Example sentences of "[pers pn] am [adv] an " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I am also an accredited envoy of the English Chancellor . ’ |
| 2 | I know I am just an ignorant servant girl , aged seventeen , but I do know some Latin . |
| 3 | I am just an old softie at heart . |
| 4 | I would like to think I am just an ordinary person . |
| 5 | I am just an ordinary Daleswoman and if I began to think or act otherwise I know a few people around here who would soon bring me to my senses . |
| 6 | My own aspirations are more lowly — I am just an ordinary member . |
| 7 | I may well have had holistic tendencies for I am both an artist and a writer , but all that was subconscious . |
| 8 | But I took the point , for I am neither an institution nor an area of outstanding natural beauty . |
| 9 | I am not an unfeeling woman . |
| 10 | I am not an agriculturalist . |
| 11 | In fact I am not an expert on any aspect of the subject on which I am to speak . |
| 12 | But I am not an expert , sergeant . |
| 13 | ‘ I am not an artist . |
| 14 | I am not an idle man , I have never worked harder than I do here . ’ |
| 15 | I am not an uncritical admirer of the Labèque sisters : their performances can be uneven , and I have sometimes found them guilty of grabbing a composition by the collar and belting off with it before it can gets its breath . |
| 16 | I am not an eccentric exception , and the fact that the coal lorry delivers weekly in our village is an indication of demand . |
| 17 | ‘ Alas , I am not an expert in these machines , ’ he said , ‘ but my nightwatchman here reports … ’ |
| 18 | To some extent I can evade the issue by letting spontaneous inclination take its course , without allowing thought to intervene , so that my action is not chosen but caused ; but I am not an instinctive being like an animal , I have to choose , and on the position we are considering all imperatives are ungrounded , except such as may be derivable from ‘ Face facts ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ I am not an alcoholic but I was very drunk , ’ he said . |
| 20 | I am not an instinctive film-maker . |
| 21 | I rely on you for my information on domestic American politics , on which , admittedly , I am not an expert . |
| 22 | I am not an expert , so I leave the decisions regarding the buying of paintings to my specialist colleagues . |
| 23 | The compromises work well and whilst I am not an experienced glider pilot Derek Piggott believes that the type would make an excellent motor glider trainer . |
| 24 | And of course I am not an unworldly man — the Earl , my brother , whom I 'm sure you will meet , will assure you that I am , by his standards , too interested in confirming and enlarging the wealth of the estates — and indeed on my visits to Egypt and Turkey and the New World I have , I may say , made a purchase here , an investment there … ’ |
| 25 | ‘ No , ’ he concluded , pulling himself reluctantly out of his Croesian day-dream , ‘ I am not an unworldly man . |
| 26 | ‘ Lina , I am not an Ixmarite . |
| 27 | You see , I am not an accountant . |
| 28 | The difficulty is I am not an employee of yours , so I hope they accept it . |
| 29 | I am not an optimist by nature , but since coming to this country I have blessed by good fortune . |
| 30 | I am not an expert , but does that question have something to do with the menopause ? |