Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [verb] [adv prt] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , my corresponding Ego fantasy is of losing my wits to such an extent that I am unable to work ; I am living in a filthy bedsit and the floor is strewn with pieces of paper that I am unable to make sense of , final demands which have not been paid , dirty clothes , plants which have fallen over , unwashed plates and mugs — and I am curled up in a foetal ball , wishing the world would go away ! |
| 2 | I am curled up in the armchair , flicking through a book . |
| 3 | ‘ The plain fact is , ’ Niki noted , ‘ that I am caught up in an insane series of setbacks which are oppressive in their consistency and which seem to … prey on my mind . |
| 4 | Does this mean that as I am going up in the lift , I see it expanding ? ’ |
| 5 | Mr. Chairman , ladies and gentlemen , it is n't that I would like to say a word , it is that told me to say a word , and I realise I am starting off in the right way . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm stopping up in the wood . ’ |
| 7 | I do n't know what 's happening to me — I feel as if I 'm walking round in a dream . |
| 8 | So she said I 'm coming up in a fortnight 's time the fourteenth cos it 's David 's birthday that week |
| 9 | Yes I 'm coming down in a moment . |
| 10 | I 'm going up in the bedroom next . |
| 11 | No , he came out for about ten minutes then he said I 'm going back in the house mummy , just then flopped on the chair |
| 12 | I said to her , ‘ Look I 'm going out in a couple of weeks , you must tell me exactly what happened so I can tell the papers about it . ’ |
| 13 | I 'm going out in the middle of a field . |
| 14 | she said and now I 'm finishing school I still need them sometimes for a meal and then I 'm going out in the W R V S shop , something like that in the chain , |
| 15 | So I was laid out in the back of the van on the bed and he 's driving down this field to put the tent , because it had little er bits you know where it 's marked out for you to camp , and I 'm driving around in the back saying , yes you 've , you 've just missed the fence there and you know . |
| 16 | My brother and I were brought up in the Catholic faith . |
| 17 | In 1672 , for example , the Dutch Cromwell , de Witt , was torn limb from limb in the street by a frenzied mob , and in 1986 I was beaten up in a bar . |
| 18 | There was also the night when I was buzzing round in the office car , making the routine late calls at the district police stations and ambulance headquarters in Cardiff , just before midnight . |
| 19 | But then , having exhausted his recollections of the circumstances of his writing the paper , he switched to more personal matters and enquired carefully how I was getting on in a way that made me reel that my mission had been worthwhile and that I had by no means wasted his morning . |
| 20 | ‘ I was locked up in a room with a ghost , in the dark . ’ |
| 21 | I was wrapped up in an officer 's uniform ; you could n't see me for fur and leather . |
| 22 | I was brought up in a generation where there were only two kinds of girls — girls who did and girls who did n't . |
| 23 | I was brought up in a hard school , Mrs Willow , and I do n't forget it . |
| 24 | I think with erm , I I was brought up in a household where it was com , completely legitimate to admit to being depressed and that you would just have to cope , I think cope perhaps my most |
| 25 | I was brought up in a pit village near Bishop Auckland and I never knew my father . |
| 26 | But I was brought up in a Catholic Home you see . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , I was brought up in a vicarage myself and know how things are or can be , ’ he said confusedly . |
| 28 | No heroes or heroines from TV ever entered my world , for I was brought up in a society that banned television . |
| 29 | I was brought up in a different era where you had to entertain yourself . |
| 30 | It is simply that I was brought up in the East of Scotland and have lived in places whither the Orangemen walketh not , neither in triumph nor provocation . |