Example sentences of "i be [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am one in a row of specimens . |
| 2 | You will see I am something of a democrat . ’ |
| 3 | I do n't mind telling you , I am something of an expert at swimming myself , and I know some smashing spots for a jolly good sssplash up . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I am nothing of the sort ! |
| 5 | I am nothing but a stomach of cheap tin , empty but for the clanking of a few tin cans which have been squashed by a gargantuan hand and thrown together . |
| 6 | How dare you lay claim to me , as if I am yours for the taking ? ’ |
| 7 | I still do n't believe in God but now I 'm something of a cross between a Buddhist and a Quaker with pantheist leanings . ’ |
| 8 | With the Ellis family finances being in a perpetual state of crisis , I 'm something of an expert in the subject of raising an overdraft . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm one for the ready , Mr Five Per Cent , ’ he said to me in his amusing way . ’ |
| 10 | I 'm nothing but a small-time gangster 's moll . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm nothing but a nuisance to you . |
| 12 | But no one here has treated me as though I were anything but a permanent staff member , so do n't have any worries on that score . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ For many years people thought I was something of a rebel or a madman , ’ Annesley recalled . |
| 14 | I informed Mr Kagan that I was something of a heretic so far as the minutiae of the Jewish faith were concerned ; on the other hand , I said , I had never concealed that I was a loyal member of the faith , and so I would be happy to have the boy to tea and talk to him about Judaism in general terms . |
| 15 | I was something of a child prodigy . |
| 16 | So I was something of a godsend for her . |
| 17 | Even though as a graduate I was something of an oddity , I was absorbed into the background after a time and people treated me as one of them . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I was cast opposite him but I was nothing like the draw he was and we had had a dodgy time on tour . |