Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [adv] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they and the families which ran them are now as much a part of local history as pits and shipbuilding . |
| 2 | ‘ Fortunately I am here and therefore I can save you a trip , Bernard . ’ |
| 3 | What happens when I extend this approach from myself , as I am here and now , to other persons , places and times ? |
| 4 | I see the future , plan the Universe , save mankind ; I am utterly and completely immortal ; I am even male and female . |
| 5 | His Ford Sierra Cosworth was taken from a hotel car park in Chester on the eve of the event and he said : ‘ I am utterly and totally hacked off . |
| 6 | FORMER tennis champion Bjorn Borg — being sued for £400,000 — claimed yesterday : ‘ I am more or less bankrupt . ’ |
| 7 | I am more or less a consultant to them . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I am more and more intrigued , every minute , ’ Catherine said . |
| 9 | Instead , try ‘ I am more and more at peace with myself , or ‘ I am healthy , and becoming more and more healthy ’ . |
| 10 | But I am more and more convinced that the problem is not at heart a technical problem capable of a technical solution but a moral problem concerned with the values of our age . |
| 11 | ‘ I am more and more Christian as I walk the unchristian ways of Christendom ’ , he wrote , confessing himself ‘ a conscientious objector with a very seared conscience ’ . |
| 12 | Having said this , I am still as ever quite prepared to show any curious , doubting lady ( providing she be attractive ) that my credentials are in order … |
| 13 | I am always and everywhere his place ; if I am the barren land he thinks to water into an oasis I am also the blight on his crops and the locust destroying grain ; I am both the ruined harvest and the shameful blood that sickens cattle . |
| 14 | Edward knew he was being pampered and , in his letters to Helen about his friendship with Gwili 's sister , he confessed that ‘ in fact it was partly you that I saw when I held her : I hope I shall never forget her ; then I shall feel that it is possible to love another even though I am all and ever yours , little one . |
| 15 | I am definitely and permanently female . ’ |
| 16 | Next you face the laborious business of cooling , of reassembly , of storage , before the return of these foodstuffs to the Superette , where , admittedly , I am promptly and generously reimbursed for my pains . |
| 17 | In the complex interactions between myself and the countless others with whom I am remotely or directly engaged , my self-awareness and the self-regarding inclinations which it generates may occupy only a small part of my field of awareness , and not for any moral reason ; I feel myself spontaneously pulled towards admiration as well as pride , submission as well as power , masochism as well as sadism , judging myself from other viewpoints as well is judging others from mine . |
| 18 | I 'm just and then you can |
| 19 | I said if I was n't awake I 'm well and truly awake now . |
| 20 | I must confess I was surprised , curious and highly delighted when er you invited me to speak to you here today and er I 'm very and sincerely pleased that you did . |
| 21 | He commented aloud , with a delighted laugh , ‘ You know , I 'm more and more convinced that the illustrious Don , the genial thinker , was n't taking a revenge on his family , or plotting the downfall of the house of Beatillo , or shaking the structure of property and power in these parts , or thumbing his nose at you-know-who . |
| 22 | ‘ Honey , I 'd love to , but I 'm more or less stuck here as much as you are at the moment . |
| 23 | Is it possible when we get a new member of , that , not that they 're brought round , which I think must be frightfully intimidating , but that we are told , and therefore we can drop in and say , hello , I 'm so and so , just to say hello . |
| 24 | But he does n't , and I 'm less and less convinced I 'd react like that if he did . |
| 25 | ‘ Not that I 'm all that well up in musical matters . ’ |
| 26 | Besides myself there were three other passengers , but they all disembarked at Rarotonga , and after that , for the three days at sea before we reached Koraloona , Robins and I were more or less on our own . |
| 27 | I was away and then I had that awful little cough first thing in the morning erm and I think I , to be quite honest , I lost interest in going . |
| 28 | He could see that I was slowly but surely getting back to my old self , and to my own poetry . |
| 29 | I woke up in the middle of the night to find that I was completely and utterly saturated . |
| 30 | Many of the applicants who had looked suitable had been rejected and I deduced that I had been selected because I had not tried to glamorise my life history , and because I was medically and physically fit . |