Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The awkward ones for me are when they start throwing stuff like er |
| 2 | ‘ Seven or eight hundred years of sewers , underground rivers , tunnels , and nobody knows where half of them are until they 're excavating or making changes , as they were at the Priory . |
| 3 | it does n't matter because all of them are as it happens fairly er new and indeed as Kevin says quite correctly , dry because they have n't been used for a long time . |
| 4 | ‘ Just shows you how much more important I am than them , does n't it ? ’ she laughed . |
| 5 | Yes I am 'cause I want some . |
| 6 | But I am because we dominated in so many respects — especially at the line-out — and had enough ball to have won . |
| 7 | He 's more likely to die than I am because he loves life , his mother tells me so . |
| 8 | ‘ He thinks the ministry is an affectation and a waste of time , and on the other hand he thinks priests should be very good , and he does n't think I am because he 's known me for so long , so he 's annoyed with me . |
| 9 | He tells me to stay where I am because he 's coming to fetch me . |
| 10 | ‘ Actually , I 'm just happy to be where I am because after that early problem we only had 14 minutes of running , so it was a short session . ’ |
| 11 | I am because I 'm being kept in here and I might wan na stay |
| 12 | I am supposing we can include the patient as a real conscious person as ‘ part ’ of the nursing activity . |
| 13 | I well I 'm on about doing some stuff I am cos I ca n't get , ca n't find what I want , build my own yeah |
| 14 | I am cos Mr erm said I could |
| 15 | That is what a T four bacteria is for and that 's what I am for , and I would suggest y ultimately what you are for as well , and this is why in the end erm nature will cast us aside . |
| 16 | I am for all the bloody rice in China . |
| 17 | I do n't want you to give me your answers now , I am as it were giving you the opportunity now , over lunch , to consider this matter . |
| 18 | I desired you and — how shall we put it — I am as they used to say a little bit priapic . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I am as well read as the best scholars of the world , and I use the language of the gods and the verses of the poets , ’ said Taliesin , ‘ but I will try to speak more simply in future . ’ |
| 20 | I am as I am , a woman of my times , and I wo n't pretend . |
| 21 | It is as much about who I am as it is about how I look , and about how difficult it is for women to separate the two . |
| 22 | I am as I am through the choices I have made , and I will not whine at fate . ’ |
| 23 | You know I am as well do n't you ? |
| 24 | HAMLET : … for you yourself , sir , should be as old as I am if like a crab you could go backward . |
| 25 | I am if they put houses up there yes . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , Miss Abbott , you know where I am if you need me . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'll tell you where I am if you 'll tell me what your lucky number is . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ You would be a braver man than I am if you went into our dressing room and told the players that was how you thought of them , ’ said Robertson , rebuking the journalist who ventured the opinion that any squad minus nine of its original complement was necessarily sub-standard . |
| 29 | And I am if at five minutes to five , or five minutes to leaving off time whatever it was and you would n't say well we 'll get ready to go home you had to pick a half a link up make it into a staple and throw it in the box . |
| 30 | I am if we can get a sitter . |