evidence of people , and then a door opened , a young corporal emerged and behind him Devlin saw a room crammed with radio equipment and a number of operatives . |
| 27 | What is Turgut Ozal up to ? |
| 28 | Is Ben Stacey there , please ? |
| 29 | ‘ Where is Maria Luisa now ? ’ |
| 30 | it 's SNOW FUN around here ! |