Example sentences of "i [be] [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 . |
| 15 | Soon Jacob and I were out on the lonely , snow-covered hills . |
| 16 | Well the next morning I was up at the top gate on picket and erm came with his van and he he spelted up through and the lads jumped one side well , I 'm nearly sixty five I did n't jump so quickly . |
| 17 | But I was up against a big , strong lad called Eddie Evans in the Canada game and that was very hard work . |
| 18 | Yeah , I know th th th there 's three floors of it and I was , I was on like the bottom floor so |
| 19 | I enrolled for ‘ Art for Beginners ’ and later went down to the centre where the tutor had obtained a model for us from whom to do quick sketches — so I was in at the deep end . |
| 20 | Most of the Labour front bench , including Neil Kinnock , were in their places and the predictions were that I was in for a stormy time . |
| 21 | Too soon , I was out on the other side , dazzled , like a man leaving a cinema in the afternoon . |
| 22 | So so really you 've got er I was out on the medical practices so I know how successful that can be . |
| 23 | Yet she would have been upstairs with the old man before I was out of the moonlit yard . |
| 24 | Not until I was out in the open countryside again , reassured by the songs of the birds and the murmur of streams did I feel that I had emerged from a dream and rejoined the familiar twentieth century . |
| 25 | I thought I was off on the usual , rather tedious type of assignment ! |
| 26 | Ten minutes later I was down on the private beach . |
| 27 | The hour winged past and it seemed no time at all before I was back on the top road waiting in the gathering darkness for the Scarborough bus . |
| 28 | By the 8th June , I was back in the front line . |
| 29 | So by November of the year I left Cambridge I was back in the black — being in the West End had enabled me to pay the overdraft off . |
| 30 | Continuing on past the huge oak door I had observed from the outside was another passage leading to a cloakroom , as the euphemism goes , otherwise a loo and wash basin and turning right I was back in the main area . |