Example sentences of "that [pron] am " in BNC.
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1 | All I can tell you with certainty is that I , for one , have no self , and that I am unwilling or unable to perpetrate upon myself the joke of a self . |
2 | You 'll guess what happened when I say that I am now commanding the Company — and in the line I had a seraphic boy-lance-corporal as my sergeant-major . |
3 | Besides , he wrote , now that I am at last working on the big glass and have set up the two panels and locked them into their metal frame , notions like success and failure are no longer pertinent , there is only the project and its outcome , project , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , outcome , and words like success and failure can safely be left to others , wrote Harsnet . |
4 | It is not , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , that I am under any illusion on this score . |
5 | I sometimes feel sorry , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , that I am not of their kind . |
6 | Only if you do that will you be able to say with confidence that I am wrong , that what I am suggesting has not yet come to pass , that there is still time . |
7 | Revulsion at the thought that I am responsible for it . |
8 | Does my writing this down now mean that I am a little bit reconciled to myself ? |
9 | Is the trouble at home that I am hearing of , perhaps , that someone had been — what is the expression ? — boiling the books ? ’ |
10 | It is there that I am putting up . ’ |
11 | The trouble is that I am not a tea-drinker , and so my plants get only the occasional treat when guests visit . |
12 | I said that I am lonely . ’ |
13 | According to the kind of constructivism that I am espousing , the holism of the mental is logically and developmentally dependent upon the holism of directed action . |
14 | ( There are a number of control questions that I am omitting here . ) |
15 | ( And why should n't the kind of holism that I am espousing not help to make processes such as mental imagery more intelligible to us — Piaget published a number of experiments on the development of imagery . ) |
16 | Now that I am retired , I find I am spending more and more time on voluntary charity work , for which I am very happy to take part , and I am hoping to make a start on making small wooden articles including picture and plate frames . |
17 | The set that I am working with has the standard black finish , but the all-bright is available . |
18 | ( It may be objected that I am taking far too earnest a view of a wonderfully comic fictional character . |
19 | ‘ I now feel that I am back to the form I had three years ago , and after my performances in Ireland , I feel I can win the Paris-Tours classic next Saturday , ’ he said . |
20 | In case you think that I am advocating a policy of lunatic aggression , no , I am not . |
21 | He got four years and later emigrated to Australia , whereas I was fined £30 and am welcome on Wogan , except that I am not . |
22 | I 've told my son that I am going to get him a forged passport that will get him into the opposition penalty area . |
23 | Now I find that I am not given it . ’ |
24 | I have had a religious experience — which is not to say , of course , that I am claiming a religious explanation for it . |
25 | Lunching with Lord Dynevor , I told him of my settled feeling that I am playing in the final of the FA Cup , that there are three minutes to go and that my team is 0-4 down . |
26 | Commenting on the letter to Tolba , Mr Lapointe , who has previously insisted that his actions and those of his staff are entirely correct , would only say yesterday : ‘ My comment is that I am fed up with all the garbage . ’ |
27 | Have you never seen a Welshman eating his dinner , or do you think that I am going bomb-happy ? ’ |
28 | ‘ Well , now that I am here it looks like I shall stay until things quieten down . |
29 | The civilians appeared to be very interested in the kilt that I am wearing and , of course , the pipes seem to fascinate them . |
30 | ‘ Well , yes , I must admit , ’ replies management , ‘ that I am making a good thing out of this , the best break we have had for years — you see , my methods of production are so cheap and efficient . ’ |