Example sentences of "be the [noun] [pers pn] " 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 | ‘ Bowe has always said that I am the man he wants more than anybody and now that I am giving him the perfect opportunity , he is shying away from it . |
| 5 | ‘ For as long as I am the champion I will not recognise or defend or fight for their dishonoured belt . ’ |
| 6 | I always know where I am the instant I 'm awake . |
| 7 | Gust becos I cud not spel It did not mean I was daft When the boys in school red my riting Some of them laffed But now I am the dictater They have to rite like me Utherwise they can not pas Ther GCSE Some of the girls wer ok But those who laffed a lot Have al bean rownded up And have recintly bean shot The teecher who corrected my speling As not been shot at al But four the last fifteen howers As bean standing up against a wal He has to stand ther until he can spel Figgymisgrugifooniyn the rite way I think he will stand ther forever I just inventid it today |
| 8 | I am the captain you will not obey . |
| 9 | I am the enemy you killed , my friend |
| 10 | I might have been the butterfly I 'd watched enmeshed on the hanging geranium in Auntie 's backyard . |
| 11 | And it 's never been the road it was . |
| 12 | It had been Campion Price , her father , who , disappointed that his firstborn had not been the male he 'd intended naming after his own father , had insisted she bore the feminine version of that name — Georgina . |
| 13 | It 's just that while we 've been together it 's been the activity you 've indulged in most . |
| 14 | He told MPs rising unemployment of the recession have been the price we have had to pay to get inflation down . |
| 15 | After all , he had not been the ogre she had expected him to be . |
| 16 | A feature of the role has been the opportunity it has provided for closer liaison between the Catholic Education Commission and the Department of Education . |
| 17 | All she had taken out of Ireland when she had fled had been the money she had made there and her trade — and her trade was that of a Madam . |
| 18 | To which I replied , ‘ This is not the substance of what he said , and if it had been the substance he would have divided the Cabinet ’ ' ( 15 December 1964 ) . |
| 19 | If this had been the case I may possibly have been offered some cosmetic surgery , but this wo n't happen because it 's a natural part of pregnancy . |
| 20 | If he had saved anything he would have changed character and would hardly have been the man she loved . |
| 21 | It had been the day he had gone to see about a job he had heard of for a general handyman who had some experience with animals . |
| 22 | The opportunity , rather , is this : apart from lean production and quality control , one of the big domestic advantages of the best Japanese manufacturers has been the way they garner information within their own firm and use it to take decisions . |
| 23 | Wife Kath , 48 , said : ‘ He loved his cricket and that would have been the way he wanted to go — playing the game he loved . ’ |
| 24 | After all , if things had really been the way she said , would n't Matthew have rung up and tried to explain ? |
| 25 | One of the particularly tragic consequences of the war has been the way it has distracted attention from events in the USSR and Eastern Europe , just when it was needed most . |
| 26 | It does have some impact I 'm sure that you 've been the training session and you thought it 's really good , really got a lot out of it and you 're quite surprised to see someone sitting next to you did n't like that much at all , you thought hmm wonder why that is because I found the content really interesting and it could have been the content matter did n't really sort of do anything for the people , it could have been the way it was put together , put over and the way it was actually structured . |
| 27 | All my has been the way it should . |
| 28 | Had Waddell 's trial in Edinburgh not been the farce it was , had he been found guilty of the murder of Mrs Ross as he should have been and sentenced by Lord Robertson to life imprisonment , as he should have been , it would seem likely that Mrs Chipperfield would be alive today . |
| 29 | Later , there had been the scene she did n't want now to remember : |
| 30 | The job was important to her ; it had been the goal she had set herself after her father died so tragically ten years ago when she was seventeen . |