Example sentences of "i [be] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 I am nothing of the sort !
2 How dare you lay claim to me , as if I am yours for the taking ? ’
3 I 'm one for the ready , Mr Five Per Cent , ’ he said to me in his amusing way . ’
4 But I was one with the solitaries of the spirit , too : with St Teresa and St John of the Cross as well as with humbler dissidents like Jordi and one or two other men of the working class I had known in Spain , the young bank clerk I had met in Cordoba the previous spring , among the orange and lilac blossom of Las Tendillas , where we walked and whispered , hardly daring to look at one another , and separating at the sight of police .
5 I was cast opposite him but I was nothing like the draw he was and we had had a dodgy time on tour .
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