Example sentences of "[pers pn] be your [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am your controller for this mission . ’ |
| 2 | I am your wife , your child , but you will leave me , |
| 3 | " This is your heir , and I am your wife , " she said gratingly . |
| 4 | From this minute I am your wife . ’ |
| 5 | Besides , I am your wife . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I am your wife , my prince . |
| 7 | He kindly but firmly remonstrates with his wife : " Paying the debt " has a clear double meaning in the sexual/conjugal context which the wife , who is made to respond to her husband 's ignorance not by laughing at him but rather by underlining his innocence/ignorance in a play of irony for the tale 's readers/listeners to respond to as they think fit , picks up upon and develops into a crude pun : " " taille " " here is polysemous , reflecting two homonyms , taille , " tally , bill " , whereby line 416 reads : " I am your wife ; notch it up on my account " |
| 8 | and taille , " tail " , thus " rear parts , genitals " , thus giving something like : " I am your wife ; notch it up on my crotch " |
| 9 | ‘ I am your mistress , Benedict ! ’ she threw at him . |
| 10 | I am your king , he said . |
| 11 | I am your prisoner . |
| 12 | ‘ I am your prisoner , my lord . |
| 13 | ‘ But I am your Queen — no one tells me what to do . |
| 14 | ‘ You have to remember , Dorothy , that I am your friend . |
| 15 | So you forgive me because I am your friend when I tell you it is perhaps — baby . |
| 16 | I am your friend , after all . ’ |
| 17 | The waitress — ( God preserve you if she catches you calling her a waitress ) : ‘ Hi , my name is Peggy Sue and I am your server this morning . |
| 18 | O queen , I am your knight and beg your favour |
| 19 | And then when they get bigger you give them more and more freedom to do just what they want to do and all you do is watch carefully and make sure they 're not doing anything obviously , outrageously daft but you let them find themselves and if there are problems they bring their problems to you and you sit down and you quietly talk about it , there 's not shouting , no I say you 've got to do this because I am your parent ! |
| 20 | Well may I forget that I am your servant when you forget what belongs to a master . |
| 21 | ‘ Lady , I am your servant , ’ he said . |
| 22 | ‘ Lord , I am your servant , ’ he said . |
| 23 | You think I am your servant but you are wrong — |
| 24 | After all , I am your cousin . ’ |
| 25 | Well I think that 's illustrated by printing off the words , I am your son , I am adopted in your family , I am your child , I am adopted in your family . |
| 26 | ‘ I am Signora Romagnoli , ’ Wilson said calmly , ‘ and I am your landlady who you called in the middle of the night to give you food and there it is . ’ |
| 27 | I am your daughter 's teacher . |
| 28 | I am your counsel , but you do not hear me , |
| 29 | I am your slave . |
| 30 | I am your slave . |