Example sentences of "i [be] [art] [noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 Because I am a writer caught up willy-nilly in the polluted air of our own times , because I can not avoid entirely the language , assumptions , behaviour and weirdly chiliastic bombast so typical of a corrupted age , I can force myself to imagine by what tormented mental process an educated and rational man of some sensibility moves from the cerebral subtleties of Keynsian economics to the animal crudities of purchasing unsatisfactory and momentary sexual release from a cheap little whore .
2 I am the fountain sealed up , the walled garden where the lord Christ takes his rest at noon ; I am my Own grille and enclosure and the desperate bride vowed to him who blesses my chains .
3 I 'm a bit run down that 's all .
4 I 'm a bit stirred up just now and find myself unable to control those feelings that ought to be controlled . ’
5 and I 've I 've phoned three or four times and you can get no reply and I 'm , I 'm a bit cheesed off with it cos this is the second time
6 Erm , but sole , we 're looking at sole proprietor as well , there 's some good things in that , I E they 're cheap to set up , stuff like that , so they 're not bad as they go , but , I suppose well I 'll have to sell when I 've got more money , I did n't get any replies today not a single blooming one , I 'm a bit cheesed off , so erm , I think I might ring back that one of the ones that I did get a reply from and say thank you .
7 I 'm a bit turned off by some of the things I see .
8 Fact is , I 'm a bit pissed off at home . ’
9 I 'm sorry if I 'm a bit switched off I do n't what you 've been doing !
10 Well I 'm , I 'm the Chairman carry on so to carry on .
11 But even so , when Angie first materialised I suppose I was a bit put out for two or three days .
12 I was a bit pissed off , ’ said my dad .
13 well erm I was n't being assertive I was a bit walked over
14 ‘ One day , ’ as one Pakistani girl in Bradford said , ‘ I was a child playing out of doors , the next I was a married woman with a life full of work . ’
15 ‘ All right , I was a fool to blurt out what I did to William , but I 've paid the price , have n't I ?
16 And I must also add that I was a trifle put out , and surprised , because it seemed to me that he was turning down a good opportunity .
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