Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I am busy on my own work : I am part of a team , legging it around London , working undercover . ’ |
| 32 | I am mistress of this house and I have to see that all is well . ’ |
| 33 | I am bespoke in the evening , but the daytime is free , once I 've done my domestic chores . |
| 34 | ( I am Treasurer of the Scottish Cycling Council ( the Scottish ‘ arm ’ of the CTC ) , and I do quite a bit of cycling for leisure , including much of the Borders Region which is , in many ways , ideal for cycling ) . |
| 35 | I am clerk to the King 's Bench of the royal court of England . |
| 36 | I am clerk to Nether Wyresdale Parish Council in Scorton and , while I can not speak on behalf of either the Parish Council or the residents of the parish , I think it would be appropriate to discuss the possibility of Nether Wyresdale becoming part of Lancaster District . |
| 37 | ‘ Yes , I am kind of hairy . |
| 38 | I am Argol from the planet Tellenor in the constellation of the Bear . |
| 39 | ‘ I am Argol from the planet Tellenor in the constellation of the Bear . |
| 40 | As he approached , the Prince prepared to defend himself , but calmed when Allan said : ‘ I am Macdonald of Kingsburgh come to serve your Highness . ’ |
| 41 | I am Queen of Scots , not you . |
| 42 | BELVILLE : I did intend what you call the worst , but if I am master of myself and my own resolution , I find I love you beyond all your sex , and on my honour I will not attempt to force you to anything again . |
| 43 | I am King of England and henceforth must dedicate my life to my kingdom … |
| 44 | I am King of England — or so they tell me ! |
| 45 | And in John 19:21–22 : ‘ So the Jewish chief priests said to Pilate , ‘ You should not write ‘ King of the Jews ’ , but ‘ This man said : I am King of the Jews ’ ’ Pilate answered , ‘ What I have written , I have written ’ . ’ |
| 46 | I am chairman of the joint shop stewards committee in the RVH and also branch secretary of NUPE of north and west Belfast district . |
| 47 | I am chairman of the Africa committee of the British Refugee Council , so I have worked closely with refugees for a long time . |
| 48 | Also I am Khan of the Merkuts . ’ |
| 49 | ‘ I am not.fit for public Life , ’ he wrote from Bristol to his new friend John Thelwall , the radical lecturer ; ‘ yet the Light shall stream to a far distance from the taper in my cottage window ’ . |
| 50 | ‘ I am constable of this gate tower . |
| 51 | I am aswirl with him , with his pre-empting , his blackballing genes … |
| 52 | ‘ I am Prince of Wales , after all . ’ |
| 53 | a Scottish sailor marooned on the island of Juan Fernandez from 1704 until he was picked up by Captain Woodes Rogers 52 months later ; Woodes 's account of him gave Defoe the idea of Robinson Crusoe , and Cowper wrote a poem entitled ‘ Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk ’ , beginning ‘ I am monarch of all I survey ’ . |
| 54 | In his next letter Leslie told me that on that day he had been assigned ‘ a rather painful duty … from 4 o'clock this afternoon for 24 hours I am escort to an officer under close arrest , a captain , I believe . |
| 55 | ‘ I am daughter to Maclean of Treshnish . |
| 56 | ‘ You are sure about this , my lady — that I am daughter to the duke your husband ? ’ |
| 57 | I am bone of her bone |
| 58 | I am bone of her bone , |
| 59 | But , interestingly , she treats ‘ I am Duchess of Malfi still ’ not as a ringing , operatic cry but as a simple statement of fact . |
| 60 | " I am Captain of Owsla . |