Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [verb] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a lot of them been closed since then . |
| 2 | ‘ Nowhere have I been presented with so many extraordinary opportunities for startlingly fresh and original material for radio , ’ he says of Greenland , where he borrows a cassette and goes out recording ‘ wild track ’ ( a technical term that he expects us to know , meaning the sound background you hear when the broadcaster mercifully shuts up . ) |
| 3 | Had I been sent for much earlier I would have tried to turn the baby — but now … it 's too late . |
| 4 | ‘ The two precise problems I am looking at today are what financial means should be explored , and what partnership , with other European operators or if necessary an industrial company ? ’ |
| 5 | Yes , the softness I am looking at somehow irks me . |
| 6 | But the disobedience I am referring to here is of a very particular kind . |
| 7 | The three small inner-city communities that we studied in this way would have been assumed by traditional scholars to be homogeneous in language , and the fine-grained but systematic variation I am referring to here would not have been thought possible . |
| 8 | The letter I am referring to now at the moment is a particular token instance of letter as a lexical item , a general conceptual type , a codified abstraction . |
| 9 | I am dealing with rather more interesting matters . |
| 10 | I find myself turning to the first chapter of the Book of Genesis for an insight into what I am hinting at here . |
| 11 | The disgust which inheres in desire is not , as the Freudian analysis might suggest , necessarily generated by or focused upon the repressed constituent of the self ; it may be , but what I am pointing to here is an additional structural interdependence of desire and disgust . |
| 12 | If I am unfortunate enough to experience the untimely death of several people I am attached to so that it forms something of a pattern , then I am likely to experience considerable difficulty with my bereavements : there has been none of the unconscious preparation for the death of someone close that goes on in our awareness of incidents that are likely to occur . |
| 13 | I 'm really a workaholic and it is what I am used to now . ’ |
| 14 | She explains : ‘ There is n't really much time to rest or socialise , I 'm really a workaholic and it is what I am used to now . |
| 15 | Also , her relationship with the accused man had been — I am wondering to just what extent — quite intimate . |
| 16 | Barbel fishing in the early days , and I am talking to more than a hundred years ago , was very popular amongst the gentry , who used to employ a man to bait a swim with thousands of lobworms over a period of days , sometimes weeks . |
| 17 | The differences in contents in different individuals come about in the following manner , and here I must stress that I am talking about sexually reproducing species such as our own . |
| 18 | With such a wide definition , it might be more useful to consider what this leaves out , rather than what it includes — which gets us back to the categories I am working with here : it excludes inheritance and invention . |
| 19 | To put what I am saying in more concrete terms : the dialect poetry of the Lancashire miner , say , is taken as a product of his particular cultural experience , which is different from the experience of public schoolboys or Rastafarians . |
| 20 | ‘ With the almost too beautiful images of America captured by Robby Muller and a perfect fusion of image and sound achieved by Ry Cooder and stunning performances from all the cast , I am left with hopelessly inadequate superlatives . |
| 21 | I am sickened to now learn that the Government has acquiesced to the other EC leaders on this issue at the Edinburgh Summit and that , for the sake of subsidiarity , this directive has been dropped . |
| 22 | I am known as Sideways Reynolds and I might have to cut back on the speed on the corners . |
| 23 | You are the most ill-mannered , arrogant man it has ever been my misfortune to meet and if you think that I am going to obediently trot over there and start picking up that rubbish now … ’ |
| 24 | You see , this really , this this parable i is the story of of , of something which is lost almost by default , it just wanders off , it just goes it 's own way it did n't set out to be lost , it did n't choose you know that i , it did n't go through earlier on in that day , in the little brain that the sheep has , there was n't the thought going , I am going to deliberately get lost today ! |
| 25 | The camel drops ; the guy takes off the sheet and I 'm blinded for about two minutes . |
| 26 | JOHN Aldridge greeted the arrival of Pat Nevin at Tranmere by saying : ‘ I 'm hoping for even more goals now . ’ |
| 27 | I 'm hoping for both amusing and sad items . |
| 28 | I 'm hoping to anyway . |
| 29 | Just leave it at the moment I 'm trying to here if you ca n't |
| 30 | I 'm thinking about too much I just ca n't I 'm getting totally confused now . |