Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difference between you and most other women is that not many of them are granted the opportunity to actually indulge their nostalgia , save mentally . |
| 2 | Amongst them are found the last adepts of controlled altered states , out-of-the-body experience , psycho-navigation , environmental wisdom and time-honoured alternative methods of giving birth , healing , living and dying . |
| 3 | I have a battle to win and would ask only that I am given the chance to do so without intrusion in my private life . |
| 4 | The gentleman with the white waistcoat was standing at the gate with his hands behind him after having delivered himself having witnessed with the donkey he smiled rejoicedly when that the door , he saw at once it was Mr Mr smiled as he pursued the I am said the gentleman in the white waistcoat |
| 5 | This being Ma 's first day back , I am excused the dark , which I so richly deserve … |
| 6 | It would have served as a substitute-gratification for their own sadism ( i.e. , ‘ I can not retaliate against my father , but I can against my younger brother ’ ) ; but also as a defence on the part of the ego ( i.e. , ‘ I am spared the anxiety of being made the object of an attack if I can instead become the attacker ’ ) ; finally , it would also have contributed a first , rudimentary focus for the superego ( i.e. , ‘ My father is not now the attacker — I am — hence I am to that extent my father ! ’ ) . |
| 7 | My own plans are still totally up in the air , except that I am sure to resume my work when the new season gets underway — and then I am just going to make music wherever I am offered the best conditions for it . |
| 8 | I AM disgusted the governor of Crumlin Road Prison stopped Loyalist inmates wearing poppies . |
| 9 | Now that I have also fitted 750 x 16 SAT tyres the vehicle is very sluggish , I am told the solution would be to change the diffs , but to which ones ? |
| 10 | Julie Burchill turns to thriller writing with No Exit ( Mandarin ) ; I am told the sex is there but nowhere near as over the top as in Ambition , but I have n't read it . |
| 11 | I am told the guardian ad litem needs approximately 14 days to prepare an up to date report , which I will order to be prepared . |
| 12 | ( I am told the two storey six-bed house first on left as one descends the hill rents for £350 or so , yes £350 , in high summer ) . |
| 13 | I am told the sky was brilliant and alive with red and green and white flares . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm assured the thing is what they call user friendly . ’ |
| 15 | I believe that if I 'm given the chance to fight the George Forman of old , the George Forman of today would be the better . |
| 16 | and I 'm born the last day in April . |
| 17 | I am going to go into town more , on my night off , and just hang around where I 'm told the prostitutes stand . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm told the school was once part of the mainland . ’ |
| 19 | I 'm told the heir 's not an ill-looking lad . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm told the front rows in the Moore tragedy were so close that they had to bend at the waist to get in ’ , said Akpata . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm told the baby 's very small , ’ the priest said . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm told the Peer does n't expect the French to move till July . ’ |
| 23 | I 'm told the nursemaid takes the child 's food away from him after he 's taken only a bite or so . |
| 24 | I 'm told the press is at a loss , finding little of sufficient calibre elsewhere in publishing to satisfy its extremely demanding requirements . |
| 25 | I 'm told the restaurant there is good . ’ |
| 26 | Luckily , David Norbrook has , in his own words , been ‘ greedily inclusive ’ in his Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse , so I 'm spared the temptation to bore you with a shopping-list of titles that should have gone in but did n't . |
| 27 | I I would do it if I 'm offered the opportunity . |
| 28 | Mm I 'm buttoned the other side , now I do n't want it undone do n't want my buttons undone . |
| 29 | Though I 'm cautions by nature and habit , I have a temper that can flare up if I 'm rubbed the wrong way . |
| 30 | Now I would not want to live in a country where my ex-wife and I were denied the right to another chance . ’ |