Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] be [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do you still think I 'm Mrs Smith ? ’ |
| 2 | They extended a half inch beyond my toes but the way he spoke you 'd think I was John A. ‘ Snowshoe ’ Thomson . |
| 3 | So erm you know you , you , you I mean I 'm I N F J and so it 's alright for me to think I 've changed your thinking . |
| 4 | Other non-Leeds players who have impressed me are Terry McDermott when with Liverpool in late 70 's and Jeremy Goss of Norwich this season . |
| 5 | Coxing them is Martin Haycock from Wallingford in Oxfordshire . |
| 6 | The Brazilian has himself been world champion three times . |
| 7 | Do you know who was Mr. Stavanger 's dentist ? " |
| 8 | I expect you 're Monsieur Lemarchand ? ’ she added , schooling herself to remain calm . |
| 9 | ‘ We say you 're Philip Doyle . |
| 10 | It 's just that … you say you are Elsie McKillop 's brother … ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Dids't thoo say we 're Lady Lassiter 's faither and brother ? ’ |
| 12 | One man who would sacrifice all his prize money for the year just to win the Wimbledon Singles Crown that has eluded him is Ivan Lendl , and the tension clearly showed when he lost to the Canadian Grant Connell in windy , dark , and damp conditions in the Stella Artois Championship at Queen 's Club . |
| 13 | it 's gorgeous out there , do you know it 's Easter weekend , next weekend , the first , the papers up , cos I did n't really know when it was , it 's Easter Sunday , a week this Sunday |
| 14 | Now a daft question in a way but how do we know it 's Tower Bridge ? |
| 15 | ‘ How did you know it was Mrs Marr 's ? ’ |
| 16 | Did you know it was Jimmy James and the Vagabonds ? |
| 17 | ‘ Did you know it was World Communications year 1983 ? ’ |
| 18 | asks us to forgive the ‘ designer stubble ’ — he did n't know it was photo day ! |
| 19 | How did I know he was leadership stuff ? |
| 20 | They giggled with bagels in a park strewn with dog-shit and broken bottles , and pretended it was New York . |
| 21 | Stella pretended it was Uncle Vernon in the coffin . |
| 22 | In order to increase it 's market share and to build exciting long term business prospects it was quickly realised that Noble Metals would have to provide more value to it 's customers that their competitors . |
| 23 | It should be noted that this figure excludes sales to the UK sector of the North Sea which are not classified as exports and reinforces the point made in last year 's survey , that the Mechanical engineering sector in Grampian is having considerable success in widening it 's export markets . |
| 24 | I 've got no idea of what it might fetch , but as I say it is fiction Kath , do n't worry about it . |
| 25 | They all say it 's time Hawkwood was put on the map against that Greycoats . |
| 26 | They , they put , we go to er , a little shop in , only a little shop and they have to got into er one at Croydon every Thursday , and he get 's , the manager , he get 's the er , driver 's to come out of head office , and what staff , and he always buys it in bulk and he , he still buys say it 's coca cola say it was ten pence a can |
| 27 | They also say it was government research which slipped back the most between 1973 and 1981 and that industry needs to be allowed to make profits before upping R&D . |
| 28 | Say it was sewage farms that 's |
| 29 | They say it was Quatro Flats . ’ |
| 30 | But I live in fear of calling out the rescue team for a solitary figure glimpsed high on a darkening summit , only to find it 's Hamish McInnes nipping back up to fetch a dropped mitten . |