Example sentences of "i be [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 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 | Mark Calcavecchia and I are a good team ; we can relax with each other — that 's the key . " |
| 4 | ‘ Apart from a few people at the Kremlin and at Number Ten , you and I are the only people who know of the situation . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Ilona and I are the new Adam and Eve , ’ he tells me . |
| 6 | cos Edmund and I are the same age |
| 7 | Maybe so , I am no political pundit . |
| 8 | I am no molecular biologist , and would n't have dreamed of learning the techniques required to detect the immediate early genes , if it had n't been for the serendipitous arrival in the lab of a young molecular biologist from Moscow , Kostya Anokhin ( grandson of the psychologist and physiologist pupil of Pavlov , Peter Anokhin , whose ‘ functional systems theory ’ I referred to in passing in Chapter 9 ) . |
| 9 | I am no great lover or defender of the legal profession . |
| 10 | I am no great linguist but I still ca n't see how both Menes are represented , nor can I understand at all , how Daniel could have drawn from these three apparently simple words his full translation : ‘ God hath numbered thy kingdom and finished it . |
| 11 | Perhaps because I have proven I am no mere parasite , and have helped her knock out one dazzling 1,500-word column for Outsider in record time . |
| 12 | I am no such thing . |
| 13 | But I am no such creature , the king thought , burning in his own fury and grief , I can not be thus constantly outdone and bear no grudge . |
| 14 | Well , I am no medical man , but that is an understatement . |
| 15 | I am no blind mouldiwarp , my Lady , nor no well-trained lady 's maid to turn my head and not see what is stated not to concern me . |
| 16 | PAMELA : Why , Mrs. Jewkes , there can be only one reason , which is that I am a sad fool ! |
| 17 | I mean I am a mere officer who advises the Council , Bill , as you know . |
| 18 | ‘ You must not imagine that I am a pure woman . |
| 19 | I am a former management employee of Dorman Long 's Bridge and Constructional Works , Middlesbrough , who actually built this bridge and recall talking in the 1930s to men who had worked on it . |
| 20 | SIR — I am a former pupil of Summerhill School at Leiston , Suffolk ( television review , March 31 ) . |
| 21 | If we fail to take this opportunity Mr Mayor , as I as I feel we are about to do I am a hundred percent convinced that in years to come people will look back at this year , or however long it happens to be and say they missed out on a golden opportunity to make social , to make more houses and to make social housing better in this city and across the country . |
| 22 | I am a logical man , Mr. Gerrard , accustomed to presenting material in a concise , ordered and intelligible manner . |
| 23 | I am a working mother but the children rarely see me working . |
| 24 | ‘ I am a strange mixture of appearing to be a pleasant guy but behind it all I am pretty hard and often grumpy . |
| 25 | ‘ I am a poor widow . |
| 26 | I am a poor widow . |
| 27 | I am a poor widow . |
| 28 | I am a poor widow , |
| 29 | ‘ I am a poor orphan boy . |
| 30 | I am a poor Indian . |