Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Which of them are offering the best value ? |
2 | Amongst them are found the last adepts of controlled altered states , out-of-the-body experience , psycho-navigation , environmental wisdom and time-honoured alternative methods of giving birth , healing , living and dying . |
3 | Eyes sparkling , Vicky told me : ‘ Laurence and I are to spend the whole day together . ’ |
4 | I am creating the perfect relationship inspired by the statement ‘ feel the fear and do it anyway . ’ |
5 | ‘ I am to give the first reading . |
6 | Even as I am recounting the edited version , it occurs to me that Fairfax has probably been doing the same thing . |
7 | I am emphasising the existential quality of dramatic playing here because it is in direct contrast to the expectations of acting behaviour to be found in some educational institutions . |
8 | When finally a small boy was sent to ask him what he was up to , he replied : ‘ Here I am building the biggest , the best kiln Hua Xian has ever seen ’ . |
9 | So I am telling the honourable gentleman yes indeed there there is a precedent . |
10 | Through you , Mr. Speaker , I am telling the hon. Member for Workington ( Mr. Campbell-Savours ) where the money has gone . |
11 | I am telling the hon. Gentleman what happened . |
12 | And Petrarch lived quite near here in Avignon , and I am seeing the same cypresses and oleanders … |
13 | Then it happens to another dancer and , as I am watching the same pattern of recovery , the man next to me throws his arms into the air , totters forward and begins to experience apparently involuntary spasms . |
14 | PS I am attaching the relevant sections of the script |
15 | So came what I am calling the liberal state . |
16 | I am evaluating the initial assessment tool from which care plans are formulated , based on the Roper , Logan and Tierney models . |
17 | With every breath I am allowing the healing energy to penetrate and permeate my lungs , heart , liver , kidneys and digestive organs . |
18 | " Now , I do n't expect an answer just now , but if I do n't know by dinner tonight , I am dismissing the entire staff without reference . |
19 | ‘ You must be the one to tell me I am doing the right thing . ’ |
20 | Earlier , at the start of the FACE photo shoot , the actor had confided , ‘ I 'm not sure I am doing the right thing . ’ |
21 | I do n't know if I am doing the right thing , but I want to make her feel safe . |
22 | And while you are collecting and structuring data about me , I am doing the same about you . |
23 | I am excluding the present proceedings from consideration here , since they are entirely untypical of what I do . ) |
24 | He was right : those promises are dishonest — I am quoting the Prime Minister , and he will hear this again — |
25 | If I set out to do something now , I will do it and I wo n't worry if I am making the right impression — if I fit in . |
26 | In that sense I suppose I am making the ultimate sacrifice . |
27 | By defining this insider fieldwork ( and the university experience which generated it ) as a liminal situation , I am extending the Turnerian concept ( 1969 , 1974 ) in which the individual moves temporarily into an unstructured and somewhat ambiguous state , during the initial process of passing through a rite de passage before returning to structure . |
28 | I am asking the hon. Gentleman whether he wants to go down that road . |
29 | The National Institute of Economic and Social Research has stated that , in the longer term — I am giving the hon. Member for Derby , North ( Mr. Knight ) his answer . |
30 | ‘ I am returning the delightful Quarto edition of Crowe 's poem , from which I have been able to observe what he did later with the piece . |