Example sentences of "i [am/are] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Each day , when Tod and I are done with the Gazette , we take it back to the store . |
| 3 | My wife and I are staying at the Danieli , but she 's not been feeling well and urged me to take up the offer of an observer 's seat here . ’ |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | Still clasped together , my attacker and I are frogmarched behind the scenes , into one of the little meeting-rooms . |
| 6 | And now , on a clear morning , Graham Little and I are sitting at the bottom of the wall , fit and ready to go , and the wall is plastered with verglas . |
| 7 | Fairfax and I are sitting on the verandah at Folly Farm . |
| 8 | Mary saw the scribbled-over envelope , smiled and said , " Reggie and I are going to the Greenpeace demo tomorrow afternoon . " |
| 9 | I am thinking about the table that is |
| 10 | I am thinking of the death of Primo Levi , an autobiographer , and by certain standards an amateur ; of the threatened death of the novelist Salman Rushdie ; and of the discovery of the fascist sympathies formerly exhibited by the literary theorist Paul de Man . |
| 11 | Conversely , national issues which were serious or even explosive before 1914 have receded : I am thinking of the famous ‘ Macedonian Question ’ , the Ukraine , or even the demand for the restoration of historic Poland . |
| 12 | ‘ I am thinking of the children of Sarajevo , of Banja Luka , of the peoples of Bosnia , ’ he said . |
| 13 | I am thinking of the child becoming part of a new family so that the new parents become the ‘ psychological parents ’ , and thus offer a sense of security , a sense of belonging , of being loved , until the child reaches adulthood and beyond . |
| 14 | Here I am thinking of the definition of race exclusively in terms of culture and identity which ties certain strands in antiracism to the position of some of the new right ideologues . |
| 15 | I am thinking of the current situation in Somalia and of events in eastern Europe . |
| 16 | A colossal number of Housing Executive dwellings in my constituency are in urgent need of renovation — I am thinking of the housing estates at Tullycarnet , Ballybeen , Groomsport , Bangor and Holyrood . |
| 17 | I am proceeding in the belief that there is a unity in developmental mechanisms , and whilst the sea-urchin provided an excellent model , there are other examples to be considered . |
| 18 | I do not answer , nor do I open my eyes , but I am stirred by the relentless bleep and static of the answerphone ; words , artificial like a megaphone , filtering through . |
| 19 | I am struck by the image of ‘ fire ’ in ‘ Paterson . ’ |
| 20 | Since I started as an engineer , and have ended as a biologist , I am struck by the similarities between the two ways of thinking , although there is the difference that an engineer starts with a function to be performed , and designs a structure to perform it , whereas a biologist often starts with a structure , and has to work out the function it is performing . |
| 21 | I am struck by the pervasiveness of assumptions of genre in writing and thinking about television , and by the simultaneous difficulty of identifying where the theoretical groundings of these assumptions lie . |
| 22 | Having inspected hundreds of buildings of every conceivable age and style , from ancient castle to modern semi , and having supervised the construction , maintenance and preservation of hundreds more , from hi-tech laboratories to family homes , I am struck by the huge difference between the well designed and built , and the badly designed and built , the latter being at the heart of most of the horror stories . |
| 23 | During that time he sought inspiration and enrichment of the texture of the story in the surrounding countryside , in the paintings of Turner ( ‘ What he paints chiefly is light as modified by objects ’ ) and Romney ( ‘ I am struck by the red glow of [ his ] backgrounds , and his red flesh shades ’ ) , in the faces of women he met at dinner parties or saw by chance in a passing omnibus . |
| 24 | I am struck by the immense change from social barbarism to social civilisation which has taken place in London ( indeed in Great Britain ) during my lifetime . |
| 25 | Looking back over this chapter I am struck by the dreadful pitfalls which seem to beset every step which the sociologist might contemplate taking in documentary research . |
| 26 | I am struck by the paucity of hon. Members in the Chamber . |
| 27 | Until I come right inside , I am hidden from the wash basins . |
| 28 | I place my chair to the left of the swim so that I am hidden behind the wall of rushes and have a good viewpoint of both rods . |
| 29 | ‘ I am honoured by the prince 's interest — but I doubt not it stems from mere curiosity as to my connection with her for whom he has a brotherly fondness . ’ |
| 30 | But when I am kicked in the groin in my father 's house , when I am taunted and called ‘ nigger ’ and ‘ black bastard ’ , when I am arrested as a result of police harassment , at those times I am ashamed to be British . |