Example sentences of "[be] [Wh det] i am " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simon had n't inherited yet ; the house was entailed of course and as there was no direct male heir ( my being what I am ) it looked as if it were going to some cousin overseas , only later it became known that Mary had had a posthumous son : he 's still a minor — here 's another member of my family whom I have n't met , I seem to have an assortment . |
| 2 | I am what I am . |
| 3 | … This ‘ me ’ , that is to say , the soul by which I am what I am , is entirely distinct from body … and even if the body were not , the soul would not cease to be what it is . ’ |
| 4 | And I am what I am by the grace of God . |
| 5 | I am what I am , and that is fine . |
| 6 | For the believer who understands this , ‘ By God 's grace I am what I am ’ is never pious rhetoric : ‘ There but for the grace of God go I ’ is as realistic a statement as any we ever make . |
| 7 | That I am what I am . |
| 8 | I am what I am … |
| 9 | I am what I am . |
| 10 | I am what I am , and I would n't want to change my identity — nobody does when it comes down to it . ’ |
| 11 | I am what I am and I represent the Queen through the Lieutenancy |
| 12 | That 's what I am , let's face it . |
| 13 | I 'm a good Cath'lic , that 's what I am . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ There 's nothing I 've done that I 'm ashamed of , Cleg , ’ she said softly , ‘ my father brought me up to be respectable and that 's what I am . ’ |
| 15 | So that 's what I am . |
| 16 | Sometimes I think it 's pathetic that I have to deal with this simplification of who I am , and then other times I think , that 's it , that 's what I am , what I read , that 's who I am . ’ |
| 17 | I 'm her godson , that 's what I am . |
| 18 | It 's what I am , is n't it ? |
| 19 | That 's what I am about . |
| 20 | To our colleague from London , let me say I happen to be a boilermaker , not because I 'm a dinosaur with me head in the past , but because that happens to be the occupation that I follow and that 's what I am . |
| 21 | That is what a T four bacteria is for and that 's what I am for , and I would suggest y ultimately what you are for as well , and this is why in the end erm nature will cast us aside . |
| 22 | ‘ That 's what I am doing . ’ |
| 23 | and then I put , in fact I put erm office clerk cos that 's what I am . |
| 24 | See you should be taping everything , that 's what I am . |
| 25 | It is what I am , not what I do , that you must worship in me . |
| 26 | The CTP is susceptible of a materialist interpretation and this , in its neurophysiological version , is what I am going to focus on . |
| 27 | I 'm really a workaholic and it is what I am used to now . ’ |
| 28 | She explains : ‘ There is n't really much time to rest or socialise , I 'm really a workaholic and it is what I am used to now . |
| 29 | Charlie , who did n't have a girlfriend at the time , hit back : ‘ I am an actor and doing scenes like that is what I am paid to do . |
| 30 | A mestizo , which is what I am ’ — light , coppery skin and regular features — ‘ is a biological result of the conquest . |