Example sentences of "i be [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I been having a little think , ’ said Ron Paget . |
2 | My wife and I are planning an extended trip to North Africa in our 1986 Range Rover Turbo D which has 50,000 miles on the clock . |
3 | I know that I am providing an unusual excuse for those dastards interested in luring some member of the opposite sex into a dark and confined space , but I would be glad to hear about experimental results . |
4 | He was pleased with his performance and said : ‘ I am playing well but I am lacking a little bit of killer instinct . ’ |
5 | ‘ I find I am learning a great deal . ’ |
6 | Jackie is wearing a red tee-shirt and I am wearing a blue one . |
7 | ‘ If I am wearing a pure white carnation I am best avoided on that day because it means I am in a bad mood , ’ he said , adding that he always warns new acquaintances of this fact but has as yet not lived up to the threat . |
8 | I am wearing a shiny souwester ; |
9 | I am re-opening an old fireplace and need to install a fireback . |
10 | The cook 's latest masterpiece languishes in my stomach , and I am drinking a river-cooled beer . |
11 | I am building a new pond in an L shape . |
12 | In fact I am developing a revealing , but ultimately frustrating line of correspondence with the Welsh Office and I would be grateful if you could take a look at the enclosed letter copies . |
13 | And it is still if , not when though in this article I am assuming a working Tory majority in the Commons rather than a hung Parliament , which would change everything . |
14 | I am reading an extraordinary book about a man who was ‘ given away ’ by his mother at 2 weeks old , and managed to find her again in his thirties . |
15 | Corden said : ‘ I do n't want people to think I am deserting a sinking ship . |
16 | ‘ You know my nightmare — that I am seeing a dead boy ( whom I never recognize ) on the ground at my feet . |
17 | But by the summer I am writing a homosexual love-story which I preface with the following remark : |
18 | I am attaching a complete list of the personnel in the film unit . |
19 | As I can not afford a new diesel engine I am considering an old slogger Perkins 4,236 . |
20 | Actually , I am trying a new strategy . |
21 | We were talking about your career , in which I am taking a fatherly interest . |
22 | I have stressed that I am taking a particular linguistic phenomenon , deixis , and examining its occurrences and behaviour in a specific genre . |
23 | These parties of mine have become something of an institution , and I am expecting a large number of people to come in and give their comments on the results in various constituencies . |
24 | Putting it more generally , I am suggesting a major difference in ‘ compromisability ’ between different kinds of goals . |
25 | It is a matter for the individual conscience of every hon. Member , which is precisely why I am allowing a free vote by my Ministers on the Bill . |
26 | I can hardly believe I am addressing a married lady ! |
27 | I am addressing an all-party committee , ’ Mark replied , feeling rather important as he uttered the words . |
28 | Moods also do that to me , and I am fighting a dark one . |
29 | But also I am suffering a pleasurable and painful feeling , a feeling so often made banal by film , of time reprieved and relived . |
30 | At the moment I am examining a large number of detailed proposals that have been put to me . |