Example sentences of "i [am/are] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I am over at the big house within a couple of minutes , kilt on , best sporran and carrying the bagpipes , and prepared for anything .
2 I am back in the little room at the top of the spiral staircase on Wednesday morning and I am sitting on the Squeez-Ee box , with the minute in front of me , going through the remaining contents of the Quaker Oats archive , page by dusty page .
3 I 'm up against the six footer , and a five foot ten wife
4 I 'm off for a few days again so i 'll be a bit quiet .
5 About-to-be-ex-Lit-Ed , actually , come early January ( I 'm off to the Independent Magazine , which , although it 's the most literary colour supplement in town , does not and will not run book reviews ) ; but while there is a breath of bookish discernment left in my body , I suggest the following thoughts about the spring lists .
6 I know I 'm in for a long night .
7 Ed was just like a one off and I 'm not forward any more at all and , you know , everyone thinks I am you know and Pete thought right I 'm in for a good time here , you know , I can probably get her you know , and so Charlie would have to carry out his part .
8 That evening is I crouched at the back of the slit trench , swatting the mauses and listening to the sound of shells passing over and the rain dripping steadily in through the entrance to the trench , I stared at the pool of water getting larger and hoped that the rain would soon stop , if it does n't I 'm in for an uncomfortable night .
9 At any rate , I reckon I 'm in with a sporting chance .
10 But then I started putting humbuckers in all my guitars and now I 'm back to the single coil thing , but just for playing in my hotel room .
11 But fuck it ; at least I 'm back in the real world , and with a modicum of control .
12 Do you know I 've had a blue pen , I 've had a black pen and now I 'm down to a bloody pencil .
13 I 'm out of the multi-storey now and still running , though slower .
14 Cos I was going out in the fresh air , I 'm alright when I 'm out in the fresh air .
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