Example sentences of "[conj] i [be] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I might be able to fetch my things from Crow Court where I am rooming a little later on , but as to work … ’ |
| 2 | I am going to go into town more , on my night off , and just hang around where I 'm told the prostitutes stand . |
| 3 | I stayed there only a few days , and then for some reason I was removed to the Colegio Fray Luis de Leon , where I was given a somewhat larger and more comfortable room . |
| 4 | Some sympathetic mothers covered it with bandages and bulging dressings and I was driven to the doctors ' where I was given a more impressive bandage , leaving my finger looking the size of a small banana . |
| 5 | Gray picks at a salad as she talks : ’ I did this one interview where I was eating a cheeseburger and this guy wrote all about the blob of ketchup oozing down my chin , ’ she says . |
| 6 | On my arrival I was taken straight to Sick Bay where I was to spend the night , as a billet had not yet been found for me . |
| 7 | It was very hot in the scout hut where I was watching the preparations , so the clay was constantly being sprayed to prevent it drying out . |
| 8 | David and I went to the travel agency where I was working a couple of times and kept saying , ‘ What are you doing here ? ’ |
| 9 | The reference to the ‘ friend ’ had to do with my association with the Speech Institute , where I was giving a course of lectures on what the Directress , Miss Marjorie Gullan , liked to call ‘ Modernist Poetry ’ ( for it was still considered that ‘ poetry ’ ended with the Georgians , whom we had all studied at school , and that Pound and Eliot were advanced experimenters ) . |
| 10 | The location was unusual : the consulting room of a medical specialist where I was to learn the cause of the unacceptably high level of pain from which my sister has suffered for the past five years . |
| 11 | Where I was doing the space walk . |
| 12 | I watched the strange smile on the American woman 's face — like the smile students wore in the movie-house at Toronto when they were watching some particularly syrupy moment from a corny trailer , extorted smiles , full of shame and self-consciousness , but the suppressed emotion sincere enough and shown unguarded in the darkness , except I was playing the voyeur . |
| 13 | However , although I am proposing a variationist view of language change , I have to deal with this in a context where the dominant tendency has been to focus on uniform states ( Weinreich , Labov and Herzog , 1968 ) . |
| 14 | And although I was sharing the pain with her , still I was exulting , because I had made her mine , and what I had had and what I had taken , no man ever in the world could have of her . |
| 15 | ‘ You will remember that although I was born a vicar 's daughter , I have seen quite a different level of life since then . |
| 16 | Although I was doing the same kind of of erm work . |
| 17 | ‘ All they 'll know is that I am escorting a companion who is totally irresistible , and they 'll fall for you as I have . ’ |
| 18 | I find that I am writing a kind of completely sterile account of their life . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ You know my nightmare — that I am seeing a dead boy ( whom I never recognize ) on the ground at my feet . |
| 21 | I have stressed that I am taking a particular linguistic phenomenon , deixis , and examining its occurrences and behaviour in a specific genre . |
| 22 | I know that I am providing an unusual excuse for those dastards interested in luring some member of the opposite sex into a dark and confined space , but I would be glad to hear about experimental results . |
| 23 | ‘ It is pointless and ill informed to say that I am entering a profession trained in killing , ’ he said in his defence . |
| 24 | In case you think that I am advocating a policy of lunatic aggression , no , I am not . |
| 25 | Really I think I am able to demonstrate in the written account of the research that I am presenting a very real account of their teaching and their problems , as well as their successes . |
| 26 | Really I think I am able to demonstrate in a written account of the research that I am presenting a very real account of their teaching and their problems , as well as their successes erm sometimes I was able to observe lessons that went wrong and were very erm difficult for the teachers , as well as the lessons that were successful , so I do n't really think it the problems at the end . |
| 27 | In answering the question posed by the preliminary issue in this case affirmatively I believe that I am doing no more than giving the answer that is clearly called for by application of the common law principles of the law of negligence . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , yes , I must admit , ’ replies management , ‘ that I am making a good thing out of this , the best break we have had for years — you see , my methods of production are so cheap and efficient . ’ |
| 29 | All the available funds should be targeted in that way to ensure that we achieve the best social return on the available resources — If Conservative Members think that I am making a partisan point , I invite the Secretary of State for the Environment to move beyond the Municipal Journal . |
| 30 | IT IS more than possible that I am missing a point , showing a lack of imagination , remaining in the Middle Ages and have my feet firmly stuck in the mud when I am under the impression they are just on the ground . |