Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I 've accepted it as fate that people are building me up to knock me down . |
| 2 | Since then , this deserted corner of King 's Reach Tower has been my spiritual home , but I gradually overcame the contemptuous disdain which is heaped on all outsiders and now , finally , I feel the natives are accepting me as one of their own . |
| 3 | The hours which are wasting him away also seem to have a mental effect on Tithonus as well . |
| 4 | ‘ And how anxious I am to see her again ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Sense and Memory of things , which are common to man and all living creatures ’ are knowledge , but ‘ because they are given us immediately by nature , and not gotten by ratiocination , they are not philosophy . ’ |
| 6 | And I am seeing him again on Sunday . |
| 7 | In our work we can not for a moment disregard them , yet we are never sure that we are seeing them clearly . |
| 8 | ‘ The Finns are seeing them off , or so the papers say . ’ |
| 9 | Bad when we meet someone at the station , but unbearable when we are seeing them off ; not present when we are departing ourselves , but unbearable when arriving in London , if only from a day in Brighton . ’ |
| 10 | When you look down , when you are seeing it in on the television pictures , you look down from an aerial view . |
| 11 | If we need people with financial experience and managerial experience , then appoint them to the local to the Police Committee , given them a job to do , they 're the ones that are should advise the Chief Constable and the Police Committee as to whether they 're spending the right of money on computers and are using it properly , not whether they 're using them operationally correctly . |
| 12 | The effect , claims Wren , has been significant : ‘ Staff are using it much more than they used to . ’ |
| 13 | Even in its innocent context near the start of Volume One , when the hobbits are using it only to help themselves along , it has an odd ring . |
| 14 | I tell Fairfax a great deal more than I had intended , but I believe our confidences are drawing us together . |
| 15 | While I ca n't condone this sort of cheating Mr Unce , I have found two very good methods are tucking them down your sock or writing them on your shirt cuff . |
| 16 | You are to instruct them not to respond to Moslem provocation . |
| 17 | It is an exploration of [ a ] vocabulary … which has been inherited within precise social and historical conditions and which has to be made at once conscious and critical — subject to change as well as continuity — if the millions of people in whom it is active are to see it as active : not as a tradition to be learned , nor a consensus to be accepted ; … but as a vocabulary to use , to find our ways in , to change as we find it necessary to change it , as we go on making our own language and history . |
| 18 | So I 'm saying to Graham , come on , we 're helping you , you are helping us obviously , I 'm not gon na deny the fact you 're helping us with our research . |
| 19 | But I would be surprised if I did after this year , although , at this stage , I am still playing well enough and I am enjoying it enough so that if I want to play another tournament , I can . ’ |
| 20 | But I would be surprised if I did after this year , although , at this stage , I am still playing well enough and I am enjoying it enough so that if I want to play another tournament , I can . ’ |
| 21 | P.S. They cook good western food here , and I am enjoying it now and then as a change from Chinese . |
| 22 | ‘ You two are cheering me up too much and I ca n't stand the excitement . ’ |
| 23 | I am eating it really . |
| 24 | Although many of them have been answered already in an expanded form elsewhere in the book , we are including them again here in a more concise form for easy reference . |
| 25 | ‘ They are enjoying it quietly , ’ said Owen soothingly . |
| 26 | If things are happening I just leave them alone — I do n't touch it at all . |
| 27 | ‘ We have got another 48 hours before we leave and John could have had treatment here , but Liverpool are ruling him out . |
| 28 | We are applying it not to everyday life , but to that aspect of the performance mode that is , at least incipiently , present in dramatic playing . |
| 29 | If the coons get nicked they start complaining , saying the police are nicking them unfairly … |
| 30 | Or if liver and limb bud cells are mixed they too sort out into large clumps ; but they make neither a proper liver nor limbs . |