Example sentences of "i [be] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I am looking like Sikh gentleman . ’ |
| 32 | It is my one great regret about this whole sorry business that at this crucial time in the Government 's fortunes , when I should so much have liked to be seen as a tower of strength , I am perceived by some as a point of weakness . |
| 33 | My own ferreting campaigns begin in October but from that time onward to the end of the game-shooting season I am limited to outside hedgerows and warrens and burrows well away from the standing crops of game cover and the woods . |
| 34 | In a more general sense I am fascinated by some of the things you 've just mentioned in your introduction , the question of continuity in German history , how we , how this marvellous nation , the nation of Beethoven and Wagner and Marx and Freud , actually finishes up going to war twice against its European neighbours , and in the Second World War in particular committing these awful atrocities . |
| 35 | I am to go in that old brown coat and skirt I brought from Bewick — ’ |
| 36 | The things that endure and that matter , I am convinced , are the human relationships and I think as I represent the , the group here today I , I am joined by six other people with associations with the group . |
| 37 | However , I am assured by those who know that public persons — premiers in particular — do not become reconciled to criticism , and despite affecting not to be , they remain immensely conscious of what is being said and are troubled if what is said is not to their liking . |
| 38 | I am fortified in this view by consideration of what could result if the local authority were right . |
| 39 | I am visited by dense and dreamless sleep before the horrific wakefulness ; hours in which I do nothing but watch . |
| 40 | … I am moved by those cadences I find in Ivy . |
| 41 | Indeed my wife believes that if when I die I am cut in half , the letters ICI will be found stamped through me from top to bottom , like Blackpool rock . |
| 42 | ‘ I am referring to that foolish note you wrote me , ’ Theda said , winding her hair into a plait as she spoke , her voice deliberately cool over the tremors inside her . |
| 43 | " I am referring to this . " |
| 44 | I start up the hill towards Dýrafjöđ3ur but before I reach the top I am treated to some Icelandic weather . |
| 45 | If I am writing on this side of the paper I can not at the same moment be writing on the other side . |
| 46 | I am writing with open eyes |
| 47 | I am writing to all Spokes members who offered , on their membership form , to help with cycleroute construction . |
| 48 | Another is why I am writing in this composition book . |
| 49 | I am troubled about certain parts [ he had said ] , and I do n't think anything can be — there could be a redaction , but I think what was left after the redaction would be virtually useless . |
| 50 | Although I am questioned on this in moments of crisis , I firmly believe it to be true . |
| 51 | Erm I am trying to local plan , places much emphasis on the use of recycled materials to reduce the rate of gravel extraction in the county and the associated environmental damage . |
| 52 | I should like to make it clear from the outset that I am participating in this conference not as an expert on any aspect of the teaching of languages , but rather as someone whose primary concern is with the structure of language and , more generally , the nature of cognitive processes . |
| 53 | Nadia : I am from the General Union of Palestinian Women and it 's good that I am participating in this meeting at this time because I am having major problems with the British Feminist Movement and the Western feminist line . |
| 54 | I am speaking of 1933 and 1934 . |
| 55 | If I am to live by that , he wrote , then this represents all I am capable of . |
| 56 | I am met by another answerphone with the friend 's voice on it . |
| 57 | ‘ Take me in by your fire for I am shivering with cold and I am lost in the forest … oh be merciful and let me share your fire and give me a cup of milk to sup and a mouthful of bread … ’ |
| 58 | I am born of noble stock and I am not too proud to admit it . |
| 59 | I am plagued by awkward thoughts , like splinters in my brain : the seventh grade and pocket radios , games of spin the bottle from which I am cheerfully excluded , tight jeans , Bonnie Bell lip gloss , me , boyish and baffled , the menacing breath of puberty . |
| 60 | ‘ Say , ’ he said , ‘ you 'd better tell me more precisely about what I am to wear to this ball . |