Example sentences of "i [am/are] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mark Calcavecchia and I are a good team ; we can relax with each other — that 's the key . " |
| 2 | PAMELA : Why , Mrs. Jewkes , there can be only one reason , which is that I am a sad fool ! |
| 3 | I mean I am a mere officer who advises the Council , Bill , as you know . |
| 4 | ‘ You must not imagine that I am a pure woman . |
| 5 | I am a former management employee of Dorman Long 's Bridge and Constructional Works , Middlesbrough , who actually built this bridge and recall talking in the 1930s to men who had worked on it . |
| 6 | SIR — I am a former pupil of Summerhill School at Leiston , Suffolk ( television review , March 31 ) . |
| 7 | If we fail to take this opportunity Mr Mayor , as I as I feel we are about to do I am a hundred percent convinced that in years to come people will look back at this year , or however long it happens to be and say they missed out on a golden opportunity to make social , to make more houses and to make social housing better in this city and across the country . |
| 8 | I am a logical man , Mr. Gerrard , accustomed to presenting material in a concise , ordered and intelligible manner . |
| 9 | I am a working mother but the children rarely see me working . |
| 10 | ‘ I am a strange mixture of appearing to be a pleasant guy but behind it all I am pretty hard and often grumpy . |
| 11 | ‘ I am a poor widow . |
| 12 | I am a poor widow . |
| 13 | I am a poor widow . |
| 14 | I am a poor widow , |
| 15 | ‘ I am a poor orphan boy . |
| 16 | I am a poor Indian . |
| 17 | I am a poor scholar . |
| 18 | Dr Jaffery frowned : ‘ I am a simple man . |
| 19 | ‘ We shall walk barefoot and dusty and alone and suffer many things , and within our sufferings we shall find the pearl of great price , the untarnished joy , the secret treasure , and we shall find it because he is a pure saint and the bravest man in the world and I am a simple singer robed in humility , one risen from the dead ’ |
| 20 | He says : ‘ I am a simple guy . |
| 21 | I am a firm believer in extending higher education and in preserving the humanities , by all possible means , against technologico-Benthamite attacks . |
| 22 | ‘ It is a relatively new technique and a lot of people have been sceptical about it but I am a firm believer in the method , ’ he said . |
| 23 | I am a firm lover of simple meat dishes — my all-time favourite is garlic lamb . |
| 24 | I am a veritable doubting Thomas about the industry 's claim that if Sizewell B goes ahead , there will be significant benefits in the long term from an increase in the British share of the world market for PWR related products and services . |
| 25 | It is a good thing that I am a reasonable man . |
| 26 | Ibrox , I am a liberal man . |
| 27 | Mind you , travel was very much an academic thing for me until the television programme and even now I can scarcely say I am a travelled person . |
| 28 | I 've known for years that I 'm as good a guest at a dinner party as I am a lousy host . |
| 29 | As I am a complete traditionalist I agreed to whatever form of costume was required . |
| 30 | As you will realise I am a complete novice regarding these problems and would appreciate a little advice to sort them out . |