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Example sentences of "i [be] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Had I been a few feet nearer the bomb I should have been blown to pieces — had I been a few feet further away I should have been cut to pieces by shrapnel .
2	Had I been a few feet nearer the bomb I should have been blown to pieces — had I been a few feet further away I should have been cut to pieces by shrapnel .
3	I am a thousand winds that blow I am the diamond glint on snow .
4	I am a 13 years old Andre Agassi fanatic who is very satisfied with the newsletters , and great photos .
5	However , if I talk about Tyneside when I am a few miles away in Teesside or Wearside , I am in real trouble .
6	‘ I feel staggered at being chosen as a winner , and it has made me really thrilled , even though I am a few years older than the others , ’ he said .
7	She thought : I am a few walls ' , stairways ' , rooms ' distance from him .
8	I am a lesbian women of colour whose children eat regularly because I work in a university .
9	I 'm a few minutes
10	I 'm a mad antiques fan .
11	As I , as I said earlier the new boy , the rather elderly new boy but I can assure the Professor if I were a hundred years old I 'd still be younger than 'im .
12	A bookmark showed the page : ‘ J'ai plus de souvenirs que si j'avais mille ans ’ — ‘ I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old . ’
13	‘ Sorry , Candy , I was a million miles away . ’
14	And I was a young men in my prime !
15	‘ If I was a few years younger , I 'd be a hooker , ’ said Constance , stretching .
16	It would have been nice if it had been a decade to the day since the dog died that I exhumed its skull , but in fact I was a few months late .
17	‘ And then there 's George Harrison on ‘ All Things Must Pass ’ , and The Stones ; I was a massive Stones fan , and like a lot of white middle-class American kids , it was The Stones that led me back into listening to a lot of early blues .