Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | of them are such dickheads |
| 2 | Among them are such features as the screes of the Lake District , which may be fossil forms due to frost shattering in the closing phases of the Pleistocene ; dry valleys in Chalk areas , which have been discussed in Chapter 7 ; some of the gravel river terraces , which , although composed of coarse gravel , have gradients less than those of present rivers , which appear to be capable of transporting no material coarser than sand and mud . |
| 3 | And er as probably er you gathered Stan and I are both ex-policemen in relation to erm to er our our background and er I think I said yesterday to the er some of the guys as well , one of the things that lorry drivers and policemen do have very much in common is that we have pr probably one the shortest erm pension lives of most professions . |
| 4 | My wife and I are both pensioners . |
| 5 | I will not feel responsible , aligned or guilty simply because he and I are both men . |
| 6 | ‘ I am many things , señor . ’ |
| 7 | I sometimes think you would n't recognize me if you saw me as I am these days ! |
| 8 | It just shows how mentally disorganised I am these days . |
| 9 | I was out running on Wednesday night at ten o'clock ; I am most nights at that time . ’ ’ |
| 10 | Miss Bedwelty , having asked Sam what their horse situation was , was saying , ‘ I take it yours are all schoolmasters , suitable for what you 're asking ? ’ |
| 11 | I 'm all sweets things and savoury I like |
| 12 | Yes I am I 'm all ears . |
| 13 | Secondly Chairman I would like to draw the Councillors ' attention to the fact that I 'm this years representative on the South East Waste Regulation Advisory Committee and we have indeed got in hand a project which is to look at the whole of the recycling and the priorities for the South East region and I would imagine that by the time our officers have reported back to this Authority that they will have an advantage of having access to that report . |
| 14 | Survival instincts took precedence , and I was all thumbs as I disentangled camera , binocular , rucksack and rifle straps from round my neck . |
| 15 | I suppose you could say I was all kinds of a fool to trust him , but I 'm a designer , not an accountant . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've been told I was many things in my life , but too hasty … |
| 17 | In my first few years in the London activist network I was several times courted ( it seems the only appropriate word ) to join currently all-male organizations as a token lesbian but none of them offered , alongside the assumption that this would be a privileged or welcome position , the incentive that Switchboard did : the callers . |
| 18 | I was several times on the phone to John Hayward , who supervised such domestic matters , and I was struck by his almost fierce , perhaps too possessive , loyalty to Eliot . |
| 19 | While I was some metres away from it , the ruined door of the tower was flung wide , and the monster emerged . |
| 20 | Mind you , he was also daunted by the fact that I was some years his senior . |
| 21 | Let's say that erm I was these contracts within the first ten days . |
| 22 | Dierdriu said gently , ‘ Had you been half siblings , something might have been permitted . |
| 23 | ‘ You are all prisoners . |
| 24 | I feel you are all friends , so thank you for a lovely magazine . |
| 25 | ‘ You are all fools . |
| 26 | Remember , whether rich or poor … you are all Britons in the first place … |
| 27 | Let's start with a question , since you are all children of parents , do you think your parents did a good job ? |
| 28 | ‘ You are all savages there . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ You are all outsiders , ’ said Liese 's father . |
| 30 | ‘ You are such amateurs , you English , such awful amateurs . |