Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I said Lesley , she says to me are you in agreement with her ? |
| 2 | Perhaps in another month or so I will find I am one among 50 runners for the job . ’ |
| 3 | I am one in a row of specimens . |
| 4 | You will see I am something of a democrat . ’ |
| 5 | I do n't mind telling you , I am something of an expert at swimming myself , and I know some smashing spots for a jolly good sssplash up . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I am nothing of the sort ! |
| 7 | I am nothing but a stomach of cheap tin , empty but for the clanking of a few tin cans which have been squashed by a gargantuan hand and thrown together . |
| 8 | ‘ I am nothing without this little flat . |
| 9 | It is puzzling when people say I write like this one and that one and all such different kinds of writers and so many of them , and it makes me feel I am nothing in myself . ’ |
| 10 | How dare you lay claim to me , as if I am yours for the taking ? ’ |
| 11 | I am yours from night to day , from day to night . ’ |
| 12 | With the Ellis family finances being in a perpetual state of crisis , I 'm something of an expert in the subject of raising an overdraft . ’ |
| 13 | I still do n't believe in God but now I 'm something of a cross between a Buddhist and a Quaker with pantheist leanings . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm one for the ready , Mr Five Per Cent , ’ he said to me in his amusing way . ’ |
| 15 | I 'm nothing but a small-time gangster 's moll . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm nothing but a nuisance to you . |
| 17 | I 'm nothing but ! |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm nothing at all to you except an unwelcome visitor . ’ |
| 19 | No I do n't actually cos I 'm nothing like her . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm someone like you . |
| 21 | Well , I 'm none of those things ! |
| 22 | I 'm none of them . |
| 23 | But no one here has treated me as though I were anything but a permanent staff member , so do n't have any worries on that score . ’ |
| 24 | Erm , erm , erm , I be your in your house |
| 25 | Even though as a graduate I was something of an oddity , I was absorbed into the background after a time and people treated me as one of them . |
| 26 | ‘ For many years people thought I was something of a rebel or a madman , ’ Annesley recalled . |
| 27 | I informed Mr Kagan that I was something of a heretic so far as the minutiae of the Jewish faith were concerned ; on the other hand , I said , I had never concealed that I was a loyal member of the faith , and so I would be happy to have the boy to tea and talk to him about Judaism in general terms . |
| 28 | I was something of a child prodigy . |
| 29 | So I was something of a godsend for her . |
| 30 | The only thing I was him with his poxy trainers on and no shoes . |