Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [that] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes : and I am that salmon |
| 2 | Branson stood beside Simon Draper , visibly shaking , his face set in a grim mask , ‘ I ca n't tell you , ’ he began , ‘ how sad I am that people have felt the need to have a meeting , without Simon and I being present . |
| 3 | ‘ As certain as I am that Queen Margaret has two tits ! |
| 4 | I am that God to whom you w ill not pray . |
| 5 | ‘ The version I heard-was that Lesley-Jane was going out to dinner with Michael Banks ‘ to go through his lines ’ . ’ |
| 6 | A more revolutionary proposal of his was that England players should train together regularly , an idea derived from his visit to Holland , where the national players came together for coaching once a week , and were given lectures and ‘ homework ’ exercises . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's what you are that matters to me , ’ Alice said impulsively . |
| 8 | Anyway , as soon as they saw me they scampered over and said , ‘ We know you , you 're that Derrick May are n't you ? ' |
| 9 | in which he says that erm the more convinced that she is that it 's going to be fatal in its operation , the more determined apparently she is that Adam shall share . |
| 10 | All I can tell you is that Winsor blue is one of the trade names for an intense blue pigment , copper phthalocyanine , which came into the palette sometime in the thirties . |
| 11 | All I can tell you is that Amy was in St Benet Oldfield on Friday night . ’ |
| 12 | can promise you is that commissions awarded on basis of competition , we were looking for quality , we invited bids , we |
| 13 | What I can also tell you is that Lucy 's engaged the erm British Cast Iron Research Association to carry out a survey , and they tried to repeat the circumstances of the explosion , and they could n't do so . |
| 14 | How glad she was that Tom had finally badgered her into going . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , all I came to tell you was that Matilda has a brilliant mind . |
| 16 | ‘ My lord , if I may speak for Shrewsbury , both abbey and town , I must tell you how grateful we are that Saint Winifred fell into such noble hands as yours . |
| 17 | They were that girls thought 16 was the right age to lose their virginity and that 75 per cent of them admitted to saying yes to sex when they really wanted to say no . |
| 18 | They were that Filmer 's bedroom was in that car . |
| 19 | ‘ I asked him was that pounds or dollars and he said dollars , so I said sure that 's not so bad and offered him £5 off the price of a new sweater . |
| 20 | The message Fernando Collor de Mello brought with him was that Brazil , where he would take over from President Sarney in mid-March , no longer wanted to be tagged as a Third World nation . |
| 21 | What seemed likely to him was that Adam had allowed some undesirable person or persons access to the place and it was these vagrants or hippies — there had been a lot of hippies still about then — were responsible . |
| 22 | One of the things that particularly amused him was that Hilary had pushed a red handkerchief into his sleeve as if it were a sign of breeding and distinction . |
| 23 | What did bother him was that Graham used him to get at Barak . |
| 24 | Could it be that McNab was actually smiling ? |
| 25 | How can it be that Jesus could become sin for you and me ? |
| 26 | People ask how can it be that Scotland 's relatively small , relatively low-key club set-up can produce teams that will fearlessly take on the best and nurture expectations of victory over them all until the final whistle . |
| 27 | Could it be that Albert 's eyes dulled a little ? |
| 28 | But why should it be that Peggy gets a lift from knowing that she has ‘ beaten ’ Boris ? |
| 29 | Could it be that Ianthe knew this good-looking young Italian ? she wondered enviously . |
| 30 | There is one astounding omission from this list — could it be that Glyndebourne forgot the anniversary ? |