Example sentences of "[pron] [am/are] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thursdays for me are mainly rest days . |
| 2 | They , the vast majority of them are not Shire Hall based er , administrative staff or what I think is generally er , the view , er , the general view of , of management and support . |
| 3 | Do you want a fire retardant one or just in interestingly enough , the ones that have got price offers on them are n't fire retardant . |
| 4 | Well they did a lot of them are actually country songs that were like Old Flames and and even the Black Sheep was was an American song which we you know and yes you know if you send them back to America , Old Flames for instance is often back on the American those that played on the Irish programme . |
| 5 | Some of them are only fighting because they think they 've got nothing left to lose . ’ |
| 6 | Caro and I are not blood relations . |
| 7 | Deep down my wife thinks that I 'm a pessimist , bad-tempered all the time — which I am when work is n't going well . |
| 8 | Deep down my wife thinks that I 'm a pessimist , bad-tempered all the time — which I am when work is n't going well . |
| 9 | By my husband 's will , and the custom of his house , all his manor and lands go to his nephew and heir , and I am without purpose in the household longer . |
| 10 | As I am without sanctuary , so I am without gratitude . |
| 11 | As I am without sanctuary , so I am without gratitude . |
| 12 | Some , at least , of this confusion and inconsistency arise out of misunderstanding as to what is meant by Wages for Housework , so before proceeding any further I propose to change the term in order to indicate ( a ) that I am not spokeswoman for , nor even in complete agreement with , the campaign of that name ; ( b ) that I do not propose to be sidetracked into an interesting discussion of the precise scientific definition of ‘ wage ’ ; what I am talking about is cash , money , pound notes , that to which a housewife is not entitled , that to which she should be ; and ( c ) that there is housework and housework . |
| 13 | I am not expert enough to say which of the banding systems best fits the bill . |
| 14 | ‘ I am not policeman , ’ he said . |
| 15 | ‘ I am not cross . |
| 16 | I am not flavour of the week in some quarters as you may well imagine . |
| 17 | ‘ I am not family ! ’ |
| 18 | I am now part of a small multi-cultural group which has been asked to take on this task . |
| 19 | I too , feel sensitive to the prospecting evaluative probe : the course I am now running has not yet completed its first year . |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , I am more man than that and I have no intention of destroying your business . |
| 21 | well , I er it it I am only reading what er their joint statement said . |
| 22 | ‘ I am only cold , ’ I said . |
| 23 | When I listen to my radio I am only marking time . |
| 24 | Until I 'm safe in my grave — where I long to be , let me tell you ! — I am still mistress here . ’ |
| 25 | While I owe much to that tradition and trust that I am still persona grata within it , in many respects I have gone beyond Evangelical thought on matters to do with the Church and sacraments . |
| 26 | Now it is Laci who initiates the great ideas , but I am always part of the realisation . |
| 27 | Q. I intend to make a venturi to fit into a transfer pipe from one filter to the next , to allow the introduction of air into the system I am currently building . |
| 28 | ‘ I am constantly painting , scrubbing out and reworking areas of a picture and often marvellous unexpected results will emerge ’ explained Mick Rooney when Julian Halsby asked him about his working methods in this special interview for The Artist |
| 29 | I am constantly painting , scrubbing out and reworking areas of a picture and often marvellous unexpected results will emerge . |
| 30 | I am therefore bliss for poor old Gooseneck , who this week has already suffered five losses . |