Example sentences of "[pron] [am/are] [vb pp] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difference between you and most other women is that not many of them are granted the opportunity to actually indulge their nostalgia , save mentally . |
| 2 | I have a battle to win and would ask only that I am given the chance to do so without intrusion in my private life . |
| 3 | The gentleman with the white waistcoat was standing at the gate with his hands behind him after having delivered himself having witnessed with the donkey he smiled rejoicedly when that the door , he saw at once it was Mr Mr smiled as he pursued the I am said the gentleman in the white waistcoat |
| 4 | This being Ma 's first day back , I am excused the dark , which I so richly deserve … |
| 5 | It would have served as a substitute-gratification for their own sadism ( i.e. , ‘ I can not retaliate against my father , but I can against my younger brother ’ ) ; but also as a defence on the part of the ego ( i.e. , ‘ I am spared the anxiety of being made the object of an attack if I can instead become the attacker ’ ) ; finally , it would also have contributed a first , rudimentary focus for the superego ( i.e. , ‘ My father is not now the attacker — I am — hence I am to that extent my father ! ’ ) . |
| 6 | I AM disgusted the governor of Crumlin Road Prison stopped Loyalist inmates wearing poppies . |
| 7 | I am told the guardian ad litem needs approximately 14 days to prepare an up to date report , which I will order to be prepared . |
| 8 | I am told the sky was brilliant and alive with red and green and white flares . |
| 9 | Julie Burchill turns to thriller writing with No Exit ( Mandarin ) ; I am told the sex is there but nowhere near as over the top as in Ambition , but I have n't read it . |
| 10 | Now that I have also fitted 750 x 16 SAT tyres the vehicle is very sluggish , I am told the solution would be to change the diffs , but to which ones ? |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm assured the thing is what they call user friendly . ’ |
| 12 | I believe that if I 'm given the chance to fight the George Forman of old , the George Forman of today would be the better . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm told the Peer does n't expect the French to move till July . ’ |
| 14 | I 'm told the press is at a loss , finding little of sufficient calibre elsewhere in publishing to satisfy its extremely demanding requirements . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm told the school was once part of the mainland . ’ |
| 16 | I 'm told the restaurant there is good . ’ |
| 17 | I 'm told the heir 's not an ill-looking lad . |
| 18 | I am going to go into town more , on my night off , and just hang around where I 'm told the prostitutes stand . |
| 19 | I 'm told the nursemaid takes the child 's food away from him after he 's taken only a bite or so . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm told the baby 's very small , ’ the priest said . |
| 21 | Luckily , David Norbrook has , in his own words , been ‘ greedily inclusive ’ in his Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse , so I 'm spared the temptation to bore you with a shopping-list of titles that should have gone in but did n't . |
| 22 | I I would do it if I 'm offered the opportunity . |
| 23 | On polling day , the elector is faced with a small ballot slip on which are printed the names usually of only three or four candidates ( Six or more candidates standing in any one constituency would be unusual . ) |
| 24 | This threefold division is maintained in the completed organ which is divided into corresponding regions which are designated the protocerebrum , the deutocerebrum and the tritocerebrum respectively , though the division is not always apparent externally . |
| 25 | It consists of one huge room with a hemispherical vault on which are displayed the stars and planets . |
| 26 | It now seems likely that the eukaryotic cell itself — the basic structure from which are constructed the bodies of all animals , plants , and fungi — originally evolved as a symbiotic association between various bacteria ; that is , between various different prokaryotes . |
| 27 | These stands can hold several hundred strips , on which are typed the guest 's name , initials , room number . |
| 28 | As I write , I can think of a couple of billboard posters that make no attempt to conceal their debt to the Belgian fantasist : a Silk Cut advertisement , which discards the regular purple silk motif in favour of a neutral cream back ground on which are set the letters P U R P L and E , snipped from some newspaper 's headlines as if by a poison pen writer ; and another whose legend , ‘ I did n't know that Air France had more flights to Paris than any other airline company ’ , is illustrated by the portrait of a man whose face is obscured by a fried egg . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , the County Council believes it has gone as far as its possibly can to recognize and respond to the district 's problems , and that it can not justify moving any closer in reducing the gap between the recommended allocation of a hundred and thirty two hectares and the two hundred to two hundred and fifty hectares which are requested the District Council . |
| 30 | Mordovia is the cesspit into which are flushed the malcontents and malefactors of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics . |