Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then your feelings for me are as mine for you ? ’ he asked softly . |
| 2 | Half of them are on it anyway . |
| 3 | The half of them are on my rent-roll anyway . ’ |
| 4 | Though most of them are to my boring straight tastes profoundly unerotic , the process is interesting none the less and I have a new hero : the Earl of Rochester . |
| 5 | ‘ A lot of them are about you . |
| 6 | Most of them are in it just for the bylines and the booze , you know . |
| 7 | What have I been to him ? ’ |
| 8 | Admittedly there 's nothing else as inane as the tale of Froggie and Miss Mousey among the 13 tracks on Good As I Been To You ( Columbia ) — but neither is there anything actually written by Dylan . |
| 9 | But it 's the difference between the wheezing , cracked , crumbling voice on ‘ Good As I Been To You ’ and the supine , delicate wonderment of Young 's voice on ‘ Harvest Moon ’ which marks the astonishing chasm between the two albums . |
| 10 | I was met by a very respectful group of Gordon Highlanders when I visted Aberdeen recently , when I said that I would have been on the line as well had I been in their position . |
| 11 | ‘ And you and I are on it together , Lily . |
| 12 | Erm I 'd like to refer to my page three or er section four in my conclusions because I think if I if I heard Professor Lock correctly I think he and I are at one in in a suggestion which is is put to you in in if you like without prejudice to the generality of what I have been saying in support of the council 's policy . |
| 13 | ‘ Both Deborah and I are at our wits ’ end . ’ |
| 14 | They 're agents Matt and I are in her team . |
| 15 | ‘ Look Karen , no one is sorrier than I am about what happened . |
| 16 | While I am about it , I had better apologise on behalf of a contributor , who was castigated by post for not looking up the meaning of a phrase that was , to him , mysterious . |
| 17 | I was slightly annoyed at Jamie saying anything , even jokingly , about me going to the toilet ; he knows how sensitive I am about it . |
| 18 | ‘ There 's sorry I am about your mam , would have come to the funeral if I had n't had to work , mind . ’ |
| 19 | I am about his business and must accomplish it as best I may . |
| 20 | By the time we get to the jarv tracks I am over it , putting it down to a poor night 's sleep and a wearing day that have combined so that I am feeling the cold more than I normally do . |
| 21 | I am at her mercy at the moment though I keep her and pay her well and might look with justice for harder work from her , but when I am over my lying-in I will be behind her you can be sure . |
| 22 | ‘ I am through it , Headmaster , ’ he said , ‘ and out the other side . ’ |
| 23 | I am during his absence drawing as many native plants as I can , I mean branches of trees , some of which are very pretty . |
| 24 | I am sure some of the guys in my workshop think I am off my trolley . |
| 25 | And Miss Plum walks through the playground carrying two heavy bags , and in a flash I am beside her , smiling a face full of teeth like Tom in a Tom and Jerry cartoon . |
| 26 | I am beside myself , fatally attracted to your photon display , lacking only a companion — |
| 27 | ‘ I am beside myself with annoyance and not at all in the mood to pander to stupidity . ’ |
| 28 | For example , how does it happen that I married a good Catholic at seventeen and here I am at thirty-something , childless ? |
| 29 | I am at her mercy at the moment though I keep her and pay her well and might look with justice for harder work from her , but when I am over my lying-in I will be behind her you can be sure . |
| 30 | I must admit this is the fence I do not want to jump , for though I know there are new novels that succeed , I am at something of a loss to describe , in reasonable critical terms , why they succeed . |