Example sentences of "i [verb] [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There may well be standard poodle in the Irish Water Spaniel but the Newfoundland I mean is a big heavy dog . |
| 2 | So anyway er I mean being a keen motorcyclist I borrowed a Moto Guzzi last year , you know a big V twin , beautiful bike , I went up into Derbyshire and had a you know ride on it , and thought well that 's not bad , see I 've always had British bikes , and I think I might g I might get one of those , so I came back in the house put the helmet down and said hey that Guzzi 's not bad , I could get a decent one for about two thousand you know about nineteen eighty , you know nice Le Mans Two . |
| 3 | ‘ I liken being a creative music person to going to see a football game or rugby game . |
| 4 | I liken being a creative music person to going to see a football game or rugby game . |
| 5 | The first Star printer I owned was a 80-column thermal machine that was connected to an Osborne 01 CP/M machine . |
| 6 | That I stress is a preliminary view they could not and would not wish to make a final decision until they have all the information . |
| 7 | what I lacked was a foreign accent , almond eyes , straight or springy black hair , a black skin , a muscular physique , a mind full of difficult alphabets , a sense of rhythm , a pitiful history of slavery and oppression , and a massive member — though not necessarily in that order . |
| 8 | My object , which I trust was a fair one , was never suspected , my position never questioned . |
| 9 | All I recollect is a grey , sombre sky and the dark Seine rushing under the bridges ; tall , sharp-gabled houses which sprang up from the cobbles and leaned crazily together , storey thrust out above storey ; the narrow , winding streets of the Latin Quarter ; the pell-mell of ascending gables and tinted roof tiles , the gables of their lower storeys sculpted into fantastic shapes of warriors or exotic animals . |
| 10 | ‘ All I want is a normal life . |
| 11 | And , for the moment , all I want is a little peace and quiet although it 's not all that quiet , thanks to the gaps between the attic floorboards left by the cottage 's Victorian jerrybuilder : how Riva can snore on through all those goings-on I do not know . |
| 12 | ALL I want is a fantastic time with just as crazy a female . |
| 13 | ‘ What I want is a biodegradable board — like the husk of a grain of wheat . |
| 14 | All I want is a few answers , then you 're free to leave any time you like . ’ |
| 15 | All I want is a yearly figure . ’ |
| 16 | The problems start when they get out of the ‘ All I want is a basic word processor ’ frame of mind and start getting into some serious computing . |
| 17 | All I want is a little cottage . |
| 18 | But right now , all I want is a fair hearing . |
| 19 | ‘ What I want is a safe , happy and successful climb — very much in that order . |
| 20 | The material that I used was a lovely heavy cream bridal fabric , chosen because it was the closest equivalent I could find to the bride 's dress — surprisingly enough , she would n't let me chop a hole in the real thing ! |
| 21 | Returning on the bus from Medenine I noticed a solitary blonde whom I assumed was a stray package tourist from one of the hotels on the west of the island . |
| 22 | But I wish I 'd been a snobby old ratbag with some power on the Inverness-shire County Council planning committee in the 60s . |
| 23 | Well er it was only I 'd been a wee while at er Birsay and a wee while at Crantit till I were back at Holland but it was a different farm I was in then it was a bit different . |
| 24 | If I 'd been a religious and I would have thanked one god or another for the large number of kilocreds I was soon to collect , which would keep me from any kind of poverty for a long time . |
| 25 | I tumbled out of the nest , where I 'd been a cosseted only child , and into digs . |
| 26 | I think I got that because of my tracheotomy — I think I probably should have gotten it before , but I 'd been a bad girl . |
| 27 | I 've said all along if I 'd been a white man with my ability , I feel I 'd be a wealthy man . |
| 28 | I suppose if I 'd been a few years older , I would have replied , ‘ Is n't that the only way to treat it ? ’ |
| 29 | I 'd been a naughty boy , |
| 30 | It 's quite funny really because er I used to go off I had an agreement with the headmaster at that particular time and he 'd h I 'd been a full time teacher with him , and he needed somebody desperately , that was the only reason obviously he wanted me back , and er I said Well look I can come back but I ca n't get back in order to go to the assembly at first . |