Example sentences of "[pers pn] be that [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am now sure I was that boy in an earlier life . |
| 2 | I was that content with being a mother I 'd decided I did n't want a job until my daughter went to secondary school . |
| 3 | ‘ You are that part of me that I cut off , and I never have been and never shall be whole without you . ’ |
| 4 | but , but the thing is if , if the traffic 's gon na be heavy , if it thinks we 're gon na get stuck in traffic , if you 've got a G T I you 're that type of driver you 've got that type of power , you can sort of pass and save a bit of time |
| 5 | The remastering will only really matter if you 're one of those bores with expensive stereos , but if you 're that sort of person then that 's reason enough to buy this . |
| 6 | The remastering will only really matter if you 're one of those bores with expensive stereos , but if you 're that sort of person then that 's reason enough to buy this . |
| 7 | Well , if you 're that sort of person , I would worry about them you see . |
| 8 | ‘ I did n't think you were that kind of girl , ’ he said , ‘ and I sha n't see you again . |
| 9 | Yeah she 's that type of little girl , ai n't she ? |
| 10 | She was that type of a person . |
| 11 | She was that sort of girl . |
| 12 | Why had he thought it necessary , she would n't have minded , surely he did n't think she was that sort of person . |
| 13 | She was that sort of person . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm surprised at yer. , mate , I never reckoned you was that kind of bloke . |
| 15 | We 're that sort of company . |
| 16 | I do n't think they are that type of band anyway . |
| 17 | They are that kind of car and if you look at £80,000 and how long it 'll last you and see how many £15,000 cars you 'll buy in that time , we 're probably bargains . |
| 18 | Expensive they are that sort of thing . |
| 19 | they 're that kind of mat |
| 20 | Behind stood an impressive array of walls and couloirs , though the Pico del Norte and Illampu would prove forbidden fruits , guarded as they were that year by avalanches of fresh snow . |
| 21 | Bürger in such a context would assimilate both ‘ realist ’ and ‘ modernist ’ art to autonomous and bourgeois art , the only distinction between them being that modernism with its inaccessibility and greater cult of the creator is even more autonomous , more ‘ auratic ’ , than realism . |
| 22 | Would it be that head of the family ? or the coffin maker ? |
| 23 | I looked carefully about me , hiding behind one of those contorted shapes , and glimpsed Dana in the distance , walking away from the group of friends and joining a young woman , tall , pale , dark , distinguished-looking — could it be that dancer of his ? |
| 24 | Might it be that living with Phillis had turned him patsy , a dope to any skirt ? |
| 25 | She said to me when they find out what it is she could soon have you on your feet , but she thought it were that shadow on me lung . |
| 26 | ‘ It were that doctor with the yellow hair , were n't it ? ’ she said . |
| 27 | ‘ So I thought if he were that kind of driver I would not get involved . |
| 28 | Mmm , it 's that element of double checking that |
| 29 | It 's that pub in Limehouse , down by the river . |
| 30 | But after the permission of the seventies , when sex was banalized by becoming available , it could no longer be the instigator of desperation ( it 's that state of mind that is indispensable to rock , not physical fin ) . |