Example sentences of "i [verb] [pron] [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked what was the oldest part of the farm and was shown a flagstone path leading down to a valley . |
| 2 | I asked which were the smallest , and she picked out the three shortest ones quickly . |
| 3 | I asked which were the next tallest and she picked out the only two of the next size . |
| 4 | I mean they 're the same , the same |
| 5 | I mean we were the first show to put Demis Roussos on . |
| 6 | I mean what are the essential differences between European local erm county systems and and |
| 7 | If , it 's happening , I mean what was the Soviet Union I mean it 's |
| 8 | Er of course it 's , it 's , it 's I think it 's more longwinded than er I mean it 's the first time you 've fully got into it , and it 's more longwinded than the fifteen minutes allows you erm but I , I thought you were doing quite well to be honest . |
| 9 | Well I mean it 's the first position ever of such sort . |
| 10 | ‘ I mean it 's the other way round and he is insanely in love with me , and April is mad with him because he is , and she is madder with me because I 'm not , since that is so insulting to them both . ’ |
| 11 | It 's er I mean it 's the only thing to do is n't it ? |
| 12 | I mean it 's the annual meeting of the council that agrees the finance and everything else . |
| 13 | I mean it 's the best way to do it anyway , anyway , we should n't have . |
| 14 | I mean it 's the individual animals that have these properties are the ones that survive . |
| 15 | I mean it 's the last fortnight she 's meant to be studying and she 's been out with her boyfriends and |
| 16 | I mean it 's the same kind of adrenalin . |
| 17 | You do n't really I mean I think I do n't know maybe working for a char firm of chartered surveyors you have I mean it 's the same system is n't working as a dogsbody and then maybe |
| 18 | And there 's I mean it 's the same for us , as well so er |
| 19 | I mean it 's the same kind of thing is n't it ? |
| 20 | I know , I mean , I mean it 's the same thing is n't it ? |
| 21 | I mean it 's the old story , is n't it , one person who gets killed on a Bank Holiday car crash is not news but four getting killed together is a disaster , is newsworthy , I mean that 's the way it works . |
| 22 | I mean it was the only one with a with its own kitchen . |
| 23 | It 's a , I mean it were the same at Christmas were n't it ? |
| 24 | Do I think she 's the central bank or what ? |
| 25 | And I realized it was the first time I actually slept in a bed with Frank ever . |
| 26 | And , as soon as I 'd said that , I realised it was the wrong thing to have said . |
| 27 | ‘ I expect they 're the same ones he used to tell me . ’ |
| 28 | I found I was the only woman in the upstairs room of the Albert in Kings Cross , listening to a man in a leather jacket giving an introductory talk which seemed to assume that we were all men . |
| 29 | When I arrived I found I was the only newspaperman so involved , and Mains had his men out on the main field . |
| 30 | Yeah but as I say it 's the same as when you know we come over when we went up to the |