Example sentences of "be the [noun sg] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it says , I am the lady I make them . |
| 2 | It 's always in there , and er and I can remember walking around there and seeing the place where they make them , and her photograph 's outside and underneath it says , I am the lady I make them . |
| 3 | But I said I am the money I gave him his first flying lesson , I paid for it , like I bought his first three cars . |
| 4 | I might have been the butterfly I 'd watched enmeshed on the hanging geranium in Auntie 's backyard . |
| 5 | ‘ That 's always been the view I 've taken — it 's the Conservative Party 's view . ’ |
| 6 | It was just the shock of realising … of course , it must have been the killer I heard . |
| 7 | ‘ The two signs complement each other , but you are the twin I want , not Dana . ’ |
| 8 | You now standing on my right are the person I left on the bench , and you on my left are someone else , and neither of you can deceive me any longer . " |
| 9 | So if I like you , it ca n't be the angel I like . |
| 10 | You will be the friend I seek if you can address the situation of reconciling the issue of being a Jewish woman ( no longer at the age of unfulfilled hope ) who is married , and fights to be a feminist , and wishes to survive the crises of conscience that result . |
| 11 | It 'll be the way I laid it out . |
| 12 | And the whole thing turned out to be the shambles I knew it would . ’ |
| 13 | This not being the case I have benefited much from the peace and quiet and from the fresh air . |
| 14 | The white frilly aprons and mob caps clearly labelled those who had elected to become servants for the afternoon ; less easily identifiable were the spiv I 'd spotted earlier — with his slicked-back , Brylcreemed hair and sneer of a moustache — and the vampish creature dressed in black taffeta adorned with diamanté who had looked me up and down disdainfully . |
| 15 | Well , I 'll have to find a place to lay my cropped and weary head for the night , wo n't I. This is the bit I 've been trying not to think about . |
| 16 | I felt and this is the bit I like , I , I some I , I used to set this at one point in the examination question and ask people to guess which American president said it I 'll read , I 'll read it to you measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful if indispensable to the preservation of the constitution through the preservation of the nation just , I 'll just get the essence of that , measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful if indispensable to the preservation of the constitution through the preservation of the nation ninety percent put Richard Nixon er no one put Abraham Lincoln er cos he was one of the good guys right or wrong I assume this ground I could not feel that to the best of my ability I had even tried to preserve the if to save James Buchanan is essentially the Pontius Pilate of American politics he says yes these are very acute problems er and very difficult er and I 'd like to help but I 'm sorry I ca n't and I really do have to go off and wash my hands now erm and , you know , you carry on and when you 've resolved it tell me what you want me to do and I 'll , |
| 17 | That , I must confess , is the bit I do n't understand . |
| 18 | Hill said : ‘ This is the opportunity I have worked for and I would like to thank the team for putting their faith in me . |
| 19 | You can not point to a wave and say , ‘ that is the wave I rode ’ , as you can say , ‘ that is the mountain I climbed ’ . |
| 20 | you know and , and not only goes without the psychoanalyse , at least this is the sense I get not only about psychoanalyse , but also to sort of knocked out and , and er maybe that 's , maybe that 's trying to do and that was the point I also have n't read the book so I do n't know . |
| 21 | I am lonely yes , but my loneliness is the price I pay in order that the people of the World may look ahead to peace and freedom and to a decent standard of living for their children . ’ |
| 22 | What I think is happening , I find this interesting , people are rejecting the idea of the aesthetic , and I 'm not quite sure why ; I do n't know whether they think it 's elitist or whether they 've got no taste of their own , or what , I do n't know , but people read poems not as poems which convey aesthetic emotion , which is the way I tend to think about poems ultimately , but simply as ideological statements and political texts , or at least , things that give you some understanding of the way people thought or so on at the time … . |
| 23 | There are other ways to access this world , but utilising sexuality is the way I discovered we could — perhaps — manage to do so using the human nervous system . |
| 24 | Perhaps my problem is the way I perceived the first news of the crumbling of the old Europe ; sitting in hospital and festooned in drip feeds and stoned out of my mind on pethidine as I came round from an anaesthetic , I muzzily watched the news on the TV in the corner of my room and truly believed I was hallucinating as I saw kitchen choppers taking down the Berlin Wall ; after such a beginning to the thaw , how can I believe that as well as East Germany 's arrival in the West , Czechoslovakia is almost herself again . |
| 25 | This is the way I ask for referral , this is the way I service my client , this is what I do . |
| 26 | This is the way I ask for referral , this is the way I service my client , this is what I do . |
| 27 | Erm , depending on your relationship you have , if however , you keep a log of your interruptions erm , well this is the way I recommend you do it . |
| 28 | This is the way I know , and it is the only way I can write about but there are a hundred other ways to release and a hundred other ways for every intellect . |
| 29 | What matters to me most is the way I conduct myself . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Perhaps you would , but this is the way I 've done it . ’ |