Example sentences of "and [pron] [be] [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 My approach and preparation are slower and I am also a different person mentally .
2 ‘ He knows of your feelings towards me , and I am only a passing stranger .
3 Years ago , though , I put down my gun and I am now a conservationist .
4 She died in 1952 and I am now the only one of the family left alive .
5 Chairman I have to but I moved conservative resolution and I am now the debate problem .
6 My Mum and I are now the very best of friends , not really like mother and son .
7 Dally goes as far as to state that it indicates a bad prognosis for the disease , but I am glad to be able to report that although my jealousy continued into my adolescence , including the anorexic period , it did not deter my recovery , and that my sisters and I are now the best of friends .
8 I 've thought about it but we are so different , with you being a thief and I 'm just an ordinary woman . ’
9 I hear , I , I , I think there is a tendency with the County Council but as I discovered as Chairman of Highways that members want to take a greater interest and to have a greater say on the items on the agenda now planning is is not a controversial as , as say highway items , but nevertheless I think there will be times and there will be agendas which will require a great deal of discussion on the individual items and I 'm also a great believer bearing in mind comments if it ai n't broke , do n't bend it .
10 Right can I just ask a wee quick question which is highly personal liability for eight thousand pounds of tax and I 'm also a guarantor for my son 's mortgage
11 I do it , and I 'm only a girl .
12 You 've just got me , and I 'm only a third-year student nurse . ’
13 But there was a foreman in the shop , but these did their own job er and er in the about three or four weeks , and I 'm only a kid , erm they had me doing separate jobs you know , not for a gaffer or anything and er they used to , they give me odd jobs as , you know like , to help the men and er it went of like that in till I was eighteen or nineteen , well twenty , that time you were , day , become a man .
14 My head still hurts real bad , and I 'm still a bit confused , but I pretend I understand .
15 Leeds are still reeling from last week 's four-goal home mauling by Nottingham Forest and club captain Gordon Strachan said : ‘ I 've watched it on video and I 'm still a bit confused about what happened .
16 But I 'm still the champion , and I 'm still a better fighter than he is .
17 Now I 'm seventy-seven and I 'm hardly a day older . ’
18 I may venture to add Jerry and I were probably the first Scottish kids to hear this coming over the air .
19 she and I were always the last two
20 ‘ Off the field he was an established star and I was just a youngster .
21 I had noticed it too , and I was all the more pleased with the prospect of doing something in what was coming to be my other sphere of interest , namely , literature and especially poetry .
22 It was an intriguing prospect and I was all the more curious why I had found one of his handbills in my chamber at the Golden Turk .
23 By the spring of 1964 I had persuaded myself that as it was nearly nine years since I joined AIB as a Senior Inspector and I was still a Senior Inspector , I would probably draw my pension as status of the engineering investigators to that of the operational investigators .
24 ‘ I made an awful lot of money and I was still a reporter with The Northern ‘ I remember I would turn up to journalists ’ union meetings wearing a Walls ice cream coat . ’
25 And I was only a wee mite . ’
26 This was Eilean na Roin , and I was only a passer-by .
27 They took no notice of me ; they were creatures of the night , the air and the ocean , and I was only a piece of the land , meaningless , to be flown round like a boulder or a stump of wood .
28 He was a strong man , and I was only a woman .
29 Has that come up in your er in your well we were coming back there one night from my aunt 's and er there were quite a lot of policemen about and I was only a little boy , it was before the First World War and my father said to one of these policemen , what 's happening so , oh we had a tip-off he says that er there 's these Whirly Gang folks and in the morning we saw somebody 'd been maimed or killed , but er that was another bit of interesting news around , and I remember down in Caldmore one day there used to be some ladies who used to come from , well they used to be , one of them used to call them the salt ladies , they used to come with blocks of salt on a , on a I think they used to come from and I saw a horse there as a kid and I , it had got a long gash right across its body and I said to this lady I said , what 's happened to this , she said oh the Whirly Gang and er I was in Paris in nineteen twenty two and er we got to this hotel and there was another Englishman on this trip and he said to me he said where do you come from ?
30 I had this plane a a low four nine engine and I was only a kid .
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