Example sentences of "[pron] [be] some [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now North Yorkshire County Council er I think in their statement look to erm to existing market towns to provide what little evidence they can up to justify fourteen hundred dwellings , er I think that 's again a simplistic approach because by definition the market now can seal them up wider catchment area , many of them are some distance from York , and the settlements concerned provide a service base for a number of surrounding villages , and therefore the actual specialities and services found within that particular settlement are greater than one would achieve if it did not have a large catchment area . |
| 2 | ‘ Your tone would seem to imply that I am some sort of Bluebeard who keeps her incarcerated . |
| 3 | He seems to think I am some sort of double-dealing rascal who is going to cheat him — " |
| 4 | ‘ You act like I 'm some kind of monster ! ’ |
| 5 | And the Gunners ' record signing , pilloried for his moment of madness in the battle of White Hart Lane a week ago , said : ‘ People in the street are going to look at me as if I 'm some kind of nutcase trying to put people out of the game . ’ |
| 6 | Then everyone will think I 'm some kind of spy anyway because it 's hardly going to fit in with my cover of being a moron . |
| 7 | She thought : I feel as if I 'm some kind of cake . |
| 8 | You think I 'm some kind of dumbo . |
| 9 | Why would you suppose that I 'm some kind of insomniac ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You 're asking me if I 'm some sort of embittered , wounded animal , who only wants to reach out and break things because he ca n't be happy or possess them ? ’ |
| 11 | You 've got this superior idea that I 'm some sort of half-wit from the back of beyond who has n't the vaguest notion of what happens in the big , bad world . |
| 12 | You see , if you like me then you 'll think that I 'm some sort of brain surgeon , and if you hate me then you 'll think I 'm shit … the truth is in the middle . |
| 13 | Erm and basically er the , the reason for doing it that way is that erm , I do n't want to set up a situation where erm I 'm some sort of expert and I er this is not a matching process , okay ? |
| 14 | ‘ You think I 'm some sort of kosher goody-goody , do n't you , dybbuk ? ’ she says into her fist . |
| 15 | I do n't want the lads thinking I 'm some sort of wimp , that ca n't cope with a bit of shock . ’ |
| 16 | I 'm not going to bring the whole world down on us by telling my mother and father that I feel like a big spancelled goat going to college and having to come back here every night as if I were some kind of simpleton . |
| 17 | as if I were some Arab with five gold watches up his arm . ’ |
| 18 | As he said to us 42 years later , ‘ I was interested in some kind of sense , that I descended from Aaron , that I was some kind of high priest . |
| 19 | To cast aspersions on the new revolutionaries was to put his own patriotism in question : ‘ if I 'd done that , Bill Casey , Jean Kirkpatrick ( the Ambassador to the United Nations ) and Cap Weinberger would have said I was some kind of a commie . ’ |
| 20 | Just because I had a bat and had played at school , they assumed I was some kind of expert . |
| 21 | To hear you talk , anyone would think I was some kind of wanton , a man-stealer . |
| 22 | About how I was some kind of prophet as far as he was concerned and he was desperate to have me Confirmed . |
| 23 | Richard and I thought you had settled so nicely ’ — as if I was some sort of jelly — and then , ‘ Well , if you really want to , I suppose it would be nice for you to earn a little pin money . ’ |
| 24 | It was as if Marc himself were some sort of electrical power source . |
| 25 | He pointed to the plate on which were some slices of cold streaky bacon . |
| 26 | I 'm using ‘ happy ’ in one specific turn of phrase , which is some kind of extension of its basic meaning . ’ |
| 27 | What we do need is the equivalent of what we 've got in the documents which I 've given to you which is some sort of allowance for every bit of control of the thing . |
| 28 | 639 to ‘ this day ’ , that is , Adomnán 's time of writing , c . 700 , which is some time after the power of the northern Angles beyond the Forth had been shattered at Nechtanesmere in 685 , and the reference is rather to the failure of the kings of Scottish Dál Riata to regain control of Irish Dál Riata in Antrim . |
| 29 | This is one of the reasons why we are saying to the government that they should consider what our competitor countries do , which is some form of temporary credit management ; some form of temporary credit controls to squeeze off this surge in demand before it really gets going and pushes inflation up again . |
| 30 | Another specific usage of private stations was that of Railway Staff halts which enabled staff to reach a place of work which was some distance from a public stopping place . |