Example sentences of "[pron] [be] a [noun] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had I been a father in my early twenties I would have been dreadful because there were so many things I still wanted to do . ’ |
| 2 | And whatever I try to tell them , they seem convinced I am a part of it . |
| 3 | In you ; I am a part of you . |
| 4 | ‘ I am a man of my word . |
| 5 | It makes me feel I have been prying into it all , I am a voyeur of their joint life . |
| 6 | There are no perimeters in that world that I can feel ; I am a trick of their fate , peripheral , unclassy , bored . |
| 7 | ‘ I am a MARTYR to my responsibilities , ’ cried Dame Edna , topping up the teapot . |
| 8 | ‘ I know I am a pin-up to lots of people , but I do n't consider myself pretty . |
| 9 | I am a creature of my Pen , Mr Ash , my Pen is the best of me , and I enclose a Poem , in earnest of my great goodwill towards you . |
| 10 | We will in fact be er I mean I advertise in the er I am a client of his and we will we will be looking at the same he will be a competitor of ours in some fields . |
| 11 | At first Johnson was contrite and ashamed , ‘ I am heart-broken , ’ he said in one of the first press reports ‘ I am a disgrace to myself and my country . |
| 12 | I am a stranger in my own home . ’ |
| 13 | I have n't yet married and am not in a rush to do so , so I suppose that in this regard I am a disappointment to my father , though I 'm sure he understands that it would be unfair for me to marry with my present commitment to athletics . |
| 14 | ‘ Groups like yours are a bit outside my experience , ’ he confided , ‘ and I need to understand a bit about what Miss Morgan did for a living . |
| 15 | I 'm a layman to you and you 're a layman to me in many senses , and therefore erm the , the , the fact that our students are in effect very often laymen is not something that detracts from their motivation to study , in many instances it 's something that gives it stimulus and underlines it . |
| 16 | I 've learnt I 'm a person in my own right , not just someone 's wife or mother and I have a right to be here and a right to pursue a career or studies . |
| 17 | I 'm a martyr to my bowels . |
| 18 | Well , I 'm , I 'm a supporter of it , which you know erm it , it strikes me being far more effective than other forms er of er explanation . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm a friend of hers . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm a friend of hers . |
| 21 | I 'm a friend of his . |
| 22 | But , but I had more to do with her than Evelyn but er from what little bits I 've gleaned , you know , er I 'm a bit into everything like , and I seem to think , I 've got a f strange feeling that she 's something to do with education and they 're worried about children not speaking properly eventu |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm a bit like you , Bob , ’ she said . |
| 24 | To our colleague from London , let me say I happen to be a boilermaker , not because I 'm a dinosaur with me head in the past , but because that happens to be the occupation that I follow and that 's what I am . |
| 25 | But I 'm a king to what I was . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm a prisoner in my own home — it 's a great worry — it gets me down . ’ |
| 27 | Nicola spoke over her shoulder — ‘ I 'm a prisoner in my own goddamn home ’ — her voice made uneven by emotion . |
| 28 | Fig 7 ) The intro from It 's Only Love is one of my personal favourites ( I 'm a sucker for anything that uses the old White Room ploy ! ) . |
| 29 | ‘ But I 'm a businesswoman in my own right , ’ Robyn continued determinedly , doing her best to ignore his mocking expression . |
| 30 | I 'm a bitch to him , I tell him , I say you love yourself James . |