Example sentences of "and [pron] be [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and me being a great innovator |
| 2 | And me being a silly idiot , see if I 'd realized I did n't think you do n't think that there 's three parts of the tank , you think it 's a tank and you just turn your tap on and the water comes out or |
| 3 | She always turns the conversation away when Aunt Minnie starts about marriage and me being an old maid . ’ |
| 4 | My servility to Sam and admiration for his strength had never stopped Jerry and me being the closest of the family . |
| 5 | ‘ There are always pressures on kids my age to diet and I am no different from the rest . |
| 6 | My name is Private A and I am a part-time soldier in the 4th ( County Fermanagh ) Battalion of the Ulster Defence Regiment . |
| 7 | ‘ We shall walk barefoot and dusty and alone and suffer many things , and within our sufferings we shall find the pearl of great price , the untarnished joy , the secret treasure , and we shall find it because he is a pure saint and the bravest man in the world and I am a simple singer robed in humility , one risen from the dead ’ |
| 8 | If you live round the corner from Mary Whitehouse could you pop in and tell her that her phone is off the hook she has n't replaced the receiver and she she 's quite an elderly lady and I would would be terribly upset if if she had n't got her phone back cos she might need it for emergencies or something like that and I am a caring concerned person so could you could you pop round the corner to Mary 's house and tell her that she has n't put her phone on the hook off the hook properly could you do that ? |
| 9 | She said : ‘ I have never been in an aeroplane and I am a little bit nervous . ’ |
| 10 | On the other hand I have Theosophy and I am a staunch supporter . |
| 11 | I now have a regular exercise programme which I enjoy and I am a trim one-and-a-half stones lighter which makes all the difference to how I feel about myself " . |
| 12 | As he is a natural pessimist and I am a natural optimist , I quoted the good and he quoted only the bad . |
| 13 | ‘ My father was an only son and I am an only son too . |
| 14 | I know they work and I am an enthusiastic user |
| 15 | And I am the legitimate heir . ’ |
| 16 | Years before , he had suddenly exclaimed with bitter irony , ‘ You are quite the plush gentleman and I am the black sheep . ’ |
| 17 | He is the New People and I am the Few . |
| 18 | Mark Calcavecchia and I are a good team ; we can relax with each other — that 's the key . " |
| 19 | ‘ Ilona and I are the new Adam and Eve , ’ he tells me . |
| 20 | ‘ Apart from a few people at the Kremlin and at Number Ten , you and I are the only people who know of the situation . ’ |
| 21 | Toby and I are the same , two people we were yesterday — we 're still your friends " " Not the same . |
| 22 | cos Edmund and I are the same age |
| 23 | The first few lessons are crucial and I 'm a firm believer that there are so few good British riders because our initial training is so often overlooked . |
| 24 | Now independent taxation , as you may know , came in , we 're now in ninety three four , I 've only just altered the heading because very little else has changed and I 'm a lazy so and so I ca n't rewrite it just for the heading . |
| 25 | Quite a good friend of them you know and I 'm a close contact with them . |
| 26 | And I 'm a civil servant in York . |
| 27 | He is Cancerian and I 'm a Sagittarian and he describes it as him rushing towards the dark , and me rushing towards the light , and we both drag each other back , into a kind of middle earth . |
| 28 | And I 'm a great believer in everybody should be accountable right ? |
| 29 | ‘ Stan 's just what the doctor ordered , a man with personality and I 'm a great believer in personality , ’ says Mr Evans , leaning against his walking frame at Caerphilly 's Abbeyfield Home . |
| 30 | I know the British Heart Foundation is a worthy cause and I 'm a regular cyclist myself . |