Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | aye but I mean some of them are on this Committee as well I mean Wendy and I for a start erm so that would be good right let's try and give that one a |
| 2 | ‘ How long have I been like this ? ’ she asked in one interval . |
| 3 | ‘ That is because I am under this roof . ’ |
| 4 | Looking at her he thought , ‘ Do I realize how important I am to this woman ? |
| 5 | ‘ I am as sure of it as I am of this water . ’ |
| 6 | Almost as frightened as I am of this gang . ’ |
| 7 | I have no doubt that there are many colleagues more expert than I am on this subject already planning their drafts ! |
| 8 | I do n't know where I am with this girl , that 's the trouble . |
| 9 | No matter how careful I am with this lead it gets a knot in it . |
| 10 | ‘ IT 'S NOT the number of winners I am after this year . |
| 11 | I am not always against high-risk investments : I am against this one . ’ |
| 12 | Tho' I highly respect Mrs. Leapor 's character from the account you give of it , yet as she was absolutely unknown to myself , and I am but little acquainted even with her writings , I am upon this account as well as many others , entirely unfit for such an undertaking as you propose . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , as long as I am in this world I remain a sinner , still capable of letting him down . |
| 14 | But it 's kind of a shame , because I 'm only one element of blackness that you can see on television , and I 'll tell you , if I 'd been a kid and seen someone like me on telly , I 'd be a hell of a lot happier about the way I am in this world . ’ |
| 15 | I no more say who I am in this case than I say I 'm off to my wife 's right in the lost-in-cloud case . |
| 16 | This is one illustration of the process which Bartlett ( 1932 ) called ‘ turning round on one 's own schemata ’ — ‘ I am in this state therefore this must be so ’ rather than the direct retrieval from a store . |
| 17 | Never fear , my friend , I am in this as anxiously and earnestly as you . |
| 18 | Our recruitment to English ( and it is with English that I am in this paper principally concerned ) was again untypical . |
| 19 | So here I am in this damp cell now . |
| 20 | Why should I be like this ? ’ |
| 21 | As soon as I 'm over this bit , we 'll just melt away in the fog one morning and send everybody postcards . |
| 22 | Aggie pointed to the seat at the front of the cart , and immediately Millie had done so , she gripped the iron frame of the seat , heaved herself on to the first step , then , almost with a lunge , on to the seat ; but this time she did n't say , as she usually did , ‘ I 'm past this ; I 'll sit on the back in future and you 'll take him , ’ but she jerked the reins and put the pony into a trot . |
| 23 | I 'm into this not famous er rubbish . |
| 24 | I like this part of the world now , I 'm into this bit . |
| 25 | ‘ May I come in here : I 'm on this scheme for tonight . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I know I wo n't keep doing it at this rate but while I 'm on this streak I 'll take full advantage of it . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm on this milk shake diet , and it 's really working . |
| 28 | ‘ We 'll be able to go out a bit while I 'm on this early shift , ’ she said consolingly . |
| 29 | Erm , I 'm on this occasion I 'll keep as close to this as I can possibly go . |
| 30 | I was n't going to finish until now , I 'm on this |