Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [verb] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Let me in for I am lost and alone and frightened . |
| 2 | The more I drink , the more I am persuaded that young wines offer most pleasure ; a constantly renewable resource , popping up fresh every year . |
| 3 | I look around at everyone else huffing and puffing in their glows of ecstasy , and realize that I am huffing and puffing with just as much relish . |
| 4 | I am informed that local authorities currently have to make their requests through the police . |
| 5 | John MacGregor , Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food I am advised that hard cheese processes suppress and kill off pathogens . |
| 6 | I am advised that local authorities seeking simply to provide the public with access to a comprehensive range of artistic and literary materials will not be put at risk by this provision . |
| 7 | I am told that Honest John has taken to phoning up editors of the papers that helped him regain power to plead with them not to be so beastly . |
| 8 | I am told that other people have had similar experiences but are not prepared to enlarge on their stories ; perhaps they had seen a ghost of a long-gone railwayman who had worked in the area years ago and had come back to his earthly place of employment ! |
| 9 | I AM saddened and appalled by an incident which happened two months ago when a female security guard chasing a thief knocked my 67-year-old mother off her feet . |
| 10 | ‘ I think I 'm demanding and chauvinistic , but I 've finally got someone with a good enough sense of humour to be able to cope with that very well , ’ he said . |
| 11 | I 'm struggling and howling but I ca n't get free . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm seeing that white bothy down there , ’ the driver informed me , pointing out a delightful cabin with a golden thatched roof . |
| 13 | I 'm told that professional painters now have shade cards that provide a selection of 3,000 colours . |
| 14 | He added : ‘ John Devereux and Richard Eyres have been allowed to play in Australia this summer and I 'm suffering because other Widnes forwards are injured . ’ |
| 15 | If I were experienced and sophisticated like Marise , he might get involved with me anyway , because he 'd know that I understood the game and would n't get hurt . |
| 16 | Immediately I felt worried lest I be seen as different from the others . |
| 17 | ‘ At the worst , even when I was bound and blind and mad , I swear it never touched you or anything that was yours . |
| 18 | I was withdrawn and sullen when he bade me farewell . |
| 19 | At five o'clock I was dressed and ready . |
| 20 | Many years later I was sent as emissary to Mary , Queen of Scots , when she was playing the two-backed beast with Bothwell . |
| 21 | I was exhausted and unhappy and really messed up . |
| 22 | I was exhausted and unable to walk far . |
| 23 | " Okay it 's the cops , " said the lady finally , and strode back towards the house I was thrashing and clawing but with Agnes still slumped on my middle and the whisky bottle and everything I could n't seem to writhe my way upright . |
| 24 | For some reason known only to the Fellows I was nominated as senior of the four scholars of my year . |
| 25 | I did not receive a thank you from the owner of these cards nor from the Midland Bank , yet I was told that common practice in Britain is to reward the finder . |
| 26 | On a recent visit to a day centre , which served both younger disabled and old people , I was told that old people were envious and resentful when computer learning was introduced for the younger disabled people . |
| 27 | I was informed that British Steel would be making a decision on the day that it made the decision — I was informed in confidence some days before that it would be making a decision on that day . |
| 28 | I was arguing that gay people have nothing to be ashamed of and yet my troops remained invisible as though they needed convincing too . |
| 29 | By the end of a day I was shattered and exhilarated . |
| 30 | I was smiling and smiling . |