Example sentences of "and i [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | And I am the legitimate heir . ’ |
2 | Years before , he had suddenly exclaimed with bitter irony , ‘ You are quite the plush gentleman and I am the black sheep . ’ |
3 | He is the New People and I am the Few . |
4 | ‘ Ilona and I are the new Adam and Eve , ’ he tells me . |
5 | ‘ Apart from a few people at the Kremlin and at Number Ten , you and I are the only people who know of the situation . ’ |
6 | Toby and I are the same , two people we were yesterday — we 're still your friends " " Not the same . |
7 | cos Edmund and I are the same age |
8 | Despite Bob 's protestations that he was staying in the Presidential Suite , was trying to avoid fans , and was actually the ‘ BAWB DYLAN ’ , the callow youth grabbed him by the scruff of his ketchup-stained hooded to and sneered , ‘ Oh yeah , and I 'm the Prime Minister Of Ireland , so I am ’ . |
9 | I 'm Jo Kelly and I 'm the Labour party candidate for Hereford . |
10 | and whenever get somefink and I 'm the best one in England . |
11 | I want it , I need it and I 'm the right person for it . |
12 | It was brilliant and I 'm the first to say it . |
13 | ‘ Carmen regards him as a kind of guru and I 'm the first to admit he 's been an invaluable catalyst in her career , but I wish he could talk about something other than medicine . ’ |
14 | ‘ This was a new award and I 'm the first to get it , ’ said Lee . |
15 | Mansell snapped : ‘ Hunt is the old champion and I 'm the new one . |
16 | And I 'm the nearest to you in blood . ’ |
17 | There are times when I go down to the beach at The Pit and I 'm the only surfer down there and I 'm so frustrated with it all that I sit on a rock and shout my head off . |
18 | " Maybe you 'd better do for me too , then , " Sam replied , " for it was my cockboat we rowed across in , and I 'm the only witness to the murder , for that 's what it was . |
19 | I was Flint 's first ship 's officer , and I 'm the only one who knows the place . |
20 | I mean , I have done a lot about it , and I 'm the only one that has , as I say , got my mouth going and done something about it . |
21 | And I 'm the only one who 's trying . ’ |
22 | ‘ But I 'm the only one who can light those fires , Aurora — and I 'm the only one who can quench them . ’ |
23 | I know , and I 'm the one hundredth and seventh person to do it |
24 | Not guilty , did n't do it that 's why what gorilla man did sickened me ; no blood well hardly any blood literally a drop , a drip , a fucking pixel on the screen and the only thing slicing into flesh was a needle , tiny and delicate not a chainsaw or an axe or a knife or anything , but it 's that image that idea that old devil meme , I keep dreaming about it , keep having nightmares about it , and I 'm the trapped one , I 'm the man in the leather-and-chrome chair and he 's there with his gorilla face and his squeaky baby voice , explaining to the camera that what he has in this bottle and in this syringe is sperm ; the crazy fucker 's loaded it up with jism man looks like half a fucking milk bottle of the stuff and he 's going to inject it into the little guy 's veins and he ties something round the naked upper arm of the little guy strapped to the chair and pulls it tight and waits for the vein to show while the little guy howls and screams like a child and tries to shake the chair to bits or rip it apart but he 's too well strapped in there no purchase no leverage and then the man in the gorilla mask just does it ; sinks the needle into the little guy 's skin with a bit of blood and empties the whole syringe into him . |
25 | and I 'm the opposite |
26 | If he 's never caught his breath at the sight of your crooked smile , or felt his heart lurch with love at the sound of your voice , or watched you walk across a room and wanted you and finally found out that you return his feelings , then he 's a poor man and I 'm the richest man in the world . |
27 | Derby manager Harry Storer swanked in those days : ‘ I have a team of bastards — and I 'm the biggest bastard of them all . ’ |
28 | and I 'm the mail-out coordinator we 've we 've so far mailed out all but one of the of the new magazines and er we did n't do the last one but we 're we 're scheduling up for doing this one . |
29 | ‘ And I 'm the next best thing ? ’ |
30 | I 'm Colin Shepherd and I 'm the Conservative Party Candidate for Hereford . |