Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] i [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he was a very busy man , I was grateful that Eliot should have been prepared to see me without any notice at all . |
| 2 | Would you be able to hear me through that ? |
| 3 | And another sister said she would be happy to join me in that . |
| 4 | It would be very comfortable , but they 'd be surprised to see me like that at the Queen Elizabeth Hall . ’ |
| 5 | It is grotesque to portray me as some sort of blue-eyed optimist . |
| 6 | Erm , on the grounds that the substance he was dealing with was complicated , and I think , erm , colleague is right to reprove me for some of the language . |
| 7 | ‘ Is that what 's supposed to keep me in this dress ? |
| 8 | As it was your generous gift of the physic Garden to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries that encouraged the supporting of that Garden for the improvement of Botany and so consequently was the Occasion of my being employed in a service so agreeable to my natural inclinations , so the favourable opinion you have had of my abilities , when you was pleased to recommend me to that worshipful Company , with the several instances I have since had of your generous inclinations to encourage the Art and me , will ever lay me under the greatest obligations to endeavour to answer that character you was please to give of me and herein humbly hoping to approve myself what I most desire to be thought of … |