Example sentences of "i be [num] of [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I know what the public wants because I am one of them . ’ |
| 2 | And now I am one of them , Nuadu thought . |
| 3 | I am one of them , white or at least sky-grey , with pub rug , and ashen arm on the Fiasco doorjamb , unsmiling at the traffic light , fat-brained with abuse — but holding money . |
| 4 | With regard to having sympathy for them , I would say to the hon. Gentleman that I am one of them . |
| 5 | I 'm one of them . |
| 6 | There 's only two members of staff who are paid monthly by cheque and I 'm one of them . |
| 7 | But beauty is n't , the say beauty is only skin deep , but what about the million people who live in this country who are dealing with siriasis , for whom , that they 'll , they 'll live their life with no cure , no prospect of cure and er those are people who we only wish , I 'm one of them , er , I also run a self help group in Ayrshire and there are a great many of us who would like to , I think extend a more , more of an understanding to the general public , because its not how we regard ourselves |
| 8 | Because I 'm one of them . |
| 9 | I 'm one of them . |
| 10 | But I 'm one of them , he thought . |
| 11 | Not a party , I suppose , but she and Bill are having some people over tomorrow evening , and I 'm one of them . ’ |
| 12 | I 'm one of them . |
| 13 | No I 'm one of them people with no bloody arms ! |
| 14 | Dennis Lloyd and I were two of them , and the third was Desmond ( now Lord ) Plummer , who was an estate agent and surveyor and an expert on rent restriction . |
| 15 | Later , when I was more familiar with the beliefs and practices of the movement and had ‘ learned the language ’ , I would interact with the Moonies as though I were one of them , and , although I never pretended that I accepted their beliefs or that I was anything other than a sociologist studying the movement , members who did not know me would mistake me for a member — the Moonies themselves were no longer ‘ translating ’ for me when we were interacting . |
| 16 | At a great mass meeting at the Shwe Dagon Pagoda in January 1946 , some twenty thousand people attended to hear him speak , I being one of them . |
| 17 | Most young readers , and I was one of them , were bored by the seeming ponderousness of so much of the narration and probably gave up too soon to grasp the understanding of the American Indian mind it offers and the rapport that can be achieved with an understanding white man , here the legendary ‘ Hawkeye ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ I was one of them , I do n't mind admitting , ’ says Philip Swallow . |
| 19 | He enjoyed finding people to argue with and , recently arrived as the headmaster of the local grammar school , I was one of them . |
| 20 | ‘ Poor Mangan , ’ Father Poole would sigh , ‘ the street-arabs gave him an awful time — and I was one of them , God forgive me . ’ |
| 21 | ALL THOSE who doubted , and I was one of them , the existence of the exploding rats , find themselves confounded . |
| 22 | In my mind I was one of them and there was no way that I was going to make a living from carrying out painful experiments on friends . |
| 23 | Yesterday I was one of them , was n't I ? |
| 24 | And I was one of them . |
| 25 | ‘ Given that I was one of them it came down to a choice between Gower and Gatting . |
| 26 | It ended up serving four generously — the fact that I was three of them was particularly gratifying . |