Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Now North Yorkshire County Council er I think in their statement look to erm to existing market towns to provide what little evidence they can up to justify fourteen hundred dwellings , er I think that 's again a simplistic approach because by definition the market now can seal them up wider catchment area , many of them are some distance from York , and the settlements concerned provide a service base for a number of surrounding villages , and therefore the actual specialities and services found within that particular settlement are greater than one would achieve if it did not have a large catchment area .
2 Well John and I are both Chair Person , are Co-Chair at the moment , erm
3 anything in my life and then I am that boy
4 Losing his temper , Howard roared , ‘ I am that man .
5 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 .
6 I am that specialist . ’
7 I wish you and your staff to know how sorry I am that Punch is to be no more .
8 According to the last good book I read , this means that I am half way through my time travel , my travel through time .
9 One more time my skin warms against his and reminds me that I am this person , not generic , wife of nothing .
10 I am this prisoner in my own house , you see .
11 HAVING ALREADY REFERRED to types of watercoloured paper and their manufacturer in the August issue , I am this month going to refer back to and expand upon certain areas .
12 I 've never been so indecisive as I am this time .
13 ‘ Your tone would seem to imply that I am some sort of Bluebeard who keeps her incarcerated .
14 He seems to think I am some sort of double-dealing rascal who is going to cheat him — "
15 Oh yes , I 'm all favour of dipping , but I want a safer dip for the operators .
16 Oh you 're , you 're that bit further , well I suppose I 'm that bit further really
17 Right I 'm that first I 'm that function , Mhm .
18 But I 'm that wee bit bigger —
19 I 'm that chocolate .
20 They probably think I 'm some sex craved monster .
21 ‘ You act like I 'm some kind of monster ! ’
22 And the Gunners ' record signing , pilloried for his moment of madness in the battle of White Hart Lane a week ago , said : ‘ People in the street are going to look at me as if I 'm some kind of nutcase trying to put people out of the game . ’
23 Then everyone will think I 'm some kind of spy anyway because it 's hardly going to fit in with my cover of being a moron .
24 She thought : I feel as if I 'm some kind of cake .
25 You think I 'm some kind of dumbo .
26 Why would you suppose that I 'm some kind of insomniac ? ’
27 ‘ You 're asking me if I 'm some sort of embittered , wounded animal , who only wants to reach out and break things because he ca n't be happy or possess them ? ’
28 You 've got this superior idea that I 'm some sort of half-wit from the back of beyond who has n't the vaguest notion of what happens in the big , bad world .
29 You see , if you like me then you 'll think that I 'm some sort of brain surgeon , and if you hate me then you 'll think I 'm shit … the truth is in the middle .
30 Erm and basically er the , the reason for doing it that way is that erm , I do n't want to set up a situation where erm I 'm some sort of expert and I er this is not a matching process , okay ?
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