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Example sentences of "[pers pn] be as " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	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 .
2	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 .
3	I desired you and — how shall we put it — I am as they used to say a little bit priapic . ’
4	‘ 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 . ’
5	I am as I am , a woman of my times , and I wo n't pretend .
6	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 .
7	I am as I am through the choices I have made , and I will not whine at fate . ’
8	You know I am as well do n't you ?
9	What she was doing is she was talking as a person who 's got a genuine love of the theatre as we all have that 's what were doing here looking for solutions now can I 'm I 'm as I said I 'm not assassinating your character now but you 're being very intimidating in the way that your talking to people . .
10	He 's got me in such a state that I 'm as useless as he says I am . "
11	I 'm just hoping that I could learn as I 'm as I 'm earning you know .
12	To be fair , I was as opposed to the idea as he was , though not for the same reason .
13	We duly met , and I was as before , astonished to find how much interest he could take , by clearing his mind of more pressing matters , in a subject not obviously familiar to him .
14	Well , there was a porter there , called Len and he , he was eighteen and er of course you know well I I was as I said sixteen , so he was a bit older than me but he , whilst he was at Needham he said well when I 'm eighteen I 'll get my calling up papers .
15	I was just stupid but I was as I say , since Oct erm when was it ?
16	Swift ye are as streams and soundless as the dew fall ,
17	‘ Well , keel-haul me fer a Spanisher , ’ Susan exclaimed , ‘ ye 're as scurvy a shipment o ’ cut-throats as any that e'er sailed the Main .
18	It is not unknown to have ballast on a spar tip to even out the dynamic balance , and , if you are as well prepared as the Peacocks , you 'll have spare spars handy which will have different flexibility to try against the breeze of the day .
19	I can see you are as addicted to knitting as the rest of us , by the fact that you say Murphy 's Law operates every day !
20	Coupled with these practices are plea-bargaining ( negotiating a guilty plea in return for being charged with a less serious offence ) and ‘ judicious ’ judicial decisions ( which take as much notice of who you are as they do of what you have apparently done ) .
21	There you are as we have it again .
22	Well there you are as we have them there now .
23	There you are as we have it again .
24	‘ Distance will not save them , if you are as I am . ’
25	wha what 's what would your opinion be as as a church-comer would you be as we do n't know whether the Archbishop really said it cos it 's printed in the Sun for heaven 's sake .
26	Perhaps she did trick me but , well , I can see why she was frantic and why she 's as she is . ’
27	She 's as good as here .
28	She realizes that she is as yet too selfish to be truly creative and puts off her artistic endeavours for the time being so that she can first learn the more humble task of interpretation .
29	And well Miss Clark might remember I mean she is as you say probably one of the oldest people and perhaps Miss could rattle her brains a little .
30	Seeing this stranger among the gleaners Boaz asks his foreman about Ruth , and she is as we 've mentioned , she , he talks about her diligence , about her respectful ways , about her , her consideration for other and Boaz offers to her , three things , he offers to her guidance he says , do n't go anywhere else , you stay here .