Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] be [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 You see , my day rate , then , of course I was piece work , but my day rate then would be er er two pound twelve and six pence .
2 Setting a blistering pace of 91pts on day one , on day two it was 92pts easing off slightly on Sunday it was for them a modest 89pts to give them a grand total of 272pts , 16pts clear of the teams in second and third places on 256pts they were Karl O'Donnell ( Newlands ) , C Burke , V Burke , C McKeone .
3 During a full meeting of the convention later , Councillor John Connolly , of Central Region and chairman of the COSLA water and sewerage committee , said that since a great deal had been heard about taking stock it was time Mr Lang faced up to the fact that he had completely lost the argument for privatised water and sewerage services , including a franchise arrangement .
4 it 's not Mr Branson it 's Mr Branson , oh shit , shoot
5 ‘ Who 's that lying on the runway Who 's that lying in the snow It 's Matt Busby and his boys Making such a f***in noise cause they ca n't get the aeroplane to go ’
6 ‘ If I failed in some aspects it was Tom Bradley who failed .
7 And as they came to the final furlongs it was Roc de Prince , Laura 's Beau , Sure Metal going for the line and then on the outside , up came New Mill House .
8 THE title Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistlestop Cafe ( Columbia Tristar , PG , out now ) may be a bit of an unappetising mouthful but as a movie it is gourmet fare .
9 if you leave them in the pile fair enough and I think they can go to archive , but please can you re-title the contents page and the pages cos they 're not interview data it 's count data , er I would of thought by now Scott knew the difference between interview and account
10 ‘ I dreamed about Izzy Kleiber and the Punishment Squad , only in the dream I was Izzy Kleiber , and I was drowned … . ’
11 Only two previous premiers have had a single K. They are Lord Liverpool ( R. B. Jenkinson ) and the Duke of Portland ( W. H. Cavendish Bentinck ) .
12 They 've got several in erm I suppose they are sport they are sport shoes covers running .
13 Listen no wonder he 's world champion he can go afford to skiing , his dad 's a multi-millionaire !
14 There Frank Sinatra that is and er Brazil it 's Radio Nottingham fourteen minutes to two bit late with everything today thanks for all your calls on that .
15 To his peers among the hardcore diaspora he is punk rock personified , the noble savage — poet , performer and publisher , a Nietzschian superman in baggy black shorts and ‘ Search And Destroy ’ tattoos .
16 And er we were on that for about an hour or so and then they got rid of the the badly injured were taken off then and put on the Therris it 's support vessel that was Just happened to be there at the time .
17 While Rush ended the night as the hero it was Paul Stewart who got Liverpool going .
18 Just a reminder then of er the scores tonight , in the Coca Cola Cup , Peterborough two Blackpool one and Shrewsbury one Blackburn Rovers one and the Anglo-Italian Cup , it 's Bolton one Brescia one and in group B it 's West Bromwich Albion two Padova one .
19 By July he was flight Lieutenant and part of the detachment operating from Malta in support of the operations in Sicily .
20 I have used the last of the old chemicals , and for the moment I am Henry Jekyll again .
21 For the moment I am Henry Jekyll again .
22 But erm again , it 's it 's good fun , kind of a good laugh with the wedding cake , at least with a wedding cake you 're spending money and you 're getting fed and everybody 's getting a bit of it !
23 Rose was also a skilful card player , and for several years she was world champion at poker .
24 It was certainly a family picture — four ladies seated in a row with their offspring cross-legged on the ground in front of them : from left to right they were Sarah Kleiber and Benjamin , Gloria Judge and Matthew , Ruth O'Dell , with Lilian on her lap and Danny at her feet — and Maudie Judge , with her hand on Trevor 's shoulder .
25 Well after the , the aircraft had actually er left the airport to go , be handed back to the RAF they said sometimes had to be serviced or final adjustments made and that 's what they used to go out there for but erm Helliwells was ver it was still , all through the war it was Helliwells aircraft they used to have their own lorries and everything and they used to erm , be under the auspices of the Air Ministry but it was very much a private company .
26 In the Second World War it was Chiang Kai-shek 's lifeline .
27 Wonder what Charlotte 's passion will be by her next birthday , at the moment it 's Postman Pat .
28 For a moment it was Florence Nightingale speaking .
29 If anyone alive was not in need of cheek-roses at that moment it was Mr Cottle .
30 And what you said about mortgaging a school , how can a school mortgage it 's school premises if we 've already mortgaged it , with our eighty-five million borrowing , we 've already got half the schools in this county on a mortgage anyway .
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