Example sentences of "[art] [noun] i am [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be interesting to know whether Petrey really does hold the views I am attributing to him , and whether he thinks that speech act theories of semantics are therefore based on a fundamental error . |
| 2 | Those who pursue comparisons of the kind I am referring to are likely to be impressed by the staying-power of a literary preoccupation to which a variety of temperaments and compulsions has been attracted , and could well be inclined to believe that Pechorin 's duel and indifference may have been among the precedents that weighed , a century later , with a woman bent on contriving her appointment with destiny . |
| 3 | The seats are cushioned , and in the dark I am waiting for more than entertainment . |
| 4 | The subjects I am taking for examination are , Science , English , Mathematics , French , Physical Education , Geography and Art . |
| 5 | The books I am speaking of are , among others , books which pursue the idea of an escape from personality and from society , and in which personality and society are seen — as in Zuckerman 's letter to Maria — to be aspects of a single threat . |
| 6 | But that is the effect , he wrote , that is the effect I am aiming at . |
| 7 | She also upbraids me about the work I am engaged in at Schloss Hartheim . |
| 8 | ‘ I will bring the shoes I am making for you now , the ones with the amethysts as decoration and I will expect payment for the work I 've done , mind . |
| 9 | At the moment I am residing in a hostel where I have to share all the basic amenities and do my share of cleaning up . |
| 10 | First is to Finland and it is to Penti P E N T I , and it reads as follows dear Penti , at the moment I am looking for information on the cost for officially trialing grasses and clovers in your country , stop . |
| 11 | I still add to subjects that are particularly in my line — playground games like marbles , tops and balls — as at the moment I am working on a book about children 's play . |
| 12 | The theme I am looking at in this study is that of the illicit passions of married women and their escape from their places in society . |
| 13 | The point I am labouring at such length is that there is a large and complicated repertoire of non-verbal behaviour without which it is impossible to communicate meanings through the medium of spoken words and although it is tempting to regard this non-lexical repertoire as something which can be painlessly removed without any significant loss of meaning , the experience of reconstructing talk from a medium in which the representation of this aspect of speech is so poor is a salutary reminder of its importance . |
| 14 | Importantly for the point I am making about the study of television genre , Todorov closes his summary of propositions thus : |
| 15 | ‘ And after the first few years , when you get over all that being in love , then it 's : ‘ Oh , this is the person I am living with . ’ |
| 16 | My order will not succeed as an order unless the person I am talking to is obliged to clean their boots ( condition 3 ) , and I have the right and the power to make them do so ( condition 4 ) . |
| 17 | I start up the hill towards Dýrafjöđ3ur but before I reach the top I am treated to some Icelandic weather . |
| 18 | Only weeks after first use , the glasses I am drinking from are etched into cloudy streaks . |
| 19 | It seems that every other person I meet , every paper I pick up , every time I turn on the television I am exhorted to ‘ go green ’ ! |
| 20 | The syllables are raw and cold in my nostrils , like the wetness of the ground I am pressed against . |
| 21 | this makes quick reference easier as I can see at a glance whether the magazine has the pattern I am looking for . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He said : ‘ Because of the operation I am restricted in the physical activity I can do , so I was just messing about with music tapes after the operation when I got around to singing . |
| 24 | As a relative newcomer to The Artist I am revelling in many of your articles . |
| 25 | The incident I am referring to is the government 's plan to shrink and disband many major regiments throughout Britain . |
| 26 | Thinking about the species I am asked about , the Oscar ( Astronotus ocellatus ) is way out in front , with probably 10% or more of queries . |
| 27 | You have probably seen the style I am talking about . |
| 28 | I will pay attention to these things , but one aspect of the specificity of the locales I am dealing with is their relative unimportance . |
| 29 | The man I am talking about got up slowly . |
| 30 | After all , that 's the amount I am receiving on my War Loan Stock . |