Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] i am " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been convinced for a long time that people could not love , accept or respect me for the person I am , only for the amazing amount of exercise I can do . |
| 2 | " 10 is for the shit I blew over you and 10 is for the shit I am just about to blow over you , Good-day sir . " |
| 3 | For the moment I am concentrating mostly on the fact that I am riding under the Arctic sky , a very black sky , heavily overcast , being pulled across the ice by a team of dogs . |
| 4 | I have used the last of the old chemicals , and for the moment I am Henry Jekyll again . |
| 5 | For the moment I am Henry Jekyll again . |
| 6 | ‘ For the moment I am in sole charge of this death . |
| 7 | This is because the method poses what may be a false question , ‘ is this structure necessary for the process I am studying ? ’ , when what we really want to know is ‘ what part does this structure play in the process I am studying ? ’ |
| 8 | Open your heart for the gift I am bringing . |
| 9 | Importantly for the point I am making about the study of television genre , Todorov closes his summary of propositions thus : |
| 10 | In these days of concern for the environment I am unwilling to use peat ( though I did try it some years ago and found my plants made little headway anyway ) . |
| 11 | During the DTS I am determined to see these seeds grow ! |
| 12 | The sprightly priest , who has taken over the parish of St Paulinus in St Helen Auckland in County Durham , said : ‘ As long as I am fit as the way I am now I will continue to serve the community . ’ |
| 13 | About the rest I am content to be agnostic . ’ |
| 14 | Thinking about the species I am asked about , the Oscar ( Astronotus ocellatus ) is way out in front , with probably 10% or more of queries . |
| 15 | Finding out about the areas I am flying over instead of treating them as legs and turning points gives a new pleasure to flight . |
| 16 | She also upbraids me about the work I am engaged in at Schloss Hartheim . |
| 17 | But it 's kind of a shame , because I 'm only one element of blackness that you can see on television , and I 'll tell you , if I 'd been a kid and seen someone like me on telly , I 'd be a hell of a lot happier about the way I am in this world . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | After the election I am sure any enthusiasm he shows for this issue will disappear as quickly as he will . |
| 20 | ‘ After the crash I am still 100 per cent . |
| 21 | Never in my life , he wrote , have I known so exactly what step to take after the step I am in the process of taking , and then what step to take after the step I will take after the step I am in the process of taking . |
| 22 | Never in my life , he wrote , have I known so exactly what step to take after the step I am in the process of taking , and then what step to take after the step I will take after the step I am in the process of taking . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ Sometimes at the end of the day I am drained , ’ said Ann , who has been doing the job at Courtaulds Packaging company in Colchester , UK , for 10 years . |
| 26 | I also got the distinct impression that Herta disapproves of the work I am doing here . |
| 27 | One of the things I am obviously gon na have to look at is the what you 've done in the last two or three years because traditionally erm we would n't ask van drivers to come along and see us . |
| 28 | Mr Chandler , who lives in Reading , said : ‘ Regardless of the outcome of the case I am convinced that the legal system would be unable to make the punishment fit the crime . |
| 29 | That 's part of the character I am — I use humour as a protection . |
| 30 | I ca n't tell him of the analogies I am cheerfully fabricating . |