Example sentences of "i [be] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is an equally strong academic and literary tradition which assumes the opposite ; in Flaubert 's words : " It is like body and soul : form and content to me are one . |
| 2 | Guild members are not content with the position in the cooperative world which may be summed up in the saying of the man ‘ My wife and I are one , and I am that one ’ . |
| 3 | Perhaps in another month or so I will find I am one among 50 runners for the job . ’ |
| 4 | And yet I am one who hopes to care |
| 5 | I should know , I am one ! , |
| 6 | SMASHING PUMPKINS : I Am One |
| 7 | There are others ( amongst whom I am one ) who would argue that we need to give young children the opportunity to develop fully at their own pace and in their own individual ways . |
| 8 | I am one in a row of specimens . |
| 9 | Mind you , I have nothing against men — after all , I am one myself — but in the RAF there were too many of them . |
| 10 | I am one . |
| 11 | ‘ That 's because I am one , ’ I answered . |
| 12 | I had to pay over £1,000 to the Anne Charlton Lodge , Redcar , a home caring for Multiple Sclerosis sufferers , of which I am one . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm one for the ready , Mr Five Per Cent , ’ he said to me in his amusing way . ’ |
| 14 | In reality , I feel I 'm one up of I do n't come out in tears . ’ |
| 15 | Yet by my Poverty I think I 'm one . |
| 16 | I 'm not criticising guitar players — after all , I 'm one myself and not in a position to be judgmental . |
| 17 | I 'm one . |
| 18 | I 'm one . |
| 19 | Jan Indian-striped my cheek with lipstick and hopped on to the platform , turning to shout : ‘ They 'll think I 'm one too , Monica ! |
| 20 | I 'm one , for a start . |
| 21 | I 'm one . |
| 22 | I 'm Nigel I 'm Chief Executive of the National Charity Community of Transport which is based in Manchester , and it 's that last point which is really significant behind my question , and it concerns your new premises and , I 'm one it 's a question as to what your planning to do , and secondly , a request if you 're not , er , that you could provide within that some working space for people from out of town , to use when we 're in London , complete with things like , you know , coin operated fax machines , because I find I spend quite a lot of time in London , you have meetings on successive days , you have time to kill , and there 's no where sort of , comfortable to go and sit down and get on with some things . |
| 23 | I know because I 'm one . . |
| 24 | No I 'm one above you . |
| 25 | Even when I was a child , I behaved as if I were one . ’ |
| 26 | But I was one with the solitaries of the spirit , too : with St Teresa and St John of the Cross as well as with humbler dissidents like Jordi and one or two other men of the working class I had known in Spain , the young bank clerk I had met in Cordoba the previous spring , among the orange and lilac blossom of Las Tendillas , where we walked and whispered , hardly daring to look at one another , and separating at the sight of police . |
| 27 | As it happens , I was one . |
| 28 | A number of people had detected there was something amiss but these people — and I was one — believed that they erred by favouring not Labour but the Conservatives . |
| 29 | When I was one I ate a bun |
| 30 | The late Professor Ragnar Nurkse used to tell his students at Cambridge in the 1950s , of whom I was one , how important it was that Third World countries should develop their agriculture without resorting to the internal combustion engine . |