Example sentences of "be [art] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 He seems to think that it is fair that I should have first crack since I am the one who has carried the worms about for the last umpteen days .
2 If anyone can be said to deserve a holiday , she told herself firmly , then I am the one .
3 I am the one who is hurt .
4 I am the one who must thank you .
5 SMASHING PUMPKINS celebrate the release of their new single , ‘ I Am The One ’ , through Hut Records with a string of British shows this week .
6 ‘ Kirsty plays this real strong girl who does all the protecting and I am the one who gets protected .
7 You are lucky enough to have Bella here to teach you , and your mother also , and as you know , I have undertaken to instruct you in history , since I am the one who has seen such a lot of it , as it were face to face .
8 I am the one you wish to avoid , n'est-ce pas ? ’
9 However , he warned of the threat posed by the secession issue to the future of perestroika , commenting : " We have embarked on this path and I am the one who chose it .
10 I say that I am the one who brought it .
11 This time I am the one walking along the lane and he is the one standing outside the gate .
12 From a letter to Francesco Gonzaga , written in 1622 and published by A. Luzio , in which among others a self-portrait of Tintoretto is offered to him , Pittalunga argues that the Paris picture may have been the one mentioned and which formed part of Rubens 's estate .
13 He had been the one to persuade her brother , an alcoholic and addict , to flee New Orleans for the sobriety of the Midwest , where he kicked his bad habit .
14 Admittedly , she had been the one who left , but , in the end , he had been the one to do the getting-rid-of. poor Judi .
15 Admittedly , she had been the one who left , but , in the end , he had been the one to do the getting-rid-of. poor Judi .
16 At first , Douglas Hurd 's name had been the one most frequently mentioned , but by the weekend John Major 's was also being raised .
17 Once , in the distance , he saw a girl who might have been the one .
18 Rather unreasonably , I felt somewhat cheated for I had been the one to traipse around the town , forgetting all the preliminary work that others had done !
19 He had been the one to capture her , it was he who had stolen the Friar 's sack .
20 The move took senior ministers and Tory MPs by surprise as Mr Garel-Jones has been the one of the lynchpins of Mr Major 's administration .
21 I thought , if he 'd been the one arriving in my world instead of the other way around , he 'd have thought I was just as stupid !
22 Brown may have been the one who forced-down Heinz Ludemann in November 1942 , thereby ensuring RN228 would join the show circuit in 1991 !
23 Perhaps Diana felt that her mother had been ignored or should have been the one playing hostess .
24 The dufflecoat would have been the one he had worn when he first came to work at the Establishment .
25 I 've always been the one with the umbrella and raincoat , forced to stay indoors in the dark .
26 Rosie had been the one who had had to put her father to bed every night for eighteen months while her mother took refuge behind the facade of a sordid affair with her boss , a divorcee .
27 He was thinking that the night Minch had referred to must have been the one when he had made a plea to the powers that rule the skies where eagles fly .
28 In the end , he simply stared at her , shaking his head as if she had been the one to ask the question .
29 I 've always been the one that ends up just going without ’ ( Cohen , 1990 , p. 28 ) .
30 Of all the cricket biographies as yet unwritten , this seems to have been the one which had stored in it potentially the greatest degree of ‘ human interest ’ .
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