Example sentences of "be [pron] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I suppose it must of been me but I have no idea when or why or where because I generally cut the erm side bits off . |
| 2 | Under the present circumstances it could equally well have been me or Quigley . |
| 3 | She burst into tears and said : ‘ It should have been me and not their lovely daughter . |
| 4 | If it 'd been me and I were gon na put it there , I would have put a window there to look out of . |
| 5 | We are us , you are you , I am me and our friends are our friends ! |
| 6 | It made her feel that he did n't mind everyone knowing she was his girlfriend , and he was really sweet to her in bed , told her she had lovely hair and said she must never , ever cut it , it was so beautiful , and then he began to talk about Therese , saying how cruel it was that he had carried the company all these years and now , just because she was the Direktor 's favourite — he snorted at this point and said he really did believe Therese must have been old Franz 's mistress years ago in Vienna — he was being treated like a pariah , no consideration , everyone being rude and unkind to him , Therese allowed to do just what she liked on the stage even though she 'd been no-one before she came to Hochhauser . |
| 7 | Living systems certainly have physical components but you have to be a very thoroughgoing reductionist to feel happy with the notion that biology ( and anthropology ) are nothing but , admittedly elaborate , corollaries to physics . |
| 8 | A mere few days are nothing when we 've already survived so much ! " |
| 9 | Equally foolish in my view , to return to the central subject of this book , is the insistence by Brian Way that children should be given practice in concentration , for second-order activities are nothing if not absorbing . |
| 10 | But Sally and Peter are nothing if not resourceful , and with the aid of some good friends in the building and design world they soon set to work to transform this town house into a haven of beauty and calm . |
| 11 | Tax inspectors and tax collectors , as we all know , are nothing if not rigid . |
| 12 | Post-war , five further pre-production Ki.107 prototypes ( the Germans are nothing if not thorough ) were built . |
| 13 | Economists are nothing if not ingenious , however , and in their ingenuity they have done much to deflect attention away from searching investigation into the nature and operation of organised labour within individual firms and industries . |
| 14 | We are nothing if not pragmatic and we like to see success . |
| 15 | The Omanis are nothing if not determined . |
| 16 | See where this affair with a nobody will lead you ; I would have made you the greatest actress of your generation , and now you are nothing and no one . ’ |
| 17 | So good am I that I turn round on the runners to photograph Tony . |
| 18 | ‘ What am I that you hate so much ? ’ |
| 19 | How much taller am I than him June ? |
| 20 | ‘ What else am I for in this place ? |
| 21 | You are drunk and so am I and in bed you turn your back to sleep . |
| 22 | So am I and we share the same gift of glimpsing the future . ’ |
| 23 | How am I and the family I have brought up to love Punch going to survive ? |
| 24 | Then the scuffles subside and I think I hear my bedroom door opening , so my finger tightens on the trigger and I hear my name and I shake my head and I recognize the voice and I know it is Jancey and she 's shouting where am I and I think they 've grabbed her and made her act the decoy and I 'm trying to work out what to do when I hear what she 's saying . |
| 25 | I said I was not I 'm not gon na be here Friday Saturday Sunday or Monday am I cos I 've got this holiday right . |
| 26 | It 's one thing if you 're fully staffed but if you think that whichever of my boys is on guard duty for the day is responsible for the shopping as well as the cooking , and I have to put another boy on guard as substitute to him and another at the disposition of the local magistrate , and I 've two out on motor-bike patrol — where am I when a case like this comes up and I 've got to be out ? ’ |
| 27 | I am his because he created me ! |
| 28 | Thus was he deprived of the free manpower which had been his and without which began a slow decline in the market gardening business , the hay and straw , and then even the bakery . |
| 29 | The tent that was discovered had clearly been occupied by Bonington ; it contained his possessions and therefore leaves the possibility that the notebook could have been his as well as Joe 's or Pete 's . |
| 30 | Two of those numbers up there are his as well and a painting |