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Example sentences of "[subord] i [be] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	She must have been giving him instructions to find out where I was last night .
2	Where I was last night , and so on .
3	I have rarely been angrier than I was that day .
4	‘ It 's tough , but the writing was on the wall once I was 12th man .
5	If a human observer sets out to interpret the " emotions " of a rat what else can he do except say of himself : " Now if I were that rat , how should I feel ? "
6	You are treating me as if I were another Rosette Fournier . ’
7	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 .
8	as if I were some Arab with five gold watches up his arm . ’
9	If I was one millionth part of an angel there would be a miracle .
10	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 . ’
11	Three figures , their faces muffled by cloaks and broad-brimmed hats , seized me and began to beat me as if I was some dog .
12	" If I was full time , I 'd be taking home £40 a week , " said a Sheffield hotel worker who is also a single parent .
13	It was as if I was another man .
14	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 . ’
15	She thought : I feel as if I 'm some kind of cake .
16	‘ 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 ? ’
17	My mission is not over until I 'm undisputed champion . ’
18	‘ No more sleep for this child until I 'm safe back at Maggie 's . ’
19	‘ You act like I 'm some kind of monster ! ’
20	Unless I 'm mistaken Choak is accustomed to having his statements checked . ’
21	Yet loyal Yorkshire fans in and around Teesside need not worry too much because I am confident Acklam Park will continue to stay on the White Rose map .
22	It does n't do any good to let him think he can overrule me either — well , he ca n't really , because I 'm Chief Druid after all .
23	And this was not only Walsall Co-op , it was the Co-ops as far as I can remember , because er er you know I would n't take that for gospel could I 'm not not sure because I was only child .
24	I burst into tears because I was sure Mum had pawned it or sold it .
25	It pleases me because I was afraid music was being pushed out by computers — and I was chuffed to find that I could still ‘ work ’ the pedals after more than 50 years !
26	Peter would go so far and then no further , till I was bright scarlet from Guthrie 's ministrations and nothing from Peter .
27	We stayed in that house till I were eight year old and then we were went on to where I lived the rest of my time and that would have been from nineteen twenty to oh a couple of year ago .
28	A highly-developed sense of the ridiculous is inimical to the striking of certain musical attitudes ; and , while I 'm sure mason regards the craft of composition itself with profound seriousness , there are clearly many compositional modes and self images which he 's quite unable to invest with the spurious dignity they often demand .
29	The second time , she 's expressing the same two sentiments over some other shambling case of physical dereliction , while I 'm left panting on an immobile bicycle and I never go back .
30	The telephone rang while I was busy explaining to Tony Crosland that I could not accept a further term of office at the Housing Corporation , since I had been appointed to the Mastership of University College , Oxford , but I had agreed to a request that I should at least stay for another year to see someone else in .