Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] i am [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel as if I am poised somewhere on the edge of a slope , and about to slide down when I am supposed to be climbing up . |
| 2 | ‘ Do I look as if I am joking , Miss Bishop ? ’ |
| 3 | I will not say that much of this debate has been irrelevant , because that sounds as if I am dismissing what has been said , which I am not , but it is irrelevant in the context of 1993 , because the advent of the new system will answer many of the problems that have been identified . |
| 4 | I feel as if I am watching something happen to someone else . ’ |
| 5 | Does it sound as if I am striving to avoid saying that the music is boring ? |
| 6 | But Calatin 's banqueting hall and the house in the forest had wavered and grown dim — ‘ as if I am seeing it through water , ’ thought Fergus — and there had been a great heaviness within him so that it was difficult to breathe . |
| 7 | ‘ Do I look as if I am jesting ? ’ |
| 8 | Then why do I always feel as if I am falling off the edge of a cliff ? |
| 9 | Neighbours and friends tell me that when I am racing you can hear the noise right down the street ; it is as if I am running in Dad 's front room ! |
| 10 | I 've been written off and battled back before and I am determined to do so again . ’ |
| 11 | Suppose that I point at a chair and say ‘ By ‘ chair ’ I mean that ’ , nothing in what I have done creates the desired meaning for the word ‘ chair ’ unless I can further characterise what it is about the object I am pointing to that I am taking as relevant ; for example , I might say ‘ that sort of furniture ’ , and this would improve matters , but I have to have the concept of furniture first . |