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Example sentences of "[be] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	If you promise not to tell them where I am I 'll give you my mum 's address .
2	" I 'm not really selling anything , " she said hastily , " but if I am I 'll let you know . "
3	Well I suppose I am I shall phone Ruth and see .
4	I take it that I do n't like modern art and yet I can imagine that while being the same person that I am I might have liked modern art .
5	Mind , I suppose if I were the sort of person you obviously think I am I would have known about your predilection for pretty girls — and your low boredom threshold , ’ she said scathingly .
6	which I really am I 'd have brought over my
7	I 'm not in a draught where I am I can assure you .
8	They are I would say , ninety percent semi- skilled .
9	The difficulties that sometimes occur is that erm universities are I would say with some justice do n't always accept that it is Government and Government departments , ministers and civil servants , who are best equipped to define the social needs .
10	Anyway Maggie says oh bugger it she says here you are I 'll pay for it so I give it her back as soon as I come home .
11	here you are I 'll give you this look , this is a nice soft cloth , you can give it a rub with that oh dear
12	Here are I 'll show you getting it . .
13	Oh come on I 'll do it for you , well you 've got ta press so and so , here you are I 'll do it .
14	You just forget it and you can have your apple tomorrow , I 'll save it for you , right , there you are I 'll put it back in there and you can have it tomorrow
15	If they learn who you are I 'll lose more business than I can afford .
16	Cos if you are I 'll have to move mine .
17	Erm and without s sounding too pretentious about it I mean there are I can see this as being a sort of mission if you like .
18	That would have been I would say maybe August nineteen thirty eight .
19	It were n't a tenner each , must of been I would say about six quid each
20	I must I must have been I must have been on good form that day
21	So after the combine had been I used to open the two gates to the field ; let 'em in through one and drive 'em almost straight away out through the other . ’
22	were me as it has been I 'd say that 's interesting , which club is that , oh it 's the
23	And there was a very long corridor with a mo what must have been I should think five , there was no sixth form , so there 'd be five classes , five classrooms off this long the hallway perhaps as wide as this room which is what thirteen feet .
24	But there would 've been nobody would have stolen bodies here though .
25	But the chances are nobody 'll wan na go till after the pubs anyway with these dos so , cos it 's not actually and , they 're having a sort of reception after the wedding
26	Your tentative benefit was not perhaps as clear as it might have been which would have made it easier to lead into my willingness to proceed .
27	Yeah we 're I 'll tell you right now we 're not the cheapest , sorry the least expensive I should say .
28	So once you get towards , take a clock in , make sure you pace yourself , and say at the end of that just put in a sort of sentence to make it look as if it 's been finished off Erm , what I usually do when I do an exam is I spend the first five minutes actually looking at the questions because initially you look for the ones that you 've revised and you see but there may be others there , there 're you can do in a slightly different way than the way that they first appear and that might help you quite a bit , although there are no trick questions in this .
29	What I , what I 'd like to do is , we can say that we 're we can make er a profit or a loss and we can give the figure , so this might have come out at seven thousand two hundred whatever .
30	they 've got the comics , even if they do n't get it right they they 're they 'll have a go , whereas , this is why , this is why I usually teach with comics .