Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [prep] [pers pn] " 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 ‘ A lot of them are about you .
4 Most of them are in it just for the bylines and the booze , you know .
5 What have I been to him ? ’
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 ‘ And you and I are on it together , Lily .
9 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 .
10 I was slightly annoyed at Jamie saying anything , even jokingly , about me going to the toilet ; he knows how sensitive I am about it .
11 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 .
12 I am through it , Headmaster , ’ he said , ‘ and out the other side . ’
13 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 .
14 I am as you probably know a huge supporter of Sunday trading .
15 I am as you would say a cobbler .
16 I am above them , so high I hear the small birds sing below me .
17 I know what I am to him .
18 So she began with praise : — the more I think on it Ellen the more beholden I am to you for how you have cared for Oreste and the more fortunate .
19 For some time it has been evident that all I am to you is a vessel to receive your seed .
20 To show you how grateful I am to you , I 'm offering to explain how to make it — then you will be able to destroy all your enemies ! ’
21 See how good I am to you ?
22 Not half as much as I am of you ! thought Henry , as he ran his eyes down the rest of the manuscript ( she must have written it before going to sleep ) .
23 I think perhaps I must try never to go away unless with you — And yet I know when you are out at supper with others , that you are all the time thinking of me , as I am of you ( and last evening in the hansom !
24 How glad I am for them !
25 I can see how hopelessly unsuitable I am for you ; all I ever do is misunderstand what you say , and weep .
26 " But think how good I am for you .
27 Know I am with thee always .
28 No but I was saying that , Thou I am with thee always , that it would n't say
29 But alone I am with him ; dipping the quill ,
30 Occasionally she has behaved like this when I am with her , and my mother out .
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