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 . |