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Example sentences of "[pers pn] be me " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	We are us , you are you , I am me and our friends are our friends !
2	I am not a full man , and nothing can ever alter that ; but I am me , and I regard that as compensation enough .
3	I 'm me .
4	Another , who works in a uniform all day , said how important her earrings were , and the short dreadlocks under her hat ; how she felt they were making a statement for her , something like : you may think I 'm an ordinary , boring nurse , but my hair and my earrings give you the clues ; this is what I 'm like out of my uniform , I 'm different , I 'm me .
5	After all , I 'm me !
6	‘ Do n't be silly ! ’ said Shanti , ‘ I 'm me . ’
7	I 'm me . ’
8	I 'm me .
9	I 'm me .
10	I 'm me . ’
11	I 'm me own huntsman today . ’
12	Besides , I 'm not Eric ; I 'm me and I 'm here and that 's all there is to it .
13	I 'm me and here 's here .
14	I 'm me and Colin are settling down a lot compared to what we were five year ago .
15	I was me and it was both frightening and exciting , like driving very fast round a precipitous bend with someone now and again taking my hands off the wheel and forcing me to trust .
16	I used to be Harry Maxim , then I was me and Jenny , and now I just do n't know and it 'll take more than lemon tea and a pink silk handkerchief in my sleeve and reading Goethe over breakfast to tell me .
17	Someone who would smile when I walked into a room , look pleased that I had come home — not because they wanted something from me , but because I was me .
18	Oh if I was me and I was on my own I 'd ha I 'd have to have the telly in the bedroom .
19	‘ 'E 's me best friend . ’
20	‘ You ca n't tell him you 're not a professional ! ’ she snapped , and , muttering something that sounded uncomfortably like ‘ wet behind the ears ’ , ‘ You 've got to pretend that you 're me — Cara Kingsdale ! ’ she insisted .
21	She , she was going like , you 're me and I 'm her
22	What would you do if you were me ? ’
23	What would you do if you were me ?
24	‘ If you were me ?
25	I was unsure whether to make her Northern , like my own mother , which works wonderfully well with Zelma-like lines , eg. ‘ If you were me , would you wear the blue dress with the beading that everyone 's seen me in , or the new one I 've kept hanging up for two years ? ’ or ‘ Sha n't I buy the beef , then ?
26	‘ Whether you were me or Jackie Milburn you got the same money , and it was n't much .
27	Cos I thought well if you were me
28	Cos everybody 'd be thinking you were me .
29	‘ That 's a smart pair of daisies ’ ( daisy root = boots ) ; ‘ She 's me old Dutch ’ ( Duchess of Fife = wife ) ; ‘ Use your crust ’ ( crust of bread = head ) — more widespread now as ‘ Use your loaf . ’
30	No sisters until mother got married again , and me sister as I call her now , she 's me of course my half sister , Jessie , she was born I 'd be about seventeen cos she did n't get married till after the First World War , remarried me step-father was in the forces and he fought , he actually fought in the Boer War so he was a a soldier in the Boer War and in what we call the Great War , nineteen fourteen to nineteen eighteen , but er I had a misfortune to lose the brother next to me , Frank , which he had what was common in those days tubercular trouble , tubercular tuberculosis affected the bowels , see he died in , on August the fourth nineteen eighteen in the old infirmary that now classed as the Manor Hospital , but that was the old infirmary cos we there was no widow 's pension in those days , our mother was a bridle stitcher and she used to do have an old fashioned clamp , have you ever seen the clamps that are leather , th tha they held them , the leather , she used to stitch bridles at home , we used to help her with waxing the threads have a leather apron and a bit of wax and pull the wax over the thread , and then roll it round till it was strong enough to thread it , we used to make the threads for her to er stitch the bridles .