Example sentences of "be [art] [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am the only woman you 've felt like this about , the only woman you 've kissed and caressed this way . |
| 2 | You will find that I am the one person you can always trust . |
| 3 | I am the one person you can trust around here . |
| 4 | I am always and everywhere his place ; if I am the barren land he thinks to water into an oasis I am also the blight on his crops and the locust destroying grain ; I am both the ruined harvest and the shameful blood that sickens cattle . |
| 5 | I am the same woman you fell in love with then , the very same . |
| 6 | I am the same woman you fell in love with then , the very same . |
| 7 | I am half hidden in my bower , I am the last thing she sees , so I have time to examine her . |
| 8 | It could have been the extra garlic I 'd put in the Rogan Josh which woke me at 2.06 a.m. , but it was probably the noise Billy Tuckett made falling through the bathroom skylight and killing himself . |
| 9 | I 've met some wonderful people , Bob Hope and Nat King Cole who much have been the nicest person I have ever seen |
| 10 | The cause of death had been the terrible bludgeoning he had received from a blunt instrument . |
| 11 | If we had been the attacking team we would have been wanting that try . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ It must have been the tremendous strain he had been under worrying about Laura and trying to keep his job up . |
| 13 | One man , Ivan Masterson , talks about how he helped pull people from the rubble and says : ‘ It must have been the second body I helped to take out … it was an awful shock seeing my uncle there with his wife beside him . ’ |
| 14 | I would n't have been the first guy he 'd ever seen at that hour . |
| 15 | ‘ He should have been the best horse I ever had , if only he 'd had decent health ! ’ from owner David Broome , this was quite some testimonial to the abilities of the brilliant grey show-jumper , Phoenix Park . |
| 16 | If I do n't pay cash and er been the best thing I ever done and its been sufficient , you know what I mean and er all the people , there ai n't nobody in this town that I ai n't worked for , sometime or other . |
| 17 | ‘ It would have been the best thing you could ever have done for me . |
| 18 | He wandered into his dressing room , climbed into his costume — really , buying Mandrika 's old wardrobe had been the best investment he 'd ever made . |
| 19 | It 's been the best investment I 've ever made . |
| 20 | The one which had once been the spare room she now occupied permanently . |
| 21 | That 's why I crawl down holes and chuck myself off cliffs and ride the bike — it 's been the only way I could feel alive , but since I met you I 've come alive in other ways , ways I 'd forgotten long ago . |
| 22 | In 1944–45 , the old hutted Emergency Hospital at Hexham near the Roman Wall had been the only home I had . |
| 23 | It had undoubtedly been the only time he 'd been able to relax . |
| 24 | It could have been the comfortless chair he was sitting in . |
| 25 | In Vincent 's case , this may have been the very reaction he wanted . |
| 26 | Must have been the same time I did my leg in . |
| 27 | Detectives say that had Mr Hughes been the intended target it would have been much easier for loyalists to attack him at his Carryduff home in south Belfast . |
| 28 | Our modern parental investment individualistic view would n't allow you to make that error , instead you 'd say you know you 've got ta look at the costs and benefits of the mother too and perhaps there are benefits to mothers in actively testing as it were their offspring , erm rather than just passively er accepting that they 're gon na have to be mothers and gon na have to get on with it and again you see , er I would er and this may have been the big mistake I made last year , er but again I stand by my er view on this and it 's a perfectly defensible one , erm again I think those who say that abortion is unnatural and kind of erm offends against er you know nature , are wrong . |
| 29 | Shiva had called it that , but in his mouth it had not been the hackneyed expression it would have been if an English person had so referred to it . |
| 30 | But it had been the older sister he had gone there with , and had apparently abandoned in favour of the younger , more exciting girl . |