Example sentences of "[be] a [noun] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 I mean , if she had a marriage with him and she had the relationship and now you 're a good friend to him , and you 're a friend to her , she 's probably very jealous of the fact that you 're
2 ‘ You 're a friend of hers ! ’ the man snarled before she could finish .
3 Whe whereas the building trade would say oh I 'll take you , you 're a friend of mine , I 'll take you you 're a friend of I can take you , you 're a friend .
4 Tell them you 're a friend of mine .
5 ‘ You 're a friend of his , ’ Creed said .
6 Whe whereas the building trade would say oh I 'll take you , you 're a friend of mine , I 'll take you you 're a friend of I can take you , you 're a friend .
7 ‘ Annunziata says you 're a friend of my sister-in-law , ’ Comfort said rather abruptly .
8 And when we say , or the A N C and democratic organizations say , that you need a five percent vote to cross the hurdle to get in to the assembly and then you , you , you 're a member of their parliament so to say and then what do we hear ?
9 All I 'm trying to say is that the Brotherhood think they 're a law unto themselves .
10 You 're a law unto yourself , are n't you ? ’
11 Lei Leicester 's the place to be if you 're a scientist in it ? , bloody hell
12 I 'm a layman to you and you 're a layman to me in many senses , and therefore erm the , the , the fact that our students are in effect very often laymen is not something that detracts from their motivation to study , in many instances it 's something that gives it stimulus and underlines it .
13 They 're a test of my patience
14 ‘ They 're a map of who you are .
15 Erm and she 's had seven youngsters and she 's brought them up and she a , on her own she 's had to bring them up cos he left her for another , another woman and erm she had the seven and she 's worked and fought hard cos she would n't ask for a darn thing and er they 're , they 're great those kids , they are , they 're a credit to her , you know , but it 's taken it out of her , she 's
16 " Yes , they 're a credit to you . "
17 I mean you 're a slave to it .
18 You 're a threat to him , so he wants to remove you .
19 They 're a part of our lives and so is the future and some time soon — ’
20 ‘ You 're a menace to yourself and everybody around you . ’
21 ‘ You 're a baby with your car and your games . ’
22 I think if you ha , if you look at Burns in the context of the time in which he lived , he was not an exceptional drinker or an exceptional womanizer , we 're a lot like him
23 ‘ No wonder you 're a whiz at what you do . ’
24 It 's a shock to find you 're a stranger in your family , a cuckoo in the nest .
25 I think we 're a handful for them actually , a lot of us .
26 Both donned two-pieces to prove they 're a match for anybody .
27 ‘ If Barnes , Waddle , Lineker play to form , and please God he gives Gascoigne a free role , we 're a match for anyone
28 ‘ You 're a mystery to me , Miss Glover , you really are . ’
29 ‘ Try not to make your dislike quite so obvious , Kate ; it 's bad manners when you 're a guest in my house ! ’
30 Unless they 're a danger to their human neighbours , they 'll probably be left alone .
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