Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [vb pp] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was pleasant but had I been blindfolded I would not have been able to tell the difference from its cheaper , non-organic counterpart . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ I realise I have been the bane of certain UKCC officers ’ lives and I hope that if I am elected I will continue to act as a grain of sand in the oyster . |
| 3 | ‘ If I am invited I shall be delighted to go with them and then I will see if I play or not . |
| 4 | I thought I must join some service which is considered sufficiently hazardous , because when I am conscripted I can say I do n't wish to fight but I am ready to do my part in National Service . |
| 5 | ( i ) If I am anaesthetized I do not feel the prick of the needle . |
| 6 | BELVILLE : I am resolved she shall return to the distress and poverty she was taken from . |
| 7 | ‘ ' Shortly after he looked me full in the face and said , ‘ You have been a good father to me and I am persuaded we shall meet again in heaven |
| 8 | I think it fortunate that I met him as I am persuaded I can cure him of his disorder or turn the evil to good ’ . |
| 9 | As soon as I am settled I shall send you my permanent address ’ . |
| 10 | I am told they have touched pawning as well . |
| 11 | I remember little of my stay in the intensive care unit , but I am told they cared for me every second of the night and day . |
| 12 | I am told he has been preparing some appropriate acts . |
| 13 | I am told he is turning to wolves for the next . |
| 14 | I am told it was never finished , that it never will be finished , that it is not worth finishing . |
| 15 | I am told it is a result of his ‘ re-structuring ’ at the clinic . |
| 16 | ‘ I am told it is a different skill . |
| 17 | I am told it made wonderful television . |
| 18 | At first all that would come into it were moralising precepts about drink which he remembered from having to copy them as exercises when he was a student : I am told you go from street to street where everything stinks to the gods of alcohol . |
| 19 | I am told you were recently criticised by a learned judge for wrongly sending a Romany for trial to the Assizes in Oxford ? ’ |
| 20 | I am told you have bought up a large quantity of corn lately , which has been the means of raising the price of corn to such a degree , as to incense the tinners so much against you … that I am credibly informed no less than a thousand of them will be with you tomorrow early : they are first to assemble at Chacewater and then proceed for Falmouth . |
| 21 | Here I am told I 'm free , I 'm the equal of everyone , fair play is the name of the game . |
| 22 | First , to my good neighbours who very quickly alerted my GP and to two splendid ambulancemen to whom I am told I owe my existence . |
| 23 | I am saddened he has to end his career going out of Giants stadium on a golf cart . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Yes — but unless I 'm mistaken it 'll mean a lot more to the man who attacked Anna . |
| 25 | I bought him some of those cheekies Hey you know I 'm said I knew I forgotten something out of Gateways , do n't you ? |
| 26 | But er when I 'm gone it 's too late . |
| 27 | Lot number forty one , the brass sticks there we are , we 've got one of them showing for you just one of them showing , I 've got a hundred and fifty offered for it , one fifty , sixty , seventy , eighty one ninety , two hundred I 'm bid I 'm offered two hundred pounds , anybody else at two hundred and selling at two hundred , two twenty , two forty going on ? |
| 28 | yeah , I find that , that I 've done it and I 've written down the answer and then I ca n't think which number does it go to , and by the time I 've got to number one they 're on about six , so I might as well , I 'm lost it completely , so I ca n't do that either and my project work , course work , goes towards certain percent of my marks and I ca n't think for the life of me why |
| 29 | Anyway , because I 'm engaged it does n't mean that I ca n't appreciate other men 's attractiveness . |
| 30 | I 'm caught you know betwixt and between , which do I like the best . |