Example sentences of "[pers pn] [am/are] [vb pp] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Incensed by such treatment , the hare scratched the Moon 's face with his claws and the two of them are disfigured to this day . |
| 2 | Some of them are explained in more detail on the following pages along with accounts of Tesco 's efforts to tackle a range of problems from toxic chemicals to energy conservation . |
| 3 | These simple propositions are truisms , but their importance and the dangers of departing from them are highlighted by this appeal , which we allowed on 13 March 1992 . |
| 4 | At the east end , the springmakers work , and the machines required by them are installed in this part , together with an electric welding machine and various bolt and nut machines ; boiler-makers work on the south and west sides , and the forging presses are also laid down here while the north side is mainly occupied by drop hammers . |
| 5 | Bingley possesses an enormous fortune and both of them are committed to each other and love one another very deeply . |
| 6 | ‘ You think Miller and I are linked in some way ? |
| 7 | I am fortified in this view by consideration of what could result if the local authority were right . |
| 8 | … I am moved by those cadences I find in Ivy . |
| 9 | I am met by another answerphone with the friend 's voice on it . |
| 10 | I am influenced by many painters , usually those with a social or religious message such as Breughel , Velasquez , Goya , Delacroix , Gauguin or El Greco . |
| 11 | ‘ If I am a caveman , perhaps I am influenced by these islands ’ proliferation of caves ? ’ he suggested , grinning . |
| 12 | Nowadays , I am consulted on all matters pertaining to him , and I feel my role is to make him better known . |
| 13 | ‘ I am doomed for all eternity . ’ |
| 14 | Looking back at your career to , say , the last years of the Great War I am reminded of that poem quoted at the end of Pasternak 's Dr Zhivago , ‘ To live one 's life is not as easy as crossing a ploughed field' ! |
| 15 | I am reminded of another Irishman — or rather an Englishman born in Ireland — renowned for his healing hands : Valentine Great-rakes , known as ‘ the stroker ’ . |
| 16 | we know the truth ‘ I am acquainted with this sense-datum ’ . |
| 17 | Despite the somewhat glowing tone of the editorial commentary , I am left with some doubts about the efficacy of such therapy in Broadmoor , where at least some of the patients experience the regime as distinctly untherapeutic and repressive . |
| 18 | I am committed to this enterprise : To climb the mountain , to cut down the cedar , and leave behind me an enduring name . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ And I am put in this ward under observation because I am suspected of having heart murmurs and also I am having surgery on my face . |
| 20 | It also indicates the very real difficulties I 'm faced with this year , because unless I get the go-ahead to cancel before the end of May , we 're stuck again with having to pay whatever the publishers demand this year . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm faced with this business of the Danish marriages , ’ the boy said without enthusiasm . |
| 22 | Half-way through dinner , the woman laid her knife and fork together and said : ‘ I 'm wrecked after that drive . |
| 23 | I think I 'm twiddled after that gin and Martini . |
| 24 | It 's like a speck of dust drifts down and goes into my eye and I look up to see where it came from and I 'm hit by this tonne of bricks ; it hits me that hard . |
| 25 | … you at the back , madam ? … can I take it , then , that I 'm heard in all parts of the house ? " |
| 26 | I do n't seem to have any energy , any will , I 'm constipated in all ways . |
| 27 | ‘ But I do feel I 'm viewed with more respect these days . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm moved by this tribute , Hugo , ’ Matthew said , laughing . |
| 29 | I 'm tied to another organisation for guest speaking anyway , so IMG get nothing of that ’ . |
| 30 | I am locked in a time warp , but I 'm lost in several time warps . |