Example sentences of "and [pers pn] is [art] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ We all have our gifts , and yours is The Brain , Hilary , ’ her mother had told her firmly , guiding her away from dates and dances and the like .
2 Total amount missing is close on fifteen grand and yours is the first to turn up . ’
3 well and yours is the same look
4 But they are all old men , and theirs is a dying profession .
5 I saw my first reed bunting 's nest in 1964 in the marsh between the lochs of Spiggie and Brow , and now in the space of twenty-five years they have successfully colonised the islands , and theirs is the only bunting song that today 's Shetland children will know …
6 I knew 'e would like you , because you are a wonderful girl , and 'e is a wonderful man .
7 I is the author , and you is the reader — although here a trick is played and the author talks to us as though we are there , listening rather than reading .
8 Look after her like this and she is a sweet tempered old soul .
9 She and her timorous husband , Mr Raddle , keep a lodging-house in Lant Street , Borough , and she is a friend of Mrs Bardell 's .
10 Her home nestles by the foot of a burn ; and she is a Sister Brush and the weekend was full of her friends , music , long walks and talks .
11 I do not understand Americans , and she is a Jewess as well , so there you are .
12 Kerrie and I both work — I 'm a Post Office driver and she is a telephonist for an advertising company — yet we still ca n't afford to rent privately or get a mortgage . ’
13 ‘ He is a celibate priest and she is a spinster . ’
14 How then do we decide which class to assign a couple to where he is a builder and she is a secretary ( not that uncommon a scenario ) ?
15 Lord Colin Campbell , a New York art dealer , said : ‘ I know the bloody woman and she is a bullshitter .
16 The strain of living up to the lofty concept of marriage that they have invented is tiring , at times , and she is a busy woman .
17 and she is a very , very caring person !
18 Buzz does n't like him , ’ Sam said , ‘ and she is a lady with a very reliable built-in shit detector . ’
19 She wrote to Moray and she is a Queen , like me .
20 And she is a woman with no husband and no son , so she hates me , too .
21 And she is a journalist , as is Buffy 's third wife Penny .
22 And she is a good Christian girl .
23 But she asks who is going to believe her , when he is an Egyptian and she is a foreigner ? ’
24 Right , it 's about this erm lady , I 'll make it that she lived on Dartmoor with her erm grandson erm and her moth and he sa daughter and she is a gran , she was a grandlady a grandmother .
25 She is the heroic Goddess who destroys all evil powers embodied as demons and She is the Goddess of victory .
26 Central to this team is the ward sister , and she is the key to creating a good learning environment .
27 Guns and Killing magazine currently rate her as the sixth most dangerous solo outlaw in the Americas , and she is the highest-ranked woman on the list , coming in at thirty-seven places above the Antarctic esperado Ice Kold Katie .
28 ‘ Whatever happens in the Arc she is just a star and she is the one they 've all got to beat , ’ declares George .
29 The baby soon learns that her presence is necessary for the satisfaction of its needs and she is the first individual " other " whom the infant recognises .
30 ‘ I know that you want to marry Rose , ’ Mrs Maylie told her son , ‘ and she is the nicest person I know .
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