Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] be [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My favourite was Ivy who was blonde , buxom and fun and took me — oh what delight — to see Roy Rogers in Son of a Pale Face . |
| 2 | When I was put in charge of the start-up at Fawley at the ripe old age of twenty-nine most of my team were people who were twenty years older than I was and being on shift with a lot of operating people taught me the problems and the realisation that I could learn a hell of a lot from them — the realisation that the chap on the shop floor usually knows far more about what 's going on than management does . |
| 3 | On my right is Jeff who is a founding member of the Save Campaign and an ex-patient of . |
| 4 | Below me were Ribblehead and the viaduct , while to my right was Ingleborough which for the first time in days looked fresh and green instead of glowering and grey . |
| 5 | As soon as they realised my charge was arson I was left to sit in the cubicle : everybody else disappeared . |
| 6 | Oh hi , hi there , my name is Mrs I ordered an oven about two weeks ago , I just wanted to know if it 's in er where , where we looking at that ? |
| 7 | one day a Boy had a imvertashun to go to a party in Sawth a Merica on the way a crocodil sad Hello Boy do you wont to come Friends yes sad the Boy do you want to come to a Party with my yes sad the crocodil comon then ill calle you Croc do you like that name yes i do What is your name my name is dafydd you can koll my dafy Comon then When they came to the partty a nother boy said helo crocodile and the crocodile said my name is croc okay said the boy croc come and eat okay Boy So he did . |
| 8 | but that the , the , these are some things I 've got , you do n't have to answer them my name is Emily what is your name ? , how are you ? , |
| 9 | My name , my name 's Rob which you may call me . |
| 10 | My name 's Paul I 'm a sergeant with the Community Affairs Department er I 'm , I was based at until last week but now I 'm based at temporarily . |
| 11 | I worked for three years as a school counsellor in South Brompton , and the majority of the children who came my way were children who had some degree of behavioural difficulty or emotional disturbance . |
| 12 | Any Associate is recruited with the prospect that he or she will be eligible for partnership after a few years : business development abilities , superior counselling skills in the field and a deep commitment to the firm and its progress are qualities which will rapidly become determinant . |
| 13 | The term used to denote the relationship between the girl and her lover was sambandham which in other parts of South India denotes " marriage " of a more straightforward kind . |
| 14 | The first fruit of their work was legislation which provided that no land which was not already operational could become so unless certain planning requirements were met . |
| 15 | Their theme was simplicity itself : the precentor wished to become a monk ; the bishop wished to retain him in the service of the cathedral . |
| 16 | But this girl her name is Monica she looks to me as if she 's suicidal , she could do anything . " |
| 17 | Her topic was jealousy which she attributed to parents bringing up children to think they are unlovable . |
| 18 | Her father was kindness itself , but he was the sort of man who gave little credit to anyone who had fallen from grace . |
| 19 | For many men in the groups , losing their virginity was proof they 'd reached adulthood . |
| 20 | Although her mum was upset and her dad was cross they did n't chuck her out but have been very supportive and she still lives at home with her two-year-old son . |
| 21 | The first serious attempt was made as early as 1869 by a young Swiss doctor , Johannes Friedrich Miescher ( 1844–1894 ) , whose uncle was Wilhelm His ( 1831–1904 ) , a most unusual anatomist who maintained the forward-looking proposition ‘ La solution finale du problème du développement tissulaire se trouve dans la chimie ’ ( The final solution of the problem of development of organs is to be found in chemistry ) . |
| 22 | No , they just called him Gazza , his name is Gasgcoine nobody knows what his first name is . |
| 23 | His name is Algernon Webb-something , Stonely-Webb , oh something like that , only he could n't quite remember . |
| 24 | They had er his name was Jimmy they had er well one used t one old gentleman used to be a yes and his name was Jimmy , the waiter , that 's right I , I get a , I have to think because I , I sometimes get mixed up and I 'm at Cambridge and you see it was a long time ago , you see , so , since I was young and I was then . |
| 25 | In my view , a number of the points raised in his petition are matters which could have been raised at the appeal . |
| 26 | For that matter , she might not have been far out in thinking him impudent ; his manner was innocence itself , his deference if anything delicately overdone , as though he were ready to come down off his high horse the moment she came down off hers , and did n't anticipate that the descent need be long delayed . |
| 27 | His dad was Mickey who keeps goal for Colchester United , I do n't know if he was at the match , but he was , er had a very good game . |
| 28 | He insisted that his target was Mamaloni himself , whom he saw as unacceptably arbitrary and authoritarian in his leadership , rather than the ruling Alliance Party as such . |
| 29 | Included in our definition were people who had mild chronic renal failure who suffered an acute or chronic deterioration of function and then made some recovery . |
| 30 | Thus the core of our concern is rape itself , and fighting it falls within our mandate . |