Example sentences of "[pers pn] be some kind [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You act like I 'm some kind of monster ! ’ |
| 2 | And the Gunners ' record signing , pilloried for his moment of madness in the battle of White Hart Lane a week ago , said : ‘ People in the street are going to look at me as if I 'm some kind of nutcase trying to put people out of the game . ’ |
| 3 | Then everyone will think I 'm some kind of spy anyway because it 's hardly going to fit in with my cover of being a moron . |
| 4 | She thought : I feel as if I 'm some kind of cake . |
| 5 | You think I 'm some kind of dumbo . |
| 6 | Why would you suppose that I 'm some kind of insomniac ? ’ |
| 7 | I 'm not going to bring the whole world down on us by telling my mother and father that I feel like a big spancelled goat going to college and having to come back here every night as if I were some kind of simpleton . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | To cast aspersions on the new revolutionaries was to put his own patriotism in question : ‘ if I 'd done that , Bill Casey , Jean Kirkpatrick ( the Ambassador to the United Nations ) and Cap Weinberger would have said I was some kind of a commie . ’ |
| 10 | Just because I had a bat and had played at school , they assumed I was some kind of expert . |
| 11 | To hear you talk , anyone would think I was some kind of wanton , a man-stealer . |
| 12 | About how I was some kind of prophet as far as he was concerned and he was desperate to have me Confirmed . |
| 13 | ‘ You are not going to have them say you are some kind of dickhead . ’ |
| 14 | All the kids at school think you 're some kind of heretic . ’ |
| 15 | She had no objection to working for her keep , but if Penry Vaughan went on treating her as if she were some kind of serf she 'd stick to plain , basic cooking from now on , she thought resentfully . |
| 16 | If you photographed a dead Marine with a poncho over his face and got paid for it , you were some kind of parasite . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Maybe she 's some kind of nut . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ You think she 's some kind of idiot ? ’ |
| 19 | Just because she 's read some trashy paperback she thinks she 's some kind of expert on the modus operandi . |
| 20 | Mr Blair-Gould said : ‘ The prosecution clearly suggest … that she is some kind of dreadful rebel on a crusade against censorship . ’ |
| 21 | She 'd be sitting at home waiting for this bloody man , who at best thought she was some kind of alien , and at worst , stark , staring mad . |
| 22 | She was some kind of a woman all right . |
| 23 | To hear him talk , anyone would think she was some kind of Jezebel on the make . |
| 24 | That he obviously imagined she was some kind of flighty , sex-starved man-eater ? |
| 25 | ‘ Anyone would think we were some kind of free education service , ’ grumbled Joyce , having disposed of the child and returned to her central eyrie . |
| 26 | Chapter 14 shows how experts used to have immunity on the ground that they were some kind of arbitrator , until that immunity was swept away in 1975 , but that it is still difficult to sue an expert . |
| 27 | Condensation is an epidemic on this estate and usually the tenants are blamed , as though it were some kind of social disease , not a structural defect . |
| 28 | That was another thing — it did n't help her to maintain her own sense of proportion when the rest of the world treated Luke Hunter as if he were some kind of royalty … |
| 29 | It was the odd way he was looking at her , almost as if he were some kind of predatory animal waiting to pounce . |
| 30 | But I would say it 's some kind of tribesman . ’ |