Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ All of them are given a warm Irish welcome to make them feel at home . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I been having a little think , ’ said Ron Paget . |
| 3 | He was pleased with his performance and said : ‘ I am playing well but I am lacking a little bit of killer instinct . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I find I am learning a great deal . ’ |
| 5 | Jackie is wearing a red tee-shirt and I am wearing a blue one . |
| 6 | ‘ If I am wearing a pure white carnation I am best avoided on that day because it means I am in a bad mood , ’ he said , adding that he always warns new acquaintances of this fact but has as yet not lived up to the threat . |
| 7 | I am wearing a shiny souwester ; |
| 8 | The cook 's latest masterpiece languishes in my stomach , and I am drinking a river-cooled beer . |
| 9 | I am building a new pond in an L shape . |
| 10 | In fact I am developing a revealing , but ultimately frustrating line of correspondence with the Welsh Office and I would be grateful if you could take a look at the enclosed letter copies . |
| 11 | And it is still if , not when though in this article I am assuming a working Tory majority in the Commons rather than a hung Parliament , which would change everything . |
| 12 | Corden said : ‘ I do n't want people to think I am deserting a sinking ship . |
| 13 | ‘ You know my nightmare — that I am seeing a dead boy ( whom I never recognize ) on the ground at my feet . |
| 14 | But by the summer I am writing a homosexual love-story which I preface with the following remark : |
| 15 | I am attaching a complete list of the personnel in the film unit . |
| 16 | Actually , I am trying a new strategy . |
| 17 | We were talking about your career , in which I am taking a fatherly interest . |
| 18 | I have stressed that I am taking a particular linguistic phenomenon , deixis , and examining its occurrences and behaviour in a specific genre . |
| 19 | These parties of mine have become something of an institution , and I am expecting a large number of people to come in and give their comments on the results in various constituencies . |
| 20 | Putting it more generally , I am suggesting a major difference in ‘ compromisability ’ between different kinds of goals . |
| 21 | It is a matter for the individual conscience of every hon. Member , which is precisely why I am allowing a free vote by my Ministers on the Bill . |
| 22 | I can hardly believe I am addressing a married lady ! |
| 23 | Moods also do that to me , and I am fighting a dark one . |
| 24 | But also I am suffering a pleasurable and painful feeling , a feeling so often made banal by film , of time reprieved and relived . |
| 25 | At the moment I am examining a large number of detailed proposals that have been put to me . |
| 26 | Furthermore , in view of the late start and the number of hon. Members who wish to participate , I am putting a precautionary limit of 10 minutes on speeches between 7 o'clock and 9 o'clock . |
| 27 | Tension can be created either by the sponsor 's subtle , superior position of detachment : ‘ I am only here to describe the problems ; you are the ones who will have to face them ’ , or , quite differently , a hint of ‘ I know more than I am going to tell ’ , or its cruder version : ‘ I am doing a good salesman 's job and you are going to fall for it ’ . |
| 28 | Before I call the Secretary of State for Employment , I must tell the House that because of the numbers of right hon. and hon. Members who wish to participate in today 's debate , I am placing a precautionary limit of 10 minutes on speeches between 7 and 9 pm . |
| 29 | I am presenting a supposed ‘ hidden ’ disability and the marks of struggle against the medical or cultural discourses . |
| 30 | I am presenting a supposed ‘ hidden ’ disability and the marks of struggle against the medical or cultural discourses . |