Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] i [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So in the end , even the chairman agreed I was right . |
| 2 | But I do n't care , as my Mummy says I 'm unique because my ears stand up when they should be down . |
| 3 | BELVILLE : [ desperately ] Once the Countess discovered I was married she resolved we should enter into a system devoted to Platonic Love , in which sex was to have no manner of concern … |
| 4 | As my transsexual obsession deepened I was prone to bouts of morbid depression and I spent a great deal of time thinking about suicide ; suicide was almost a twin obsession at times . |
| 5 | Anyway , mum says I was restless when I returned from my second holiday there . |
| 6 | But my ex-husband says I 'm inclined to be intimidating and also I give out powerful signals that I 'm desperate to get another husband . |
| 7 | ‘ My boss thinks I 'm inefficient ’ |
| 8 | ‘ When I 've played a few games for Lazio , when I 'm ready and the boss says I am fit to return , I will bring the whole family to Wembley to watch me again . |
| 9 | He 's missing but I want to find him without the law knowing I 'm interested . ’ |
| 10 | But she added : ‘ The people at work think I 'm insane and when I showed them the video of the bungee jump it just confirmed their opinion that I 'm a lunatic . ’ |
| 11 | The last time I went ice skating I was pregnant , but I did n't know . |
| 12 | When evening came I was afraid I could n't trust her , because I did n't know how much you suspected , what clever questions you might have to get at the truth . ’ |
| 13 | He went on for a long time — we had such energy , then , in our quarrels — and sank deeper and deeper into what was really absurdity , saying that it was all his fault , he had been a lousy husband , too absorbed in his job to notice I was bored and fretting because I was ‘ wasting my education ’ , and that if only I had been ‘ straight ’ with him , we could have done something to put this right . |
| 14 | But heaven knows I 'm miserable now ’ . |
| 15 | The hymn-like ‘ Heaven Knows I 'm Miserable Now ’ was a testament to the fact that success did n't automatically breed contentment … but it helps . |
| 16 | ‘ Heaven Knows I 'm Miserable Now ’ was a hymn of drunken melancholy ; reflective , beyond bitterness , remote , superficially negative and sincere . |
| 17 | The song made a re-appearance as the flip side to ‘ Heaven Knows I 'm Miserable Now ’ and was brought to the attention of relatives of the murdered ‘ Moors ’ children — Lesley Ann Downey and John Kilbride . |
| 18 | In Sounds , the final round-up of the indie singles chart gave the band 's number one and two with ‘ What Difference Does It Make ’ and ‘ Heaven Knows I 'm Miserable Now ’ respectively with three other singles ( if you count Sandie Shaw 's little effort ) in the top thirty . |
| 19 | The gig continued but was effectively overshadowed by the possibility of impending disaster and it was n't until the encores of ‘ William , It Was Really Nothing ’ , ‘ Heaven Knows I 'm Miserable Now ’ and ‘ Barbarism Begins At Home ’ that they slipped into the comfort of early promise . |
| 20 | Stephen 's big break came in 1984 when a young Manchester band by the name of The Smiths turned up to record a single , Heaven Knows I 'm Miserable Now . |
| 21 | ‘ Heaven Knows I 'm Miserable Now ’ |
| 22 | APART FROM ‘ Heaven Knows I 'm Miserable Now ’ , this was the only Smiths or Morrissey newie or reissue not to receive an NME review . |
| 23 | Mr Nesbit , who took this decision , said : ‘ When the match ended I was conscious of part of the Sunderland crowd starting to leave the stadium and if the team had come out people attempting to leave might have tried to return and this could have led to conflict on the steep Spion Kop terraces . ’ |
| 24 | My wife thinks I 'm paranoid . |
| 25 | My butcher thinks I 'm sexy , so does my daughter 's teacher . |
| 26 | RICHARD Holder , critically ill for two months in hospital , got the best possible pick-me-up yesterday when 33-1 shot Beresfords Girl and 3-1 chance Charmed I 'm Sure scored a 135-1 Exeter double for his Portbury stable . |
| 27 | By the time the phone rang I was well beneath the label . |
| 28 | I scribbled 2 or 3 lines to my friend saying I was sorry circumstances had arisen to prevent my meeting him , sent the note off to my groom , and went on reading the ms . |
| 29 | Pizza 's are a little bit burnt I 'm afraid . |
| 30 | ‘ My father says I 'm mad practically every time I see him . |