Example sentences of "i [am/are] [prep] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But just between you and me and SHE magazine , her Majesty and I are like that , ‘ said Dame Edna , indicating a royal chumminess that went beyond mere Commonwealth ties . |
| 2 | I am at that crossroads . |
| 3 | I 'm as good at this as I am at being chairman of the board — and you know how good I am at that … ’ |
| 4 | It would have served as a substitute-gratification for their own sadism ( i.e. , ‘ I can not retaliate against my father , but I can against my younger brother ’ ) ; but also as a defence on the part of the ego ( i.e. , ‘ I am spared the anxiety of being made the object of an attack if I can instead become the attacker ’ ) ; finally , it would also have contributed a first , rudimentary focus for the superego ( i.e. , ‘ My father is not now the attacker — I am — hence I am to that extent my father ! ’ ) . |
| 5 | When Wordsworth confessed in a letter of 1794 that " I am of that odious class of men called democrats " , what he was indicating was not so much that he was a supporter of a wider parliamentary franchise as that he was on the side of the people and that he was a social and political egalitarian , though not necessarily also an economic one : " … my heart was all/Given to the people , and my love was theirs " , recalled the poet in The Prelude ( 1805 , Book IX , II . |
| 6 | His Master 's Voice in Hamlet , you know , it 's just , stick a who I am on that wee dog , I can remember I can see , I can remember that from |
| 7 | I want to show you how grateful I am for that . ’ |
| 8 | I wish to be at home with you indeed , indeed-my Joy is only in the bud here I am like that Tree , which fronts me — The Sun shines bright & warm , as if it were summer — but it is not summer & so it shines on leafless boughs . |
| 9 | Well no but I do n't to think I am like that with Jonathan . |
| 10 | On the question of closures of universities , schools and colleges , I am against that . |
| 11 | But I 'm through that now . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh — I 'm over that . ’ |
| 13 | No , I 'm over that . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , I 'm over that now . |
| 15 | If I 'm over that way . |
| 16 | I 'm past that . |
| 17 | So I 'm about that . |
| 18 | Naturally , I 'm at that mysterious , precarious stage somewhere close to and a long way from that miraculous first sentence . |
| 19 | but what I , what would be a possibility at sixty two , when I 'm at that point , I 'd be receiving half pay |
| 20 | So I was completely depressed for a week and then Cher 's album came out and I 'm on that ! |
| 21 | That 's al that 's alright that 's alright I 'm with that . |
| 22 | I 'm saving that , that for next , next term , so I wo n't say anything about incest now . |
| 23 | I 'm behind that glass that separated us from Pike that night on the Common . |
| 24 | Benn is a stereotype fighter and I 'm against that . |
| 25 | Now I 'm against that and I 'm therefore against I regret to say what the Noble Lord , Lord said , and I 'm extremely sorry to see that he has moved on this particular matter er because th there is no case , that has been really made out for this . |
| 26 | I 'm like that , Ruth . ’ |
| 27 | I 've now made single handedly cos I 'm like that single handed ! |
| 28 | Yeah but I 'm not I 'm like that I 'll have |
| 29 | I 'm like that . |
| 30 | I 'm like that |