Example sentences of "[pers pn] be another [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he thinks I 'm another canary you see ! |
| 2 | I 'm not an outboard motor , I 'm another boat . ’ |
| 3 | You are treating me as if I were another Rosette Fournier . ’ |
| 4 | It was as if I was another man . |
| 5 | Giggs is constantly compared to Best himself , but the former United hero said : ‘ One day they might even say I was another Ryan Giggs ! |
| 6 | I suppose he thought I was another weirdo like him that always sit on benches talking to themselves . |
| 7 | I was another accident , I imagine . |
| 8 | The superficial Limeños who think beyond Lima is Miami and Europe , who talk of the ‘ Indian stain departments ’ and do n't know a campesino is starving — theirs is another unreality . |
| 9 | Though they inhabit the same city as the great mass of the Cairene poor , theirs is another world entirely . |
| 10 | You are another matter . |
| 11 | The argument that he would is that the behaviour was tantamount to a statement ‘ I believe you are another homosexual , ’ which the average heterosexual would surely regard as insulting . |
| 12 | If , on the other hand , you judged the conversation you heard to be trivial and inconsequential and found yourself only selecting certain parts of it : if you changed it , rewrote it , rethought it completely so that it accorded with your own notion of how that conversation should have proceeded , then you are another sort of writer . |
| 13 | Because I said , you 're another woman ! |
| 14 | She stood there and stared at herself , seeing herself from that unexpected angle , as though she were another person , as though she were a dim white and blue statue on a tall pillar , a wet statue , a statue in water , a Venus rising from the sea , with veined white marble globes for breasts . |
| 15 | He told me that if you put one in a box and tapped on the lid , it would knock back , thinking you were another beetle offering itself in marriage . ’ |
| 16 | I was talking with a erm a well she 's not a colleague actually she 's another piano teacher , only about two days ago while walking dogs , she 's walking hers , I 'm walking mine , and , Oh I see from your recent advert in the local paper you 're accepting piano pupils . |
| 17 | She is another child , an ordinary human being over whose appearance Wordsworth has thrown a ‘ supernatural charm ’ ( see previous poem for the purpose of the Lyrical Ballads ) . |
| 18 | As I said , I love the work , but working with you is another matter . |
| 19 | She was another person — her lovely mouth smiling , her eyes softened — and Glyn obeyed an impulse that came quite unexpectedly — he bent to kiss her soundly . |
| 20 | Er two bedrooms , it was a number sixty six Street in those days , there were new houses built on where it is now , I have n't been into Palfry for years but er there were five houses in the row , there was a family named at one end , there was us my nan of course we were next to , next to us was Mrs , a Mr and Mrs , and then er that was one side of the entry the other side of the entry was a family named , they had quite a large family , there was er two or three of those married Mrs and then er then Mrs they were all relatives , cos there was no such thing as overcrowding in those days you got as many in as you could you see , there was , another was Mr and Mrs she was a daughter of Mrs there was Mrs and Mrs she was another daughter of Mrs , and then er there were , there was a , a young man he was a son of Mrs , the were I think show people originally cos they were a bit anyhow there were five houses down the yard we had n't got running water in the sink , we had a , a big stone pump pipe in at the bottom of the entry we all had to go and draw out our own drinking water from this one standpipe . |
| 21 | As well as in the Pyrenees , you may see them further north in the Landes , and in Spain and Portugal , which have lots of them ; given which , it is possible that they are another survival , or tradition , of the Celtiberians , like the Basque language . |
| 22 | Connie pretends to be more interested in her friends ' motivations and feelings than her own , but ultimately they are another way of understanding herself . |
| 23 | He knows as well as I do that , like the assisted places scheme , they are another step towards privatisation of the education system . |
| 24 | Their numbers are increasing annually , they are spreading wider and wider across the country and they are another predator we could manage very well without . |
| 25 | They 're another lot . |
| 26 | Trouble is , if you remove moles you just leave an evolutionary niche for them and they 're another lot move into the field , you can never get rid of them because if you remove your own private moles another |
| 27 | There was the younger generation , the Flemings , they were another case of it ; they certainly had their roots here , but they were different again . |
| 28 | He bought a quantity believing they were Ecstasy , but when he tried them found that they were another drug altogether . |
| 29 | ‘ I thought they were another company , personal enemies . |
| 30 | They were another purchase that Charity had hesitated over , but Mandy had insisted that cocktail waitresses had to be subtly sexy at all times . |