Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [conj] [pron] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | You perhaps do not realize how long and desperately people have fought to keep Winston Spencer Churchill in the wilderness , and how furiously angry many of them are that he is back where he belongs . |
| 2 | ‘ Seven or eight hundred years of sewers , underground rivers , tunnels , and nobody knows where half of them are until they 're excavating or making changes , as they were at the Priory . |
| 3 | " If you want to be a good wife to me , and only the Lord knows how many times you 've said that 's what you want , you can stop asking questions and making deductions about where I been or what 's passed my lips , see ? |
| 4 | I feel as if I 'll die if I stay where I am but I 'm scared to get up and go somewhere else . |
| 5 | My mum thinks I 'm having a great time , as I tell her that I am but it 's a lie , and it has n't got any better . |
| 6 | I am that I am . |
| 7 | ‘ After all you 've done in the past for Rosemary and me , and are still doing , ’ he went on , ‘ I got to thinking yesterday that I could have been a sight more energetic in letting you know how delighted I am that you 're going to marry my cousin . |
| 8 | Ian Luder , head of Arthur Andersen 's executive and personal taxation services group , says that ‘ the more that I have been working on employee schemes , the more convinced I am that there is an impact ’ . |
| 9 | He tells me to stay where I am because he 's coming to fetch me . |
| 10 | I am because I 'm being kept in here and I might wan na stay |
| 11 | Shell , 42 , said : ‘ It is an historical event and I understand the significance of it , but the main thing is I know who I am and I 'm proud of it . |
| 12 | It 's part of my character , it 's who I am and I 'm not gon na hide underneath any wig . |
| 13 | ‘ I am afraid to tell you who I am , because if I tell you who I am you may not like who I am and it is all that I have . ’ |
| 14 | It is as much about who I am as it is about how I look , and about how difficult it is for women to separate the two . |
| 15 | I do n't want you to give me your answers now , I am as it were giving you the opportunity now , over lunch , to consider this matter . |
| 16 | I am as I am , a woman of my times , and I wo n't pretend . |
| 17 | I am as I am through the choices I have made , and I will not whine at fate . ’ |
| 18 | So would I be if they were ordering an early confrontation with M Delors . |
| 19 | I du n no , they get in on a Friday night he said by the time we 've cashed up , when I got there they 'd got this round coffee table in the middle of the room similar to that brass one what I 'm but it 's an old tin thing it is sitting in the middle of the room there was a little bag of money there a little bag of money there and a bag of money there that 's Geoff 's money that 's petrol money that 's five hundred pound . |
| 20 | But I 'm but I 'm working with |
| 21 | I 'm just , all I can say is I 'm , I 'm but I 'm glad I went to school , okay ? |
| 22 | And to be honest they I I 'm whether they 're stringing us along or not I do n't know . |
| 23 | Nobody is that I 'm that I 'm aware , is proposing a distribution park of strategic importance . |
| 24 | I would agree with you that if the if we have gone along and said to people , well er yo , we 've got alternative accommodation for you and they have n't wanted to go then , well I 'm sure that we hope not to give them that er er , alternative accommodation er , and it 's not in our interest at all to er , keep er , places empty , and further more we have n't really got er enough er , alternative places to put er , these er tenants in so I 'm that it 's as the result of the sort of dwellings that er we 've er we now find ourselves with as a result of the er initial buildings in the first place . |
| 25 | You know besides the fact that I I wan na work when I 'm when I 'm not working , I still like to get out the house and get involved in something . |
| 26 | Well I 've got two strong daughters so I suppose they 'll hold me up when I 'm when I 'm you know sort of decrepit and ready . |
| 27 | When I 'm , when I 'm when I 'm in an |
| 28 | Well I 'm if it 's full price thirty thousand , that 's three thousand pound in n it , near enough ? |
| 29 | You know those hangovers where you ca n't spell I 'm or you 're , let alone sorry or again ? |
| 30 | I 'm just hoping that I could learn as I 'm as I 'm earning you know . |