Example sentences of "be [pron] i [am/are] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are who they are , and I am who I am — the gulf appears unbridgeable . |
| 2 | The Latin motto inscribed over the giant fireplace reads : ‘ Ego sum qui sum ’ — ‘ I am who I am ’ or ‘ You take me as I am ’ . |
| 3 | He appeared to Moses as " Yahweh " ( " I am who I am " , Exodus 3:14 ) , and later on as " Yahweh your God , who brought you out of the land of Egypt " ( Exodus 20:2 ) . |
| 4 | I am who I am , right now , this minute , and if you ca n't see who that person is — then to hell with you ! ’ she renounced and hobbled away to the nearest stool . |
| 5 | Twelve , thirteen and fourteen are something I 'm not very aut fait with as regards tutors I 'm not anyway is the interim report that goes out after |
| 6 | Yeah , well , thank you Chairman , I I I 'm erm er , I must admit , I 'm I I am think long and and and er think deep really , about er , you know , changes such as this , but I I also er , er have to run my own businesses , and er , I just er , I think we have experienced a water-shed , it 's coincided to some extent with the change of administration and then during the nineteen eighties , we had to a boom in this county , we had the the opportunity and I never er ever er , been against that principle , of er , of er , using our actual receipts we have hidden reserves , we we talked about the reserves of twenty nine million pounds here , for the er , erm , we have er er , assets of twenty nine million , in an earlier paper . |
| 7 | Yes I I 'm I I 'm deliberately using that that sort of language because I think I think that that is the suggestion in the future . |
| 8 | And I 'm I 'm I I 'm I 'm delighted er I shall be encouraging them to pay up promptly . |
| 9 | If I 'm going to be associated with someone , it 's got to be somebody I 'm proud of . |
| 10 | ‘ I want to be who I am . ’ |
| 11 | Even knowing that I shall never be so stupid as to be vain about it , but be grateful , be terribly glad ( especially after this ) to be alive , to be who I am — Miranda , and unique . |
| 12 | Safe rave tabs — could this be what I 'm looking for ? |
| 13 | ‘ History is going to be my subject — modern history — Of course it 's a frightfully easy degree , but it happens to be what I 'm most interested in ’ ( even as she was uttering the words she was aghast ) , ‘ that , and literature naturally , and political journalism . ’ |
| 14 | Yes I do find that there 's a general thread , an an an and and one would expect that , what I 'm what I 'm guarding against is taking too much notice of precise quotes from from from P P G thirteen . |
| 15 | cos you 're far too near whe wha I 'm what I 'm doing . |
| 16 | At home in Darlington , he said : ‘ It 's the first time in my life I have actually enjoyed being who I am . |
| 17 | Simon had n't inherited yet ; the house was entailed of course and as there was no direct male heir ( my being what I am ) it looked as if it were going to some cousin overseas , only later it became known that Mary had had a posthumous son : he 's still a minor — here 's another member of my family whom I have n't met , I seem to have an assortment . |
| 18 | I am what I am . |
| 19 | … This ‘ me ’ , that is to say , the soul by which I am what I am , is entirely distinct from body … and even if the body were not , the soul would not cease to be what it is . ’ |
| 20 | And I am what I am by the grace of God . |
| 21 | I am what I am , and that is fine . |
| 22 | For the believer who understands this , ‘ By God 's grace I am what I am ’ is never pious rhetoric : ‘ There but for the grace of God go I ’ is as realistic a statement as any we ever make . |
| 23 | That I am what I am . |
| 24 | I am what I am … |
| 25 | I am what I am . |
| 26 | I am what I am , and I would n't want to change my identity — nobody does when it comes down to it . ’ |
| 27 | I am what I am and I represent the Queen through the Lieutenancy |
| 28 | Novelty records are what I 'm really into at the moment . |
| 29 | For example , the word ‘ of ’ has the weak form in the following sentence : ‘ I 'm fond of chips ’ but when it comes at the end of the sentence , as in the following example , it has the strong form : ‘ Chips are what I 'm fond of ’ Many of the words given below ( particularly the first nine ) never occur at the end of a sentence , e.g. ‘ the ’ , ‘ your ’ . |
| 30 | half seven bus , and there was me waking at ten past seven picked him up fucking dinner and here 's me I 'm away in here to waken up . |