Example sentences of "and [pers pn] be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The experience of being on Iona is nothing less than magical and I am moved to tears . |
| 2 | Notwithstanding the views that have found favour with others I consider this to be a reasonable construction of the statutory provisions and I am comforted in the fact that , apart from an attempt to tax airline employees , which was taken to the special commissioners who decided in favour of the taxpayer , this has been the practice of the Inland Revenue in applying the relevant words where they have occurred in the Income Tax Acts for so long as they have been in force , until they initiated the present cases . |
| 3 | Time buckles and I am skewered to this one moment . |
| 4 | I get to the border , and I am questioned for hours , endless interrogation , and if I am travelling in a car , they open it up and they search it . |
| 5 | ‘ Take me in by your fire for I am shivering with cold and I am lost in the forest … oh be merciful and let me share your fire and give me a cup of milk to sup and a mouthful of bread … ’ |
| 6 | The rock is utterly dry , without seepage or dampness , and I am struck by its temporary appearance . |
| 7 | I am delighted that he has chosen to introduce a Bill on nurse prescribing and I am honoured to be associated with it as one of its sponsors . |
| 8 | So maybe we would have been great to have the skills before I did it , and that 's why I am on the course this Erm , the only thing that I can think of that 's erm , something that I do believe and I am committed to getting changed , is er , a system in our offices , in one of our departments , but I do have erm , authority over the people that I would be talking to , so , I know at the end of the day , I could just say , do it , but I 'm trying to get them to believe in changing erm , and just sort of certain benefits of it . |
| 9 | It is a really virtuoso performance — can I put the tip down on my tax form as ‘ entertainment' ? — and I am reminded of R2D2 , the smaller robot in the Star Wars films . |
| 10 | ‘ This car would love the autoroutes through France , ’ she said , and I am reminded of Françoise Sagan , who motors from Paris to Nice without recourse to the brakes , such is her command of the gear-box . |
| 11 | As the ball hangs there , moon-white against the wall of cloud , everything in the world seems briefly up for grabs and I am seized by two contradictory feelings : there is so much beauty in the world it is incredible that we are ever miserable ; there is so much shit in the world that it is amazing we are happy even for a moment . |
| 12 | ANOTHER Budget bites the dust and I am assailed by the sobering realisation that though I 've been subjected to a fair number of them now , I have n't really understood any . |
| 13 | Sometimes at work I feel I have had enough and I am overwhelmed by the material so that I thirst for meditation which can be a rededication and a balancing of our lives . |
| 14 | It is one in the morning before the sun finally disappears and I am left with twilight rather than lowlight . |
| 15 | The lock clicks back and I am allowed into the inner sanctum . |
| 16 | It appears that ‘ a good time was had by all ’ and I am told by Tony Galvin , GODDB , that planning for this year 's event is proceeding well . |
| 17 | ‘ And I am put in this ward under observation because I am suspected of having heart murmurs and also I am having surgery on my face . |
| 18 | The facts need to be set out , and I am guided in setting out these facts by the useful chronology with which I have been provided . |
| 19 | This should not suggest that my wife and I are cut from the American kind of Anglophilic chintz that may of you like to poke fun at . |
| 20 | Each day , when Tod and I are done with the Gazette , we take it back to the store . |
| 21 | And that 's still something that comes again and again when men and women , when you and I are confronted with the claims of Jesus what about this ? |
| 22 | Do n't forget that for tonight at least you and I are meant to be lovers . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ You think Miller and I are linked in some way ? |
| 24 | Even if the T test is made , WS , BS and I are lowered by -5 each . |
| 25 | Still clasped together , my attacker and I are frogmarched behind the scenes , into one of the little meeting-rooms . |
| 26 | The camel drops ; the guy takes off the sheet and I 'm blinded for about two minutes . |
| 27 | One of them chewed it off and swallowed it and I 'm covered in gashes where they bit into me . ’ |
| 28 | It 's like a speck of dust drifts down and goes into my eye and I look up to see where it came from and I 'm hit by this tonne of bricks ; it hits me that hard . |
| 29 | He has a gorilla mask on and he talks with the voice of a baby and he has a huge syringe and I 'm tied to the seat screaming . |
| 30 | Right , David , you said you 'd been approached by another insurance company , er , I could obviously say , I recommended Abbey Life , and I 'm tied to that , but I actually joined because I think they 're a particularly good company , in that what , in the use they make of the money that I 'm paying , actually goes , performs very well . |