Example sentences of "i be a [adj] person " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mind you , travel was very much an academic thing for me until the television programme and even now I can scarcely say I am a travelled person . |
| 2 | ‘ The fact that there is a piece of legal documentation saying I must not molest or attack my ex-wife or her family is a slur on my name and gives the impression that I am a violent person . |
| 3 | But one thing prison 's taught me is to be very strong , and that I am a worthwhile person . |
| 4 | I am a moral person . |
| 5 | I enjoyed it and I think I am a better person for it . |
| 6 | You could say that to me now , now that I understand how much you loved me , now that I have suffered , now that I am a better person . |
| 7 | One day I will settle down , as they say , and raise a family and I look forward to it , for basically I am a home-loving person . |
| 8 | I am a soft person |
| 9 | ‘ I am a different person when I am at work on the Geest or on the heath or in the dunes . |
| 10 | I think I am a different person now . ’ |
| 11 | It is in the darkest , unprogressive times that I return to base and say ‘ baptizatus sum ’ ‘ I am a baptized person ’ — and that is sheer gift and grace . |
| 12 | I was sad about this because I am a clubbable person by nature , and have never regarded a game of golf as anything but an occasion of pleasurable social exchange ; but an end to Muirfield was the price I had to pay for the championing of Meehan 's cause . |
| 13 | I am a self-contained person : neat and elegant : or was until I met Eleanor , who , disgraced , childless , alone , sprawled and wriggled against the shiny black sofa with the big red flowers , and I knew I would rather be her , her life out of control , than me as I was with Lou ; a woman whom an editor could describe as ‘ the mistress of controlled reportage ’ . |
| 14 | I am a satisfied person |
| 15 | — I 'm a simple person , said Davin . |
| 16 | I 'm a big-mouth person , I love trouble . |
| 17 | I 'm a greedy person as you can see , look at the size of me . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm a tidy person , I like my whisky neat . ’ |
| 19 | You saying I 'm a passive person ? |
| 20 | I 'm a loyal person , though , and he can rely on me even if he has hurt my feelings . |
| 21 | But as I say , I 'm a loyal person and I 'll wait and make his life worth living when he comes out . |
| 22 | I 'm a nice person , but when I get going I 'm like a madwoman . |
| 23 | I I just appealing for MPs and I know you have the radio on just to see if I 'm being rude about you , and of course I never am because I 'm a I 'm a nice person . |
| 24 | I happen to drive a very small car er a Fiat one , two , six and you ca n't get much smaller than that and I am much more aggressive when I 'm driving that for the simple reason I think its this sort of principle although I 'm nearly six foot in that I 'm a small person and the small person mentality comes out because I get cut up continuously , they do n't do that when I 'm driving my husband 's car which is a Volvo , er they will cut in front of me , I do n't think they , if they knew what my brakes were like they would n't do it . |
| 25 | I 'm a poor person to talk about his work really , because I do n't understand the open air . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm a lousy person , ’ she said . |
| 27 | Similarly , one minute I 'm a busy wide-awake person , and the next , when the decision has been made to go to sleep , I 'm a wide-awake person lying down in bed . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm a placid person , ’ she said deprecatingly , ‘ I have to be . |
| 29 | ‘ Each operation is difficult to go through , but I 'm a strong person , ’ she says . |
| 30 | Think about those good points ( I am well organised ; I 'm a caring person and so on ) and give yourself as much credit as you would give someone else with those qualities ; |