Example sentences of "i [am/are] [verb] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am locked in a time warp , but I 'm lost in several time warps . |
| 2 | I am proceeding in the belief that there is a unity in developmental mechanisms , and whilst the sea-urchin provided an excellent model , there are other examples to be considered . |
| 3 | But I am holding in a dead zone . |
| 4 | But when I am kicked in the groin in my father 's house , when I am taunted and called ‘ nigger ’ and ‘ black bastard ’ , when I am arrested as a result of police harassment , at those times I am ashamed to be British . |
| 5 | Suddenly Europe tells me I am living in a new country called Bosnia-Hercegovina . |
| 6 | Initially he is overwhelmed : ‘ I continue to have this curious sense of fiction , the feeling that I am living in a Maurice Edelman novel . |
| 7 | However , my corresponding Ego fantasy is of losing my wits to such an extent that I am unable to work ; I am living in a filthy bedsit and the floor is strewn with pieces of paper that I am unable to make sense of , final demands which have not been paid , dirty clothes , plants which have fallen over , unwashed plates and mugs — and I am curled up in a foetal ball , wishing the world would go away ! |
| 8 | Notwithstanding the views that have found favour with others I consider this to be a reasonable construction of the statutory provisions and I am comforted in the fact that , apart from an attempt to tax airline employees , which was taken to the special commissioners who decided in favour of the taxpayer , this has been the practice of the Inland Revenue in applying the relevant words where they have occurred in the Income Tax Acts for so long as they have been in force , until they initiated the present cases . |
| 9 | ‘ I am Betty 's pusher but because I have had a hip replacement I am limited in the amount I can walk , ’ said Mr Richardson . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 … ’ |
| 11 | At the moment I am residing in a hostel where I have to share all the basic amenities and do my share of cleaning up . |
| 12 | If I am introduced as ’ Gill 's husband ’ , I am treated in a certain way ; if I am introduced as a Member of Parliament , I am generally treated in a very different way . |
| 13 | I am writing in the light of a meeting with ScotRail on 3 November , which was attended by Stuart Smith from the LDU , and a subsequent telephone conversation between Brian Sharkie and yourself . |
| 14 | ’ I am writing in the hope that you may be able to give me some positive information regarding the money I am supposed to live on . |
| 15 | I am writing in the reply to the ongoing correspondence and discussions between yourselves and various departments within the Council regarding your application for funding for repairs to the building in Garden Terrace Road . |
| 16 | In any case , whatever machines are at my disposal , the simple movable table on which I am leaning in the photograph will still be where the first hand-written draft is composed . |
| 17 | I am acting in a purely professional manner . ’ ? |
| 18 | ‘ I am acting in a purely professional manner . |
| 19 | I am acting in a purely professional manner ’ |
| 20 | I am acting in a purely professional manner . |
| 21 | Certainly there is a crucial sense in which Genet presupposes what he would challenge : ‘ I am steeped in an idea of property while I loot property . |
| 22 | I am dabbling in a costume jewellery project to help local youth groups earn money and I 'm helping a couple of ‘ city girls ’ start a coffee shop for ‘ world travellers ’ , which Nongkhai seems to have in ever increasing numbers . |
| 23 | It is 1972 and I am travelling in a minibus through the Bekaa Valley , The Times correspondent in Ireland on holiday in Lebanon , unwittingly choosing to spend my vacation in the country in which I shall much later spend more than 13 years of my life . |
| 24 | I get to the border , and I am questioned for hours , endless interrogation , and if I am travelling in a car , they open it up and they search it . |
| 25 | ‘ When I see myself , ’ Ted said , ‘ I am Lying in a hammock , just swinging , just swinging . ’ |
| 26 | I am lying in the grass dazed by the sun and the busy ants , by the myriad humming galore of a river on a summer afternoon . |
| 27 | If a car suddenly swerves round the corner while I am standing in the middle of the road , the right thing for me to do is to jump for the pavement as spontaneously as a cat . |
| 28 | I try not to think about it ; I just block it all out and concentrate on what I am doing in the ring . |
| 29 | I attend the Assembly as a Member of this House and I should like the opportunity to report back to the House , during a proper debate , on what I am doing in the Council of Europe . |
| 30 | I am sitting in an armchair in her tiny front room . |