Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] i [am/are] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My heart , or what passes for one in demonic physiology , is in my mouth , for fear that I am about to be exiled from Rainbow Rosenbloom , and from Chinese food , movies and other earthly delights , for evermore . |
| 2 | er I 'm slightly worried about the effect on the Olympic movement of Atlanta being chosen only in the sense that er that this is the , I think the sixth time in 25 years that a North American city has got it and it does look rather as if the er pressures are now , on the financial side , are now coming very much from the North American continent and I 'm not at all sure that that 's really good for the Olympic movement . |
| 3 | ‘ I normally drive a Volvo 343 ; it 's not a very new one , but my main criterion is to make sure I do n't end up as the jam in the sandwich when I 'm out on the motorway . ’ |
| 4 | I go to work and I 'm only on housework half a day . |
| 5 | Jane and I are off to Italy — a photographic assignment — otherwise we would have held onto them a while longer . |
| 6 | A massive dose of sun cream and a sun visor and I 'm back to my usual prattling self . |
| 7 | " Now Miss Graham , as you know , I think , I am not a fool and I am always on the side of my staff — if it is possible to be so without alienating a client . |
| 8 | I did it with erm , with er , I went from one and a half and I 'm down to one , 'cos I was , I I 've tasted my father 's sometimes , 'cos he thinks two and a half , he used to take three , and I 'm like aw it 's |
| 9 | ‘ I believe in marriage but I 'm not in any hurry . |
| 10 | ‘ I certainly did n't want to take part in the play and I am not at all at ease with those — those people . |
| 11 | A local man offers to ferry me across the fjord and I am soon on the way to Holt . |
| 12 | I am white , I 'm middle class in terms of my background and to that extent have had a certain degree of privilege and I 'm also in some situations , easy enough to attack . |
| 13 | Although the near-monopoly enjoyed by solicitors was indefensible because it related only to the preparation of documents , ‘ there is a real need for consumer protection and I am far from sure that the White Paper proposals meet this need , ’ he said . |
| 14 | little bits , little bits and I 'll buy you your tobacco Neil nothing much but little bits of something now if he were working and could give me the full sixty that is thirty for his room and thirty for his food so that I did n't have to worry about th actually paying for him but he was paying me Paul is going to pay me fifty that 's thirty pounds in , I made a rule to Paul that he is going to eat thirty pounds worth of food and there are only twenty pounds in my profit and then the other rule , a man called Alan this window cleaner he wants the room that I 'm in at the moment |
| 15 | You said you 'd be in London for several weeks and I 'm here for a month . ’ |
| 16 | Then the gaffer thinks of a tactical plan for Elland Road and I 'm in from the start . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'll try and grab a haircut while I 'm up in civilization . ’ |
| 18 | ALL CHANGE BUT I 'M STILL IN THE MONEY |
| 19 | I want you every minute of every day that I 'm here with you . ’ |
| 20 | all this coursework that I , all this er lecture stuff that I 'm behind on , lots of it |
| 21 | In fact , ’ she glanced impatiently down at her wrist-watch , ‘ the US markets are open now , and every minute that I 'm away from my desk my clients are losing money . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ My wife and I are both from Yorkshire and I have spent my whole career up in the north . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I 've lost three pounds and I 'm back to my weight of all last season , 13 stone , although I will be even sharper if I come down another couple of pounds . |
| 24 | I am sorry to worry you over this but the result of the present system is that John Merer and I are barely on speaking terms . |
| 25 | Now , reflects Neneh , ‘ Naima and I are really like partners — she trusted me to give her strength and security , and I gained a life in my life — that 's been a complete life-saver a lot of the time . |
| 26 | And I 'm trying to get it through your arrogant skull that I 'm not in the market for a casual roll in the hay just because we happen to be sharing a villa for a few days ! ’ |
| 27 | well I thought well if it checks me another six months at least when they say have you got any experience , but as I say I 'm still in touch with Mencap and I 'm still in touch with mine and I 've also er put in for , what they call them mobility insistence for the Princess Marina which again an education and you just go in and be , be a friend to somebody and you take them out for an hour , er a couple of hours , you , and you 're paid five pounds eighty for a two hour session |
| 28 | the difficulty quite frankly is that everybody wants to join the Study Groups on foreign affairs or economic policy and I am not at all sure that electorally these are the two most important . |
| 29 | I took courage , stopped , looked my questioner straight in the eye and said , ‘ I come from Fontanellato by tram and I am here for the same reason as you are . |
| 30 | ‘ If Major Calder and I are about to be deprived of your services , ’ Carew answered evenly , ‘ then we 'll have to use another and faster method of disrupting the IRB organisation . ’ |