Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [pron] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I am one in a row of specimens .
2 You will see I am something of a democrat . ’
3 I do n't mind telling you , I am something of an expert at swimming myself , and I know some smashing spots for a jolly good sssplash up . ’
4 I am nothing of the sort !
5 I am nothing but a stomach of cheap tin , empty but for the clanking of a few tin cans which have been squashed by a gargantuan hand and thrown together .
6 How dare you lay claim to me , as if I am yours for the taking ? ’
7 I still do n't believe in God but now I 'm something of a cross between a Buddhist and a Quaker with pantheist leanings . ’
8 With the Ellis family finances being in a perpetual state of crisis , I 'm something of an expert in the subject of raising an overdraft . ’
9 I 'm nothing but a nuisance to you .
10 I was something of a child prodigy .
11 So I was something of a godsend for her .
12 ‘ For many years people thought I was something of a rebel or a madman , ’ Annesley recalled .
13 I informed Mr Kagan that I was something of a heretic so far as the minutiae of the Jewish faith were concerned ; on the other hand , I said , I had never concealed that I was a loyal member of the faith , and so I would be happy to have the boy to tea and talk to him about Judaism in general terms .
14 Even though as a graduate I was something of an oddity , I was absorbed into the background after a time and people treated me as one of them .
15 But I was one with the solitaries of the spirit , too : with St Teresa and St John of the Cross as well as with humbler dissidents like Jordi and one or two other men of the working class I had known in Spain , the young bank clerk I had met in Cordoba the previous spring , among the orange and lilac blossom of Las Tendillas , where we walked and whispered , hardly daring to look at one another , and separating at the sight of police .
16 I was cast opposite him but I was nothing like the draw he was and we had had a dodgy time on tour .
17 You are something of a legend here still and would be assured of a fine welcome , a passably good dinner , and a bed at my humble abode — plus travel expenses .
18 Have you are you in a shop ?
19 Better still , if you are anything of an artist , is then to transpose your scale plan to a three-dimensional drawing , preferably coloured , showing it as it will be in three or four years " time when the perennial plants are mature .
20 You 're nothing but a cold , calculating … ’
21 You 're nothing but a scheming , conniving , low-down … ’
22 Looking at the man , he says , ‘ You 're nothing but a pile of chits . ’
23 You 're nothing but a brute and a bully !
24 You 're nothing but a cheater ! ’
25 You 're nothing but a menace in here . ’
26 You 're nothing but a conniving , scheming , little bitch ! ’
27 ‘ You 're a fool , I thought differently of you , but you 're nothing but a fool , a lovesick fool , like every other idiot girl I 've known .
28 And she said you 're nothing but a load of old busybodies and how dare you and oh the language .
29 You 're nothing but an exam machine to them . ’
30 If you 're anything like the GH staff , you 'll be wanting to know more about Stella … watch this space .
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