Example sentences of "i [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I am , ’ Piers agreed , ‘ although you can continue to think of me as a glorified carpenter if you like . ’ |
| 32 | I kept a set of clothes at my Mother 's house — she treated me as a contemporary , so allowed me to do as I wished — and on Friday afternoons , I 'd catch the bus from school to spend the week-end there . |
| 33 | When the suggestion of a flight along the whole coastline of South Devon and Cornwall , stopping perhaps for a cream tea at Land 's End , and back up along North Cornwall , Devon and Somerset was made , it struck me as a perfect combination of scenic beauty and very little flight planning . |
| 34 | The world still sees me as a nasty kid |
| 35 | But having a woman on the wing makes them realise they have hurt real people , they see me as a real person |
| 36 | That sense of ‘ bitter-sweet ’ ( the title , perhaps not incidentally , of one of Coward 's greatest stage successes ) strikes me as a crucial component of the structure of feeling I am interested in here . |
| 37 | ‘ Could you ever see me as a full-time mother ? ’ |
| 38 | It has come through to me as a firm conclusion that , if there is such a thing as premonition , it is something which is instantaneous — a flash of intuition … . |
| 39 | Make no mistake , he 's the group ringleader and possibly a control-freak , but he does n't strike me as a dictatorial megalomaniac . |
| 40 | ‘ To me as a Peruvian , ’ David said , his deep , brown eyes alive with the topic , ‘ nationalism means Manu , means biological diversity . |
| 41 | I remember removing the name-tapes of the former wearers ( who had left the school ) with a savage feeling that these people had to be got rid of , otherwise they would possess me as a living person is possessed by a ghost . |
| 42 | The agent never treated me as a serious buyer because I did n't fit his image of a businessman ’ ) , the adaptation process began . |
| 43 | It strikes me as a great idea , and it 's hard to see how they can lose when you consider that 2000AD magazine sells 300,000 copies a week . |
| 44 | ‘ A small part of the fault was mine for not noticing that Eleanor considered me as a great deal more than her employer . |
| 45 | Fiona hugged me as a long-lost brother and said Harry still could n't be quite clear in his mind as he was saying now that he remembered drowning . |
| 46 | Mummy instilled a beauty routine into me as a young girl which is as automatic to me now as brushing my teeth . |
| 47 | They inter-linked into a plasma of enormous strength , and to me as a young man they formed a Mafia that made the Sicilian one look like choirboys . |
| 48 | I first met him when he came to interview me as a young reporter . |
| 49 | I have already described the tremendous impression that Hydén 's experiments — in which he measured increases in RNA and protein synthesis in tiny cellular regions from the brains of rats trained to balance on wires to reach for food — made on me as a young post-doc . |
| 50 | Returning to the advice that Leo Amery gave me as a young man , I remember reading widely from the great autobiographies and biographies that he recommended , including the works of Lord Milner . |
| 51 | ‘ I 'm not as bitter as I was , but I heard a lot of evidence about these war crimes and it really shook me as a young lad . |
| 52 | A deaf therapist said : ‘ They do n't see me as a health professional who knows it all , but who does n't really understand ; they see me as a disabled person . ’ |
| 53 | SIR — Your agricultural correspondent 's report on the goats of Snowdonia and their origins ( April 2 ) is less exciting than the folklore related to me as a small boy by a Welsh shepherd . |
| 54 | Struck me as a dangerous thing for him to be doing . |
| 55 | She always struck me as a ginger nut sort of person . |
| 56 | On a personal note , in my very early days on the staff of Ipswich Art School , Squirrell was teaching and I have very fond memories of the kindness and helpfulness which this most likeable man extended to me as a new boy . |
| 57 | The people look to me as a new Messiah . |
| 58 | I do n't deserve that forgiveness , but the God who loves me who has actually died on the cross for me has actually taken all of that away and more than that has made me new , has actually raised me as a new life with him . |
| 59 | Every penny of that meagre capital represented a pleasure foregone , a temptation denied , yet now I found myself wasting it on meals I did n't want with people who regarded me as a poor relative . |
| 60 | Struck me as a dull lot by and large . |