Example sentences of "[pron] be [noun] i [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of them are rubbish I should think . |
| 2 | Because I am Vegan I will not eat de Rich , |
| 3 | Now if I were Alwyn I would not be too proud of winning a competition to see who could use more cliches than anyone else . |
| 4 | If I were Souness I 'd go for the Charles Bronson option . |
| 5 | ‘ If I were manager I would … ’ |
| 6 | If I was Madonna I would probably have shown it to you . |
| 7 | If I was Madonna I would probably have shown it to you . |
| 8 | ‘ If I was Empress I would be a constitutional Empress only , ’ said Pakeezah , drawing herself up . |
| 9 | The only difference they were very well written but they were signed you know Mohammed and which were names I used to go there . |
| 10 | Yet the January , February , March the temperature is high which is temperature I ca n't tell by looking at that , which one 's temperature and which one 's rainfall . |
| 11 | There are questions I must ask there . ’ |
| 12 | When asked how he knew this , he would become very vague , saying , ‘ There are things I ca n't tell you guys , you 'll just have to take my word for it . ’ |
| 13 | There are things I ca n't explain . ’ |
| 14 | Please , I 'm asking you to give me your blind trust and it 's unfair of me , but there are things I ca n't bring myself to confess just yet . |
| 15 | ‘ I am sorry to disturb you , Abu , ’ said Owen , ‘ but there are things I would know . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ We should talk ; there are things I should explain … ’ |
| 17 | ‘ There are things I should have said to you that I did n't . |
| 18 | There are things I must do to you . ’ |
| 19 | There are things I must attend to . ’ |
| 20 | I ask your pardon for leaving you waiting at the door , but I 'm pressed , Owen , the days crowd me , and there are things I must set forward while I may . |
| 21 | Mark : I ca n't say that to the same extent , but where I live at the moment I know a lot of people within five minutes ' walk and there are ten or fifteen gay people I know who live locally ; there are people I can visit without any great effort whatsoever , whom I 'm likely to meet in the shops . |
| 22 | ‘ And if they flinch at the sight of the salt , there are persuasions I can use . ’ |
| 23 | There were scales I would hear in music and I used to think to myself , ‘ I need to learn that scale , ’ or , ‘ I need to learn how he got that effect using that scale with those chords , ’ and basically what Joe gave me was that sort of thinking . |
| 24 | The idea had been to keep only what was mine , but I found there were things I could n't bear to part with . |
| 25 | There were parts I would not have selected and others left out that I would have included , but as the whole thing had to be condensed into twenty minutes , I was reasonably pleased with it . |
| 26 | There were ways I could straddle the machine , but this just seemed ludicrous . |
| 27 | ‘ There 's things I can look at . ’ |
| 28 | I mean there 's times I could just take Billy and just but then you have to think , no . |
| 29 | ‘ If I did , ’ he said , ‘ they are people I can trust . ’ |
| 30 | Oh they 're onions I could of sworn they was kidneys . |