Example sentences of "be [pron] [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What am I I do n't wan na watch the flipping cartoon . |
| 2 | Er am I I brought back a pack full of riveting information for Your Lordships which I have placed in the library , this library , not that library . |
| 3 | I am someone who talks too much |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , even in Minnie , who 's so unlikely that she 's probably true — there probably has been someone who grew up as she did , saloon-wise and card-sharping yet quite sure that she wants nothing to do with the kind of messing around she 's seen under her parents ’ roof . |
| 5 | Or her attacker may have been someone she did not expect . |
| 6 | Though others envy what they can not give , for had the gift been theirs it had not here thus grown . |
| 7 | Now they 're what we have today , the motorways you know . |
| 8 | IBM Corp says its Personal Computer Co shipped 30% to 35% more personal computers in the first quarter than it did during the year-ago period , and vice-chairman Jack Kuehler expects it to be ‘ reasonably profitable ’ in 1993 — but the personal computer business is now so volatile that making forecasts more than a quarter ahead is a mug 's game : following Conner Peripherals Inc 's warning on Friday that it is seeing oversupply and soft demand for disk drives ( CI No 2,142 ) , observers are saying that grey market prices for 80486s are now weak ; Finis Conner said on Friday that Conner would have to slash production and payrolls in the months ahead to remain competitive — ‘ The market is in total disarray , ’ he said ; ‘ the pricing that has occurred in the last four to five days has been something I 've never seen believes the booming personal computer industry is showing signs of slowing after being fuelled for over two years by the price war . |
| 9 | He had been everything she had ever imagined the man she loved would be . |
| 10 | I 'm I I 've only just l l looked at this like very er er like everybody else . |
| 11 | I 'm someone who has very little concern with any kind of social problems , someone who 's very much concerned with their own particular plight . |
| 12 | It had to be someone who knew how to find the trail . |
| 13 | For example , you may be someone who does not enjoy the enforced camaraderie of office life . |
| 14 | ‘ He attempted to make a swing , but appeared to be someone who does n't play the game . ’ |
| 15 | at all by the way if you do n't want anyone to It will be someone who does n't know you will try to code up that tape into hieroglyphics which is |
| 16 | The driver must be someone who did n't know the district well , or he would n't have gone along the Applewick lane ; and that meant it was very likely he would n't realise that his van would hit the arch of the bridge instead of going under it , just as her daddy 's had done once . |
| 17 | This will usually be someone who has relatively little experience as an account executive ( but may well have been in the agency for some time , as a progress controller or planner , for example ) . |
| 18 | up and running as it were and er I shall be I I know already that some of these figures are inaccurate |
| 19 | No it 's got to be somebody who has n't had a go , otherwise the system falls down , does n't it . |
| 20 | So you could literally have a situation in which you could live say er er a woman could er live er you know a mile from the state line and in one state er abortion er could be something which ended up with a doctor in prison for life , in another state , across the state line , it could be something which was er you know er provided free of charge by the state public health authorities . |
| 21 | I had to lift my gaze from the old dashboard that I had sat in front of for more than sixty years to a new one , and the only new one I knew of displayed the dials and instruments of what is called holistic medicine and which at that time I took to be something I knew virtually nothing about . |
| 22 | I , i it used to be something I put up with when I was younger , now , if my parents come to visit I ask them to smoke in the corridor , go out of the door , open a window , something , because I found it affects me so badly ! |
| 23 | But unless he stops forcing me to be something I do n't want to be , I shall have to go . ’ |
| 24 | Well we 're trying to get Michael Allison on the phone and he may well be one who does n't agree with this . |
| 25 | The most demanding would be one I have previously raised : namely , that though the successful encounter with a poem may result in a unique aesthetic experience , academic practice demands that it be turned into non-aesthetic discourse . |
| 26 | Apart from Steve , I do n't think there appeared to be anyone who turned round and said look they could n't do it . |
| 27 | I wondered if there would be anyone I knew there . |
| 28 | In real life , as Anne proves , they can do and be whatever they want nowadays . |
| 29 | And the house will be hers you see when they 're properly divorced . |
| 30 | You will be what you 've always wanted to be . |