Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er he went up and examined the wife and he come down stairs and he said to me Are you the husband ? |
| 2 | Perhaps I am myself no gourmet , and think of food as a matter in which the rational man can excuse himself from making a fully-considered choice . |
| 3 | Clearly there can be no reason why one should not be a feminist and a religious person , in the sense in which I am myself a religious person . |
| 4 | But I am myself an agent ; there remains the question of how I make my own decisions . |
| 5 | I am what the English would call ‘ on the shelf ’ : eccentric in their eyes . |
| 6 | ‘ Regrettably , I am none the wiser . ’ |
| 7 | I am none the less glad to make a short contribution to the cross-party connection in support of the Bill . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm none the wiser , unless his work was something to do with the Hell Fire Club . |
| 9 | Have you got a couple of settings on yours is it a high and a low ? |
| 10 | By the time I was myself a prefect , the penny had dropped . |
| 11 | ‘ I feel it particularly strongly because , as a Hungarian Jew , I was myself a potential victim of the Holocaust . |
| 12 | ‘ I feel it particularly strongly because , as a Hungarian Jew , I was myself a potential victim of the Holocaust . |
| 13 | They thought I was something the cat brought in . ’ |
| 14 | Towards the end of the thirteen-year marriage she was treating me as if I was someone the cat had brought home . |
| 15 | ‘ You are yourself the water of life ; what shall discover that water , save the tearful eye ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You are there a lot , ’ said Owen , ‘ these days . ’ |
| 17 | Only with you am I the gypsy : |
| 18 | " I know : steak four times a day topped with butter and tons of eggs and cheese and stuff and you 're none the worse for it . " |
| 19 | ‘ Despite your obvious fondness for the place , you 're none the less nothing more than a temporary caretaker . |
| 20 | When there were no Red Cross parcels at all you began to notice that people sized up the rations of margarine before they helped themselves , and though you despised them for it you were none the less sharp to do it yourself . |
| 21 | If you were someone the Department needed information from , I could put in an expenses slip for five thousand , and Hilary Todd would sign it . ’ |
| 22 | She 's what a year and a half now ? |
| 23 | ‘ She is what the English call a chatterbox , I believe . ’ |
| 24 | She is whatever the majority of men regard as sexy at any given moment . |
| 25 | She is herself a nurse , not by any means inarticulate , but she could get no one to speak to or to tell her anything . |
| 26 | Is she is she a real Dulux old English sheepdog ? |
| 27 | ‘ But there must be a point … when you 've hosed off all the muck and the glaze and the bits of overpainting and your musks of Araby have done their work and you get to the point when you know that what you see before you is what the chap would have seen before him when he stopped painting all those centuries ago . |
| 28 | See the words , that what I read aloud to you is what the sortes have sent me . ’ |
| 29 | thank you is there a seconder to that |
| 30 | Thank you is there a seconder for the amendment please . |