Example sentences of "be a [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | now if you 're a football fan you 'll have been crossing the days out on the calendar for a couple of months now … the supporters scarf will have been washed and ironed and sitting ready for weeks … and by my calculation you 've only got one hundred and sixteen hours left to the big kick off … so here 's a taster |
| 2 | Very near the beginning Maggie gave a wee tip , do n't say you 're a representative say you 're an employee of Friends Provident , it makes life easier . |
| 3 | Well you might be the smallest , but you 're a bully do you know that ? |
| 4 | so who 's going to be sitting in this chair for the rest of the season … if you 're an Oxford fan you 'll have some thoughts … and you can have your say … we 've a competition to pick the manager … |
| 5 | so who 's going to be sitting in this chair for the rest of the season … if you 're an Oxford fan you 'll have some thoughts … and you can have your say … we 've a competition to pick the manager … |
| 6 | I am a criminal to leave you so long without news . |
| 7 | I t had been a lightning love I had felt on that bench , I was sure — too sudden , too amazing — but nevertheless love |
| 8 | Since the Newbolt Report is the first , and indeed has remained the single most comprehensive official report on English , there has been a tendency to use it as the key to the most fundamental ideological impulses of the discipline . |
| 9 | Had it been a mistake to include them ? |
| 10 | Perhaps it had been a mistake to dismiss him so summarily after all , she thought with dissatisfaction . |
| 11 | She feigned enthusiasm , but what she was really thinking was that she 'd been a fool to hope he 'd come here on a more personal mission . |
| 12 | ‘ It would have been a privilege to have you as a student … ah , but your French is already of so excellent a quality … and you are occupied with your researches . |
| 13 | Could there have been a fight causing him to fall and hit the back of his head on something ? |
| 14 | FOR THE International Rugby Board and its member nations , the solution of the South African ‘ problem ’ would have been a godsend had it happened either before , during or immediately after the recent Rugby World Cup . |
| 15 | Has it been a nuisance having them ? |
| 16 | The specimens you were so good as to send to me by Captain Lyon would have been a treasure had they arrived safe ; but his ship was taken by the French , so those were all lost , which is a great misfortune at this time , when they would have been of great service to me , in ascertaining the names of some plants which remain doubtful . |
| 17 | But er we said , oh you 've done very well Gillian and she said to , to your father , she said oh it 's been a pleasure to do it . |
| 18 | We 'd like to say it 's been a pleasure serving you , but we 'd be lying , you miserable tight-arses ! ’ |
| 19 | Well , it 's been a joy to meet you this evening , please can I have another signed photo to replace the old one ? |
| 20 | Mm , apparently the guy that was driving it had overalls on , so he may have been a mechanic delivering it to somewhere or test driving it over there |
| 21 | It had been a sideline to use her to further his love-life . |
| 22 | Probably even all those long walks she says she takes are a pretence to put me off . |
| 23 | But cows must be milked twice a day , every day of the year , so if you are a dairying smallholder you must find your recreation in the variations within the farm . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's money that has gone missing and the High Court proceedings are an attempt to recover it . |
| 25 | The contemporary tumours that Eleanor had been an adulteress made it possible to believe that she preached what she practised . |
| 26 | ‘ It has been an honour to have you here , Li Shai Tung . |
| 27 | ‘ Very well , Miss , ’ sharing the pretence that there had actually been an intention to serve them . |
| 28 | It had been an attempt to force him to withdraw . |
| 29 | It would be a caricature to portray them as hide-bound Aristotelians . |
| 30 | ‘ It would be a pity to turn it into firewood . ’ |