Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [noun pl] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Susan and Luke and I were friends years ago : we lost touch not long before you and Luke came to know one another . ’ |
| 2 | Some think we are plainclothes cops . |
| 3 | ‘ We are police officers , we would like a word , ’ he said . |
| 4 | ‘ We 're police officers . |
| 5 | But however professional we may have considered ourselves as seamen , our administration never allowed us to forget that first and foremost we were customs officers . |
| 6 | The menu , wholly predictable except for Danish curry pancakes and Danish savory pancakes whatever they are carries adverts , among others , for a retirement home and a ‘ more mature ’ ladies fashion shop . |
| 7 | ‘ Like the Sikhs in your Southall , they are jungli Sikhs . |
| 8 | They are Sekers Fabrics , David Evans and Vanners Silks , all of which manufacture fabrics which sell at the top end of their markets . |
| 9 | It appears , although this is not quite clear from the MoS , that they are YTS trainees , whose pay levels are set by the government . |
| 10 | Thus ( like all other fossils ) they are facies fossils . |
| 11 | There are now some 275 all over the country : they 're savings-and-loans clubs owned and run by their members . |
| 12 | The pickups look like Seymour Duncan Trembuckers , but they 're not — they 're Blues Trembuckers . |
| 13 | And they 're kids toys ! |
| 14 | They 're Walkers crisps . |
| 15 | They are , They 're police cadets , is what they are , They wear uniforms . |
| 16 | One of them sat in the back — again — and made me follow the Escort , but at least this time they were plainclothes men not uniformed , so my street cred did n't suffer . |
| 17 | Three journalists who went to investigate the shooting were abducted at gun point by people who said they were police officers . |
| 18 | Because if we do n't we then run the risk of being injured ourselves erm somebody alleging that they did n't realise they were police officers and therefore shot at us because they thought we were invading their territory or something . |
| 19 | At first I thought they were police cars . ’ |
| 20 | — They were Flinders friends , darling . |
| 21 | Wives should n't talk thus about their husbands , she thought resentfully , especially when they were clergy wives . |
| 22 | Oh well I 've got a bit of a stomach ache and I want to talk to her you know it 's women problems . |
| 23 | And it 's finders keepers , y'know . |
| 24 | You told me it 's fungi fungi . |
| 25 | It 's animals crackers this week , too , as news filters through of yet more groups doing silly things in connection with our four-footed and finned friends . |
| 26 | Erm it 's careers officers , careers teachers , careers coordinators , er depending on where you are . |
| 27 | It is arms races of this kind that have been mainly responsible for the apparently progressive quality of evolution , for the evolution of ever-improved running speed , flying skill , acuity of eyesight , keenness of hearing , and so on . |
| 28 | Erm you earn commission by taking clients who might spend say a hundred thousand pounds on business travel , whether it be flights trains |
| 29 | They will recognise it too in terms of higher charges than perhaps ideally we would want to impose for certain services which the city operates , whether it be sports pitches or whether to be brutal , it 's the cost of actually burying the dead . |
| 30 | Sorry I understand I thought it was careers teachers for a minute . |