Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] some " in BNC.

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1 The Aplysia nervous system contains relatively few nerve cells , but amongst them are some which are rather large .
2 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 .
3 ‘ Your tone would seem to imply that I am some sort of Bluebeard who keeps her incarcerated .
4 He seems to think I am some sort of double-dealing rascal who is going to cheat him — "
5 ‘ 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 ? ’
6 ‘ You act like I 'm some kind of monster ! ’
7 They probably think I 'm some sex craved monster .
8 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 .
9 It 's weird because writing is a pretty spontaneous thing for me , but people seem to imagine after hearing the album that I 'm some real craftsman or pop musicologist or something .
10 I hope I 'm some good .
11 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 . ’
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 I 'll look at the cricket scores and pretend I 'm some old member in from the shires with a striped blazer and a pink gin in his fist .
15 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 ?
16 She thought : I feel as if I 'm some kind of cake .
17 You think I 'm some kind of dumbo .
18 ‘ You think I 'm some sort of kosher goody-goody , do n't you , dybbuk ? ’ she says into her fist .
19 Why would you suppose that I 'm some kind of insomniac ? ’
20 I do n't want the lads thinking I 'm some sort of wimp , that ca n't cope with a bit of shock . ’
21 ‘ But … oh , heavens , this sounds arrogant , as if I 'm some irresistible Lolita or something … but I would n't want you getting any ideas about me while we 're thrown together like this … ’
22 And the girl who came for him was Young and Insolent and spoke to me as if I were some common washerwoman who must do as she was told which is not in my nature nor never was .
23 ( I never cease to marvel at the continued confusion in the public mind between nuclear power and weapons : too many people stare at me as if I were some unnaturally hybrid creature when I mention to them that I am both a member of CND and a strident advocate of nuclear power stations to produce electricity .
24 I 'm not going to bring the whole world down on us by telling my mother and father that I feel like a big spancelled goat going to college and having to come back here every night as if I were some kind of simpleton .
25 as if I were some Arab with five gold watches up his arm . ’
26 ‘ You tested me as if I were some wretched little circus dog at the Carnival , doing tricks to please you ?
27 ‘ as if I were some lusty parlourmaid who waylaid you — ’
28 As he said to us 42 years later , ‘ I was interested in some kind of sense , that I descended from Aaron , that I was some kind of high priest .
29 To cast aspersions on the new revolutionaries was to put his own patriotism in question : ‘ if I 'd done that , Bill Casey , Jean Kirkpatrick ( the Ambassador to the United Nations ) and Cap Weinberger would have said I was some kind of a commie . ’
30 This afternoon — I arrived in Salisbury at around three thirty — when I entered my address in her register as ‘ Darlington Hall ’ , I could see her look at me with some trepidation , assuming no doubt that I was some gentleman used to such places as the Ritz or the Dorchester and that I would storm out of her guest house on being shown my room .
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