Example sentences of "i be [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Ardneavie House is big — at least ten bedrooms — and Lucinda and Jane and me are on the top floor with the boat's-crew Wrens . |
2 | And I 'm just want to draw your attention very quickly and I will emphasize that a lot of the information you 're hearing from me are in a brief sense , will be more than adequately covered when |
3 | ‘ Had I been in a civilian occupation , ’ he wrote , ‘ I should not have hesitated to pay the full amount . ’ |
4 | Sara and I are in the front bedroom . |
5 | I am about the only person who ca n't speak Portuguese here , even knows Spanish well , and is giving his course in Spanish . |
6 | ‘ Right now I am off the international scene . |
7 | If anyone rings and they do n't find me in , it 's not because I am at a wild party or something , it 's probably because I 'm shopping or walking my dog . ’ |
8 | ‘ I am ambitious and feel I am at the right age to go into management . |
9 | I am as an invalid housewife , unresourceful and unknowing , who leaves business to her husband . |
10 | That 's it yes ah I 'm connected with you I am on a cerebral plane connected with you our brains our interlinked you reach down you pick up the phone and you ring now . |
11 | I am on the radical wing of the ‘ leave-them-alone ’ camp and spurn the US Army research which proved that 80 percent of carefully burst blisters reattach to the skin over time . |
12 | Too late in the day because all the hotels are full and I end up tramping round in the dark , lugging my pack and money ( cash , a great wad of hard currency ) , nervous of the hatchet-faced youths who watch me meandering round , concentrating so intently on making it look as though I know exactly where I 'm heading that I soon have no idea where I am on the mapless streets of Algiers . |
13 | I suppose I am plump — according to the ‘ Height and Weight ’ charts I am on the heavy side of OK , but my weight has stayed the same since I was fourteen , so I know it 's not true that I 'm overeating , or greedy . |
14 | Ought to be scolding you , Rosette Fournier was saying , the way you 've forgotten us — well , here I am with an olive branch — |
15 | I am like a lonely child , unattended in the attic . |
16 | It is impossible to express the Hopes , the Fears , the various Conjectures , and Reveries , that your humble Servant must undergo this important Season , I am like the unhappy Gentleman mentioned in the Guardian ; and can scarce endure the bare Pronunciation of the Letter S : The hissing of the Tea-kettle distracts me ; and if I meet a Goose , I shun him as I would a Lion , or a Crocodile . |
17 | I suppose I am in a good position to weigh up the prospects of the major contenders in today 's race , at least , and I have no hesitation in declaring my delight at being on Docklands Express . |
18 | Your Royal Highness , ladies and gentlemen , as a minister , judge and professor , I feel I am in a good position to speak about the history of marriage , its importance in society , and the duties of the married couple to each other and the wider community . |
19 | I am in a good mood now . |
20 | I 'm divorced forty ye , I 'm a divorced forty year old woman with two grown up children and I am in a terrible situation . |
21 | I may be in a murderous place , but I am in a sensible country . |
22 | December 7 , 1786 : I am in a fair way of becoming as eminent as Thomas a Kempis or John Bunyan , and you may expect henceforth to see my birthday inserted among the wonderful events in the Poor Robin 's and Aberdeen Almanacks , along with the black Monday and the battle of Bothwell Bridge . |
23 | They perhaps take a little longer than anticipated , so when they eventually arrive an hour later than expected , the anxiety has been building up , and I am in a steamy temper . |
24 | It often gets me when I am in a high building or can look down over the city , or sometimes at a station when there is another journey to begin . |
25 | ‘ I am in a crazy mood today so let's all do the verse without the words ’ . |
26 | I never negotiated with Volvo and I am in a different position to Nick Faldo and Sandy Lyle . |
27 | Consider the statement that I am in a jolly mood , which clearly is not one of the chosen kinds . |
28 | ‘ If I am wearing a pure white carnation I am best avoided on that day because it means I am in a bad mood , ’ he said , adding that he always warns new acquaintances of this fact but has as yet not lived up to the threat . |
29 | I am in a little lane that runs across the front of the hillside , with a kind of broken roadway underfoot which disintegrates as I follow it into gravel studded with outcrops of manhole . |
30 | Or maybe I am in the perfect position to write it , as I have spent the last week slumped on the sofa , watching the war . |