Example sentences of "be [noun prp] [conj] you " in BNC.
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| 1 | If what ( 102 ) entailed was : ( 104 ) You are Napoleon and you are socially superior to ( or socially distant from ) me , the speaker Then ( 105 ) would have to have one reading under which it meant ( 106 ) , which it clearly does not have : ( 105 ) Vous n'etes pas Napoleon ( 106 ) You are Napoleon , and you are not socially superior to ( or socially distant from ) me , the speaker Exactly the same , and additional , arguments can be shown to hold for the complex honorifics of " exotic " languages . |
| 2 | I 'm Dickon and you must be Miss Mary . |
| 3 | Hi everybody out there , I 'm Carl and you know what ? |
| 4 | Hi everybody out there , I 'm Carl and you know what ? |
| 5 | No no no I 'm Dave and you 're Alan . |
| 6 | You ca n't be Walter until you 're about seventy-five in my view . |
| 7 | This , however , is a lesson to the Smashing Pumpkins and Alice In Chains of this world that you can be '70s , you can smother your records with guitars and you can play loud like you were Hendrix but you do n't necessarily have to be boring , or totally lumbering to do it . |
| 8 | the postcode is Guildford and you 've got Aldershot or there 's and there 's another one that is three different cou another one |
| 9 | It is Magnus And you 'd better believe it |
| 10 | I said , well the important thing is Jan if you are like this you obviously did n't like , there 's no way I 'm going to meet her you 're obviously thinking it over I said so the first thing you 've got ta do is turn up on Monday and meet her cos erm , then well you 'll know . |
| 11 | He said ’ It 's Bassett and you love it . |
| 12 | Two pictures and a map countries it 's Africa so you 're you 're gon na do quite well Ruthy . |
| 13 | You know how it is Elsie when you go to the show in August and they have those horses jumping and you are waiting for one of the riders to fall off . |
| 14 | Like if you look like er Woking , you 're W he 's Woking and you 're Enfield . |
| 15 | Yes , I said , look at them crows , he says to me , they know it 's Sunday because you 'd never shoot on a Sunday . |
| 16 | Well Billy 's name 's Billy and you know we was writing it on the floor just after we found that out his second name , and , and they said B J ! |
| 17 | My name 's Jay and you 're a slag ! |
| 18 | Say look it 's Kath if you have any problems ring us . |
| 19 | No , it 's Greg and you that got me on to saying that . |
| 20 | Right there 's erm it 's a tin of fruit salad but I 've put in some er kiwi and grapes so it 's fresh fruit , it 's in its own juice , so it 's not in a heavy thick juice , there 's Viennetta or you can have a bit of each |
| 21 | What he really meant was ‘ I 've looked you up in Who 's Who and you 're not there . |
| 22 | He rings you up and goes he goes hello it 's Jonathan and you go oh right hello Jonathan and he does n't say anything so you talk to him for about half an hour or so and then you go alright Jonathan , better go , you know and then he goes no no I 've got something to tell you and you go oh alright what is it then and he goes I ca n't remember it man , just talk to me for a bit longer and I 'll remember it then and it goes on like that for hours and hours and it 's so boring . |
| 23 | ‘ In the house at home , your father was Magnus , Miss Trunchbull was Agatha and you were Jenny . |
| 24 | ‘ Anyway , I thought it was Canada where you studied . ’ |
| 25 | I had no idea that it was Martin until you told me that morning . |
| 26 | ‘ And where was Nicola when you were telling her husband all this ? ’ asked Dexter . |
| 27 | I mean , it was Wednesday before you lot started stirring things up and this was Friday … ’ |
| 28 | He was so strong a character — and he meant so much to me — that although it 's many many years since I worked with him , he was in a way always there — it has been a strength in reserve — that there was Basil if you needed him . |