Example sentences of "[pron] be that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | anything in my life and then I am that boy |
| 2 | Losing his temper , Howard roared , ‘ I am that man . |
| 3 | J E Nicholson ( Points of View , 10 February ) can stop wondering who ‘ the man on the tricycle is and where he is going ’ , as I am that man . |
| 4 | I am that specialist . ’ |
| 5 | I wish you and your staff to know how sorry I am that Punch is to be no more . |
| 6 | Oh you 're , you 're that bit further , well I suppose I 'm that bit further really |
| 7 | Right I 'm that first I 'm that function , Mhm . |
| 8 | But I 'm that wee bit bigger — |
| 9 | I 'm that chocolate . |
| 10 | If a human observer sets out to interpret the " emotions " of a rat what else can he do except say of himself : " Now if I were that rat , how should I feel ? " |
| 11 | ‘ How I wish that I were that dog ! ’ |
| 12 | Everyone always wants to knock a man off the top — I know , I was that man . |
| 13 | I am now sure I was that boy in an earlier life . |
| 14 | I have rarely been angrier than I was that day . |
| 15 | I was that content with being a mother I 'd decided I did n't want a job until my daughter went to secondary school . |
| 16 | ‘ The fact is , I was that baby , and I know I was born here twenty years ago — ’ |
| 17 | ‘ When I was that age , I slunk about in an agony of embarrassment in case anybody looked at me . ’ |
| 18 | I took part in the obstacle course which when I was that age I found it difficult . |
| 19 | ‘ You see , Jinkwa , ’ he concluded inevitably , ‘ I was that soldier . ’ |
| 20 | Which is the Dutch which is that half . |
| 21 | Which is that way is n't it ? |
| 22 | The story of Richard III in particular sets up the basic rule of the tragedy principle within representation , which is that fate must be made physical on the body . |
| 23 | This bank might be set to one as well or zero and then you sum those together which is that summation there , or you can do a product there 's a product there . |
| 24 | And I would also like to add yet another ‘ reason ’ to the already formidable pile , which is that Stavrogin intends a ‘ challenge to society ’ . |
| 25 | But nothing , and certainly not articulating his words ‘ cheerfully and artlessly ’ , can muffle Tikhon 's diagnosis which is that Stavrogin suffers from ‘ indifference ’ . |
| 26 | It is only possible to lay down general rules , perhaps the most important of which is that grass , and more especially clover , must always be sown early enough in the growing season to have become fairly established before the continuous wet conditions of winter set in . |
| 27 | Which is that Quinn appears to have established some kind of wary empathy with this animal Zack . |
| 28 | These chemicals are , by general definition , detergents although the term has now come to be restricted to a group of synthetic chemicals which have very specific effects the result of which is that dirt is taken into suspension in a stable form that allows it to be rinsed away . |
| 29 | Right , now the other thing is that what Jim 's doing which is that programme , how is that coming along ? |
| 30 | Company A , dealers on the Metal Exchange , knowingly assisted an employee of the plaintiffs to engage in fraudulent trading , the result of which was that Company A became exposed to liabilities of more than £6.5m . |