Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] be [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I long for my canvas and easel where I am my own master and the world is my own . ’ |
| 2 | Sister Casualty handled them all magnificently , each patient differently , and yet each one as if he or she was her sole reason for taking up nursing . |
| 3 | Tolonen 's appointment as General would certainly help in that regard , but I must also show them that I am my own man , not merely my father 's shadow . |
| 4 | I feel secure in the sense that I 'm my own sort of person and I feel loved by Lucy . |
| 5 | I 'm so glad that she 's my little girl she 's so glad she 's telling all the world that her baby buys her things you know |
| 6 | so glad that she 's my little girl she 's so glad she 's telling all the world bleagh |
| 7 | I feel fine I 'm so glad that she 's my little girl she 's so glad she 's telling all the world that th |
| 8 | so glad that she 's my little girl she 's so glad she 's telling all the world Turn it up a bit then . |
| 9 | Maxine told me that she had known all the time that she was her twentieth-century self and that she was sitting in a comfortable chair in my consulting room . |
| 10 | The problem that he was having was that she was his legal wife 's sister and there was some rivalry or jealousy developing between his legal wife and er this other girl and he was n't sure what he what to do about it . |
| 11 | He wished very much that she was his real sister . |
| 12 | If you get a a pension based on the fact that you 're your late husband 's widow when you are no longer your late husband 's widow , but somebody 's wife they do n't have to pay you that pension . |
| 13 | The insight that we are what we keep secret about ourselves works out here to mean that we are our guilty secrets . |
| 14 | That they are their own sun |
| 15 | Breeze saw that they were her favourite kind , and remembered then that this had always been a little ritual — chocolates on the first night of the holidays . |
| 16 | Although it is his statutory duty to protect the Welsh environment , he simply referred the matter to the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 17 | They call it survival of the fittest , although it 's their own survival they are now worried about . |
| 18 | They call it survival of the fittest , although it 's their own survival they are now worried about . |
| 19 | Eager to see Bella , she had got up as soon as she was awake , although it was her usual habit to lie , for twenty minutes or so , drowsy , cocooned in her warm bed , entertaining herself with fantasies . |
| 20 | Although it was her first furlough she was using it to study for her Master 's Degree at Sidney University . |
| 21 | We then voted on a lengthy Liberal resolution er , it was amended by Labour we voted on all of the separate points in the resolution , all were agreed and then Professor decided that he wanted to move a further amendment which after some consultation , some discussion with the legal people about it 's validity , he did which wiped out all of the things that we 'd just agreed and we turned to the original Conservative motion minus the beginning phrase and with a couple of things stuck on at the end and we thought well that 's it the Conservatives will vote for that , but no although it was their own motion in all but name , the Conservatives would n't vote for that unless Mr was allowed to move it . |
| 22 | Now the poor are made to feel ashamed , that it 's their own fault , some shortcoming which they have . |
| 23 | And the maddening part of it is that it 's my own fault . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , ’ argues Paul , ‘ you have to remember that it 's our first album and it 's , like , our album for the world . |
| 25 | Because I do n't mind if Karen writes and bloody blames us that it 's our bloody fault , I 'm not bothered . |
| 26 | Feminists argue that it 's our male-dominated society that requires women to lose weight . |
| 27 | In this country , it is often assumed that teachers are a law unto themselves once they are inside the classroom and that it is their professional training and sense of professional responsibility that are the chief influences on their practice . |
| 28 | The girls insist that it is their fundamental right to wear their scarves at all times , just as some of their fellow students wear skullcaps or the cross . |
| 29 | They will inevitably feel that it is their own fault — that they are in some way ‘ bad ’ or deserving of such treatment . |
| 30 | I shall argue that it is their particular use of rhetoric that permits this . |