Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another part of me is racist , probably because I 've hardly met any colored people and all I know of them is what I read in papers and see on television , where black people are usually talked of in terms of numbers and presumed guilty until proved innocent . |
| 2 | I 'm to forget that half of me is different . |
| 3 | Suffice it that I know that your true opinion of me is scornful in the extreme . ’ |
| 4 | Every aspect of me is wrong : the way I look , how I dress , what I eat , what I do … |
| 5 | Now I feel almost that that part of me is missing — is unexpressed , festering in the darkness . ’ |
| 6 | Then Paula died , and Sam disappeared , and I ca n't find him on Belial , and I ca n't find him on Moloch , and part of me is frightened that he might be dead , and part of me is frightened that he 's not . ’ |
| 7 | Then Paula died , and Sam disappeared , and I ca n't find him on Belial , and I ca n't find him on Moloch , and part of me is frightened that he might be dead , and part of me is frightened that he 's not . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I know your opinion of me is less than nothing , but do you truly think your cousin would continue to be my — er — lover , now that he knows I 'm engaged to you ? ’ |
| 9 | I ca n't remember any of the country because of me being such a young age , but my sister remembers more than I as she is older than myself . |
| 10 | When I did Beyond The Fringe , I was five foot two and the rest of them were all six foot , and a lot of my comedy came out of me being small . |
| 11 | At the moment the only thing making me write this essay is the thought of me being able to vegetate in front of the box tomorrow night and also , if I push my self and write three lines a minute I will be able to go to bed early and ease the strain and trauma of getting up in the morning and trudging off to another dreary day in school . |
| 12 | Three things about myself that might get in the way of me being assertive are : Three things about myself that will help me reach my goals are : |
| 13 | I am not saying that my trusting God was ‘ all up to me ’ , but that I had to see that all of me was involved in trusting God . |
| 14 | Part of me was anxious for Jean-Claude . |
| 15 | Everything went on as normal and I tried to be as pleasant as I could and as loving towards Anne as I had always been , but she must have noticed that a part of me was absent : simply somewhere else . |
| 16 | Her mouth was everywhere , biting me and sucking my mouth and kissing me , and her fingers pinched and stroked her legs coiled round my legs until every bit of me was throbbing and burning and twitching and I was only conscious of never wanting it to stop . |
| 17 | They 'd none of them been lucky with men . |
| 18 | Some of them 's one of the women had gained a pound . |
| 19 | Oh yes , yes she does , but , that 's about all she 's got two cousins , that 's right , and one of them 's married and got children and she used to have in the north , the great friend Sylvia from school days and Sylvia would of been one of the first Anglican Deacons to be ordained as a , as a priest |
| 20 | Well , it 's about these two women and one of them 's married and the other one 's , like , she 's got a boyfriend . |
| 21 | One of them 's old and one of them 's young , but I do n't think the young one could be the one you 're looking for , not unless she changed her trousers on the way down . ’ |
| 22 | I think one of them 's separated . |
| 23 | Well one of those Yeah , one of them 's negotiated and the other one is n't . |
| 24 | One of them 's old and one of them 's young , but I do n't think the young one could be the one you 're looking for , not unless she changed her trousers on the way down . ’ |
| 25 | But neither of them 's fit for ladies like yourselves . |
| 26 | Cos a lot of them 's open today ai n't they ? |
| 27 | Two is enough really but just to be on the safe side use three and if they do n't all lie in the same straight line then one of them 's wrong . |
| 28 | If they do n't then one of them 's wrong . |
| 29 | one of them 's wrong . |
| 30 | Only one of those five Councils is Labour controlled , the other four are Conservative , or indeed one of them 's Independent because the West Oxfordshire Councillors left the Tory Party because they were so disgusted with the Tory Government 's housing policy . |