Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Had I been a few feet nearer the bomb I should have been blown to pieces — had I been a few feet further away I should have been cut to pieces by shrapnel .
2 Had I been a few feet nearer the bomb I should have been blown to pieces — had I been a few feet further away I should have been cut to pieces by shrapnel .
3 cos Edmund and I are the same age
4 I am no such thing .
5 But I am no such creature , the king thought , burning in his own fury and grief , I can not be thus constantly outdone and bear no grudge .
6 I am a former management employee of Dorman Long 's Bridge and Constructional Works , Middlesbrough , who actually built this bridge and recall talking in the 1930s to men who had worked on it .
7 SIR — I am a former pupil of Summerhill School at Leiston , Suffolk ( television review , March 31 ) .
8 However , if I talk about Tyneside when I am a few miles away in Teesside or Wearside , I am in real trouble .
9 ‘ I feel staggered at being chosen as a winner , and it has made me really thrilled , even though I am a few years older than the others , ’ he said .
10 She thought : I am a few walls ' , stairways ' , rooms ' distance from him .
11 What do you think I am a some kind of idiot !
12 I am the same woman you fell in love with then , the very same .
13 I am the same woman you fell in love with then , the very same .
14 SIR — I am the same age as the funniest sports writer around , Michael Parkinson .
15 And erm well I am the same status and I am his colleague and all this you know I can help you .
16 I 'm no more scum than you , mister .
17 I 'm a few minutes
18 So that , I mean that 's I 'm a half day that day .
19 I 'm , I 'm a half day , I finish at twelve .
20 He said : ‘ I 'm the same player I was before my injury in the FA Cup final , but I just use my head a little bit more and try to get more people involved in the game .
21 I 'm I 'm the same as you I 'm the same darling !
22 They said that was n't possible and I think I 'm the same opinion as Harry if you 're writing off and stop them going down Station Lane they 'll probably withdraw it altogether .
23 I 'm the same height as the youth you 've hired , ’ she said . ’
24 Perhaps by my middle-aged presence , the suggestion that Flora and I were the same age ?
25 Matt and I were the same age within a month but Alfred was two or three years older and Maurice quite a bit younger .
26 I felt that he and I were the same sort of person , that there was something in my brain and heart , in my blood and bone , that connected me to him for ever .
27 well and yours is the same look
28 I was a little way ahead before they moved off .
29 I was a few pence in the red to a bank that makes millions of pounds in profit every year .
30 ‘ If I was a few years younger , I 'd be a hooker , ’ said Constance , stretching .
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