Example sentences of "[vb base] i be the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I mean , I realise I 'm the baby of the family , and a mere female — ’ the latter drew a bleak smile from her father , acknowledging a point of contention between them spanning several years ‘ — but I do n't see how just a fire can mean the end of everything ! |
| 2 | it 's easy , you just say I 'm the Government , give me your money , |
| 3 | ‘ Let me be the judge of that . ’ |
| 4 | I am a thousand winds that blow I am the diamond glint on snow . |
| 5 | Remember I am the apple of the headmaster 's eye . |
| 6 | Now remember I am the leader of a party that has been in the front line against his violence for twenty years , and have been at many risks , as have been members of my party , but when I say that that dialogue is the best hope they 've seen for peace for twenty years . |
| 7 | ‘ No jests , you know I am the keeper of the King 's secrets . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll have you know I was the scourge of our local Pontypool dance hall every Saturday night . ’ |
| 9 | Right as you know I 'm the head of a major advertising company . |
| 10 | Akhenaten either died or was murdered , we 're not , we do n't know , we do n't know how er he was a very peculiar man as I 'll explain in the lectures er physically , very strange probably as a result of inbreeding and erm the old religion re-established itself there was never a return to monotheistic sun worship , but er all its hypothesis is that , that since we know the exodus occurred round about this time and since we know that Judaism too is a religion of a single-minded monotheist you know I 'm the law by God I shall have no other gods before me , it says in the Bible full stop . |
| 11 | know I 'm the sheriff . |
| 12 | Okay , Jesus is the Son of God , poor old Joseph is just a kind of surrogate father erm , you know like a test-tube baby father actually test tube er is er is like you know er a complete surrogate father er for God erm they 're threatened by Herod so they have to flee to Egypt and er then they come back and eventually Jesus realizes who he is and after a long struggle with good and evil , temptation at the desert , crucifixion and God knows what , erm off he goes back to you know , sitting up there on the right hand of God saying you know I 'm the Son of God which he is , so Oedipus , Oedipus is expelled by his parents , there 's a prophecy he will murder his father and marry his mother , so they get rid of him , but he does n't die , he gets found by a shepherd , brought up by a shepherd . |
| 13 | We never were that close anyway , I suppose I was the favourite too . |
| 14 | I want to play for my country and believe I am the man for the job . ’ |
| 15 | Pretend I 'm the farmer and you are the horse , and we 're going to buy some pigs . ’ |
| 16 | I think I was the subject of a smear campaign . |
| 17 | ‘ They think I 'm the boss , but I 'm not . |
| 18 | ‘ You think I 'm the granddaughter of a criminal — ’ |
| 19 | Will the limbless Mr Azul think I 'm the guy he saw at the front door ? |