Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] be some [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dear me , she thought I was some old biddy needing bingo . ’ |
| 2 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
| 3 | Then he lowered his gaze and observed with dark humour , ‘ The receptionist probably thought you were some irate girlfriend come to bring me to book about something or other . ’ |
| 4 | At first I think most of us thought it was some electrical appliance . |
| 5 | I thought it was some massive mansion . |
| 6 | Indeed , had he been some eight years older , he would have been born a subject of the pope — but the Piedmontese put an end to that possibility when they invaded Rome in 1870 . |