Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] be a very " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can talk about it freely now & we have all picked ourselves up & dusted ourselves down … says that she is a stronger person ( maybe even ‘ harder ’ ) … & she is a very efficient business person & lives & works in Glasgow . |
| 2 | Either that , or she was a very good actress . |
| 3 | Danielle is a very happy and contented baby and I am a very happy and contented full time working mum — and as far as I 'm concerned that 's the best recommendation I can give to those of you who are in the same boat as I was of dreading re-entering the working world ! |
| 4 | My name is Scruff and I am a very good dog but I 'm awfully expensive to keep because I needed two operations and I am still not fully recovered . |
| 5 | Phil was always a fearless seaman , and I am a very cautious one . |
| 6 | And I 'm a very keen golfer and I had built up a reputation erm by playing in open tour open tournaments and meeting professionals and |
| 7 | And I 'm a very bad housekeeper . |
| 8 | Bonefish , in brief , was a very good man who had never heard of Sir Thomas Breakspear , and I was a very lucky man for the fortunate accident of having met Bonefish . |
| 9 | And all the M S M was offering was erm a maximum of fifty pound and I was a very lucky person to have that . |
| 10 | I am only a man like any other , and you are a very pretty girl . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm a red-blooded man , Paige , and you 're a very desirable woman . |
| 12 | And you were a very good friend to poor Hilda , too , were n't you ? |
| 13 | In nineteen seventy two the I R A attempted to assassinate you and you were a very very lucky man , yo your body was was absolutely riddled with bullets . |
| 14 | But I 've spent time in her presence and she 's a very sexy lady . |
| 15 | And she 's a very loyal member of the congregation . |
| 16 | ‘ And she 's a very good girl now , is n't she ? |
| 17 | ‘ She 'll be absolutely heartbroken , Boz — and she 's a very sick girl . |
| 18 | He goes to a school in the Tene Valley , it 's a teacher that , he used to go to Exeter school and the teacher 's opened her own school and , only for lo a small time and then she 's opening up actually in Exeter but this is an in between and she 's a very good teacher ! |
| 19 | and she is a very , very caring person ! |
| 20 | She spoke very nicely and she was a very nice person but she was a little bit er you know , It 's disgusting , she used to say . |
| 21 | She worked at home , she used to make er bags , you know , er shopping bags , and she was a very good machinist and a remarkable cook and everything . |
| 22 | Denise has a young baby and she was a very popular landlady , always greeting us with a smile . ’ |
| 23 | But we welcome everybody really , from the age of fifteen or sixteen to seventy , and we turn nobody away and we 're a very warm welcoming group . |
| 24 | My mother had four children in six years , and we were a very close-knit family . ’ |
| 25 | Well I was involved with these professionally , and they are a very high standard , and it 's certainly not going to solve our housing problem . |
| 26 | And it was worn in the eighteen forties , and they were a very ordinary , ordinary family , I ca n't remember what Mr Dew did , but I mean , it was nothing special , he was he was just an ordinary professional man I think . |
| 27 | Tony is er Professor of Economics at Cambridge and is a world renowned luminary in economic circles and er he 's , he 's here for the next week as a special professor and er is giving a number of lectures er most of which are open to , to all , to all students and he is a very famous economist , very clever chap you know if you can get to see him I , I 'd reco I 'd recommend it erm presuma there may be a sort of programme of his visit stuck up on the student notice boards erm , if there is n't er he 's giving a , a lecture tomorrow two o'clock in B seventy four and that 's , that 's if , he is going to be talking to the M A students er taking Economic Development and Policy Analysis and his topic there is comparing income inequality and poverty in Europe erm so if you , you know , if you are free tomorrow at two it just might be interesting to go along to , feel free to go to B seventy four tomorrow at two o'clock . |
| 28 | I watched him on the Lions tour and he 's a very good player . |
| 29 | Fagg 's already muttering threats and he 's a very powerful figure in this club . |
| 30 | He had functioned in the community , not just in his family up until … you know , with a lung function that would have kept a lot of people in bed , and he was reading , writing — he had published an article shortly before his hospitalization , and he was a very forceful fellow . |