Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would just like to say that I am 44 years of age , so art has no barriers . |
| 2 | It is true that I am pure spirit . |
| 3 | One more time my skin warms against his and reminds me that I am this person , not generic , wife of nothing . |
| 4 | ‘ Your tone would seem to imply that I am some sort of Bluebeard who keeps her incarcerated . |
| 5 | According to the last good book I read , this means that I am half way through my time travel , my travel through time . |
| 6 | International banking is an interesting business anyway , but what makes it rather more interesting in this case — both to me and to the hapless Ohioans whose money I am selling — is that I am 25 years old with just one and a half years banking experience . |
| 7 | Another item I picked up some time ago from across the Atlantic was the information that the British 7′¼″ gauge was only found on the Great Eastern , a piece of information that I 'm sure Vic Smith will agree to be even more surprising than anything in his talk ! |
| 8 | Erm , that sounds very persuasive to all of us nowadays and I fully believe it , that part of what makes me me is in fact er the fact that I 'm this shape and this size |
| 9 | Secondly Chairman I would like to draw the Councillors ' attention to the fact that I 'm this years representative on the South East Waste Regulation Advisory Committee and we have indeed got in hand a project which is to look at the whole of the recycling and the priorities for the South East region and I would imagine that by the time our officers have reported back to this Authority that they will have an advantage of having access to that report . |
| 10 | Why would you suppose that I 'm some kind of insomniac ? ’ |
| 11 | You 've got this superior idea that I 'm some sort of half-wit from the back of beyond who has n't the vaguest notion of what happens in the big , bad world . |
| 12 | You see , if you like me then you 'll think that I 'm some sort of brain surgeon , and if you hate me then you 'll think I 'm shit … the truth is in the middle . |
| 13 | It 's just that I 'm big build . |
| 14 | The duke and his close associates saw this small office as ‘ some mean to treat those folks who Club together and are disposed to believe that I 'm incompatible wt them ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ When I told Martin that I was 10 weeks ' pregnant with my second child , he enjoyed telling people how clever I was because I 'd arranged it between the interims and the final results ! ’ |
| 16 | From the time that I was eight years of age , on coming out from Morning Service , I could not hang about with my friends , but had to dash to the Sunday Newspaper seller who operated a pitch outside Wilkes , Son and Cassey 's Ironmongers Shop on the corner of Milford Street and Queen Street . |
| 17 | My first thought was that I was 320 duck-jumps behind and if I was ever going to make the state of shai-hai I would probably have to spend a whole weekend duck-jumping . |
| 18 | It seemed to me that it was wanting in every detail , but the objective facts are that I was five feet two and a half , weighed eight stone five , and had my fair share of acne . |
| 19 | For my part , I told her that I was sure Aisha had a lover and we began searching for proof . |
| 20 | I whispered to Catherine that I was sure Heathcliff had heard some of what she said . |
| 21 | For all the assurances from those around me that I was perfect Legion material , I could not accept that the prestigious French Foreign Legion would have any need of the services of somebody whose military prowess was earned more at the bar than in the field . |
| 22 | But when it was found that I was twenty days short of being twenty-one years older than Richard , legal adoption was ruled out . |
| 23 | As he said to us 42 years later , ‘ I was interested in some kind of sense , that I descended from Aaron , that I was some kind of high priest . |
| 24 | This afternoon — I arrived in Salisbury at around three thirty — when I entered my address in her register as ‘ Darlington Hall ’ , I could see her look at me with some trepidation , assuming no doubt that I was some gentleman used to such places as the Ritz or the Dorchester and that I would storm out of her guest house on being shown my room . |
| 25 | Mind you , he was also daunted by the fact that I was some years his senior . |
| 26 | ‘ How I wish that I were that dog ! ’ |
| 27 | if she 's not doing that she 's winding wool ready , she does |
| 28 | Amy confesses that she 's concerned Pushkin might have Aids . |
| 29 | The lights are always there so that Mrs Thatcher , at whatever hour , may choose to be seen on TV sweeping through saying nothing , thus demonstrating that she is Prime Minister and going busily about the nation 's business . |
| 30 | Mr Blair-Gould said : ‘ The prosecution clearly suggest … that she is some kind of dreadful rebel on a crusade against censorship . ’ |