Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] the [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I 'm the man who stokes the boilers ’ ‘ Ah , you 're the boiler-stoker are you ? ’ |
| 32 | ‘ I 'm the man who once made love to your mother and made you . ’ |
| 33 | I 'm the girl who likes living in style , remember ? ’ she drawled cuttingly . |
| 34 | ‘ The thing is , ’ she said , ‘ that he still thinks I 'm the person he used to know when we all lived in the old hole in the bank . |
| 35 | I 'm the person you 've come to meet , ’ she said doggedly , puzzled by Lucenzo 's tight fury . |
| 36 | a problem is a , a lecture , a lecturer , other students , anything of the college er I 'm the person who takes your voice . |
| 37 | You mean like if say , terrible thing to say , if someone in the family dies , do you mean if I 'm the person who goes and tells the relatives , the mum and dad or anything like , yeah |
| 38 | ‘ Spare me that puzzled smile , ’ she said , ‘ I 'm the person who had dinner with you , remember ? ’ |
| 39 | They know better than to believe anything they hear , unless I 'm the person who tells them . ’ |
| 40 | I 'm the woman who put the ‘ OK ’ into poke . ’ |
| 41 | ‘ I do n't know what makes you so certain I 'm the woman who — ’ |
| 42 | I 'm the woman you still think is involved with your sister 's husband , remember ? ’ she said hastily as his fingers closed round her wrist . |
| 43 | ‘ I 'm the chap you come and see if you get pregnant , or whatever . |
| 44 | Will the limbless Mr Azul think I 'm the guy he saw at the front door ? |
| 45 | ‘ I 'm the guy you want to talk to , not some dotty old bird . ’ |
| 46 | If I were the patient I would hope someone would have the common sense not to operate on me . |
| 47 | You might , were you in the celebrity business , react like literary agent Ed Victor : ‘ If I were the agent I would step on some jugulars to come home with $5 million for world-wide rights to the book and the film . ’ |
| 48 | The hedonist has a privileged place in ethics ; his is the case which stands if every other falls . |
| 49 | I was the person who was supposed to go to every city before David got there to make sure that everything was in order , that the hall that was going to be performed in had all the facilities that were required — and the hotels — I had to check all of that . |
| 50 | I 've been through hell , Rachel , believing you had the same problem as me , and I was the man you wanted to go to bed with but could n't stand personally . ’ |
| 51 | I was the girl who couldaint say Non ! |
| 52 | I was the girl who couldaint say Non ! |
| 53 | In Diana 's young mind her brother 's gravestone with its simple ‘ In Loving Memory ’ epitaph , was a permanent reminder that , as she now recalls : ‘ I was the girl who was supposed to be a boy . ’ |
| 54 | My sister was the person who 'd been the trouble , she had boyfriends in infant school , I was the girl who always beat up the boys in infant school ! |
| 55 | Other cars were parked on the lines — it was difficult to find a space ! — but I was the driver he chose . |
| 56 | I 'm pretty sure that I was the reason she left the big house , though I had n't actually been born then . ’ |
| 57 | I was the beetle who woke up and saw the possibility of being a man . |
| 58 | The days of being the last one to leave any night out — ‘ I was the sort who was afraid he was missing out on something ’ — were then at an end . |
| 59 | Nothing was too much to ask if it prolonged her stay , she thought wistfully , so she smiled as she said , ‘ Considering that I was the culprit who booked them in on Ling 's day off , it 's the least I can do . ’ |
| 60 | Well , it was my flat got busted , I was the guy they came to kill . |