Example sentences of "[am/are] [pron] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A mere few days are nothing when we 've already survived so much ! " |
| 2 | So good am I that I turn round on the runners to photograph Tony . |
| 3 | ‘ What am I that you hate so much ? ’ |
| 4 | So am I and we share the same gift of glimpsing the future . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I am his because he created me ! |
| 8 | Experience the atmosphere and feelings that are yours when you own and sail the superlative Swan 46 . |
| 9 | But young people now realise that certain buildings , for instance , are theirs and they do n't want them ruined . |
| 10 | Um , as we know from studies of re story telling , as we know from studies of memories for story structure and recall , memories for everyday events mm there 's er a substantial way in which memories are scripted , which memories um seem to fit a schemer , which memories ah are n't stored as a literal description of something but they 're something that we re-construct as we tell them . |
| 11 | We 're nothing , of ourselves we might have thought we had but it was of no value whatsoever , but he took us , he says , now you 're something because you belong to me . |
| 12 | Oh I would of thought that she would of put them in if you had n't paid your subs , you know you 're not a member are you unless you 've paid your subs |
| 13 | Who are you and what do you want here ? ’ |
| 14 | Then , with a rough , abrupt air , he said , " Who are you and what do you want ? " |
| 15 | because er , when they say how old are you and you say forty nine , they say oh well we , we , we were really looking for somebody a bit younger |
| 16 | huh , I could n't believe it , I mean he 's been that thick and she says how old are you and he says thirty five , when she 's gone , when he 's gone she said blimey I thought he was forty five did n't ya ? , she said yeah , I said he ai n't wearing very well is he ? , then this woman come in and she was , she 'd had an operation and one of her stitches had n't dissolved and she said I have a shower instead of a bath , perhaps that 's why and Sue says yes that 's why because you need water to dissolve a stitch , so any way she said to her how old are you , she says thirty seven and Sue says |
| 17 | Well she phoned and umm asked how Oliver was and everything and just said oh how are you and I said oh I 've not been feeling very well over the weekend . |
| 18 | And who are you and I to tell God what his purpose is , and his pattern 's gon na be ? |
| 19 | Why are you and I linked ? ’ |
| 20 | Bertie Wooster , where are you when we need you ? |
| 21 | Blessed are you when you suffer insults and persecution and cowardliness of every kind from my face exult and be glad for you have a rich reward in heaven in the same way as they persecuted the prophets who bore you . |
| 22 | They 'll be dead in ten minutes and so are we if we do n't get out by then . ’ |
| 23 | Council elections are something that we need to look at in other areas . |
| 24 | Condoms are something that everyone uses every day . |
| 25 | People like Niall , like Michael Morrissey , who do know what it is like to be poor and shat on , the bottom of the whole U.K. heap , they know I 'm nothing when they set eyes on me . |
| 26 | So in earnest are they that they do n't even recognise that being in earnest is the act . |
| 27 | Who are they and what do they want ? ’ |
| 28 | You must talk this subject through very fully indeed with the man concerned , establishing which boundary hedges are his and which belong to his neighbours . |
| 29 | Those are mine and I bought this book |
| 30 | and they 're going the flares are us and he goes bloody southern bastards |