Example sentences of "i be [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is difficult for me to find the limits of the car yet because I am given only a limited number of laps and I do n't know the circuit . ’ |
| 2 | In response to a most generous inquiry , I am putting together a selection of my screenplays for … |
| 3 | I am putting together an album of our preservation activities as we go along and will try to make it available on meeting nights and other public occasions . |
| 4 | When the interviewer , Mr Jeremy Paxman , said he could not be serious Mr Ashdown replied : ‘ I am making very a serious comparison . |
| 5 | ‘ Actually , ’ she said , ‘ you 'll notice I 'm wearing rather a long dress . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm doing quite a lot of work behind the scenes and talking to various people but I 'm not rushing into anything . |
| 7 | I felt as if I were moving just a beat faster than everyone else . |
| 8 | Actually , Cole was n't proposing donations to aid agencies as the ‘ solution ’ to mass starvation any more than Stuart Weir and I were doing so a few years ago . |
| 9 | The sun on my back was warm , but the February nights were still near zero and I was wearing only a sweater . |
| 10 | Mine seem to vary — I was given both a biography of Nancy Reagan , a quite old hardback of TV critical reviews and articles by Clive James and Muriel Spark 's autobiography ( about her childhood in Edinburgh ) recently and have enjoyed them all in different ways . |
| 11 | ‘ I was thinking maybe a Mafia don who 'd turned State 's Evidence against his Family . ’ |
| 12 | I was telling about a dozen girls what would happen to them when they arrived at RAF Wilmslow . |
| 13 | For him to go to Stuttgart he would have had to pay his own way ( I was gaining only a pittance from athletics at this time ) . |
| 14 | I was weighed once a week , but never told my weight . |
| 15 | Except that privately I was lauded quite a lot and told , ‘ Oh that 's good , keep going into the hospitals and doing that ’ , but people could n't acknowledge it in public because their jobs would be on the line . |
| 16 | Well I erm , I was , I was burgled about a year ago and I 'm am ex er , I 'm a retired criminal lawyer , and , but I , I felt that if I lived in the States and trained in the States and I carried a gun then and I felt very vulnerable in not having a gun because he , I was in my own home and he fist me with a knife |
| 17 | Well , it really speeded things up and I was making quite a bit more , but I missed the chat . |
| 18 | I was doing over a hundred k.p.h. then through a miasma of mist , the Pacific glimmering opaquely away to our left and the light fading . |
| 19 | I was allowed only a small chamfer . |