Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [verb] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My wife and I are planning an extended trip to North Africa in our 1986 Range Rover Turbo D which has 50,000 miles on the clock . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I am re-opening an old fireplace and need to install a fireback . |
| 4 | I am reading an extraordinary book about a man who was ‘ given away ’ by his mother at 2 weeks old , and managed to find her again in his thirties . |
| 5 | As I can not afford a new diesel engine I am considering an old slogger Perkins 4,236 . |
| 6 | I am addressing an all-party committee , ’ Mark replied , feeling rather important as he uttered the words . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm off to the US next week and then I am doing an extended tour of the US and Canada . |
| 8 | ‘ This is an eggciting party ’ , ‘ I am feeling eggstatic ’ , ‘ I am having an eggcilerating time ’ , ‘ Do not eggagerate ’ . |
| 9 | This is particularly unfortunate because in deciding to set aside the demand the judge exercised a discretion , and on this appeal I am discharging an appellate jurisdiction and not hearing the matter afresh and exercising my own discretion : see In re Gilmartin ( A Bankrupt ) [ 1989 ] 1 W.L.R. 513 . |
| 10 | I 'm getting an automatic next time I go in there . |
| 11 | Do n't think that because I 'm learning an absorbing and rather difficult trade I have no thoughts to spare for you . |
| 12 | ( 16 ) I 'm buying an awful lot of books here . |
| 13 | I 'm having an awful problem to herself . |
| 14 | So I 'm having an open house and I 've invited a load of friends round . |
| 15 | I 'm doing an elective attachment at the District Hospital . |
| 16 | I 'm doing an open learning course in Communication 4 at the moment , which may help . |
| 17 | He explained the set-up ; Duncan and I were to pull an Aspel-laden rickshaw through the busy streets of Charing Cross — ignoring the irate rush-hour traffic , which was being held up by an army of floor assistants — to the steps of Charing Cross underground station . |
| 18 | ‘ Before the Firebird I was using an old Gibson ES-175 up until about 1971 , ’ details Sonny . |
| 19 | Had it been the other way round , and I was experiencing an Anglican church for the first time , the shock might have been even greater . |
| 20 | For these services , and following a series of travel talks which I wrote and broadcast in the autumn of 1929 , I was made an Honorary Member of the M.J.A.R.A. , and appointed to the executive committee . |
| 21 | About a year ago I was sent an organic semi-soft cheese made in Wales . |
| 22 | The only excuse I have is that I was very young , a marvellous justification for most reprobate behaviour , and that I was wearing an uncomfortable vest . |
| 23 | To cut a long story short , I was given an additional three days behind the door , with a £1 fine for being in receipt of an illegal letter , even though it was put into my hand . |
| 24 | I mean , when I , when I was a kid I got , erm , I was given an Australian doll baby , and which was funny cos it had an amazing sun tan and dark blue eyes and blonde hair , like typical Ozzie child . |
| 25 | Finally , I was given an experimental drug and I managed to pull through . ’ |
| 26 | That was n't a question and I was getting an awful bad feeling about this . |
| 27 | Oh I always thought it was my ulcer that was causing it , you know , so I was , every time I took it I was taking an extra Samtack |
| 28 | ‘ I was considered an unusual child , ’ she said slowly . |
| 29 | I was becoming an old hand by now ; I was n't nearly as nervous as I had been the other times , even though the audience was twice the size . |
| 30 | As my turn approached and the queue thinned , I was afforded an occasional glimpse of the Smiths as they moved to collect purchases from the shelves behind them . |