Example sentences of "i be [prep] my " in BNC.
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1 | I am at her mercy at the moment though I keep her and pay her well and might look with justice for harder work from her , but when I am over my lying-in I will be behind her you can be sure . |
2 | I am sure some of the guys in my workshop think I am off my trolley . |
3 | Please ( grovel grovel grovel ) help me as I am at my wits ' end with all this shit . |
4 | Q I am at my wits end . |
5 | He is at his strongest ( and I am at my weakest ) when only six or seven balls remain , when wariness is all . |
6 | I pretend I am at my father 's in the spring of my eighth year , staying awake late together , the two of us , miles past bedtime , eating cold takeout spaghetti from the local Italian deli , watching My Man Godfrey on hastily edited late night television , the tiny room dark but for the flicker of a tatty late night screen , our tired eyes bleary but soft , placid , from feeding . |
7 | However , the point you have to erm , recall , is that if it 's a conflict between parental investment in a sibling and parental investment in myself , I am twice as closely related to myself as I am to my sibling . |
8 | ‘ I am on my own , ’ said Jay . |
9 | Thus my impulse to assist the injured animal may be overridden by my reminding myself that I am on my way to get married and am already late . |
10 | A further delay before I am on my feet and , in fact , it is now tomorrow . |
11 | ‘ I am on my way down to the reprocessing area . |
12 | Now I 've found out how hopeless I am on my own … ’ |
13 | ‘ I am on my way to take up a situation as companion and had to put up here to catch the cross stage tomorrow . ’ |
14 | At least down there I am on my own . |
15 | While I am on my feet , perhaps I may apologise for referring in an earlier answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Northampton , North when I meant my hon. Friend the Member for Littleborough and Saddleworth ( Mr. Dickens ) , who made the suggestion . |
16 | I am on my feet . |
17 | John Major gave a Brixton twirl , and , spinning Hyacinth round , replied , ‘ Ca n't you see how quick I am on my feet ? ’ |
18 | here I am on my bed inlaid with lapis |
19 | I am on my feet . |
20 | Halfway up the hill I turn off , and now I am on my own . |
21 | So I 'm spending just exactly as much time on incoming and tea card collections , as erm , as I am on my training . |
22 | ‘ I am on my way . ’ |
23 | getting attacked in pubs you know like that 's happened to me , being verbally assaulted in the street has happened to me because I am with my lover who is a woman , who publicly I can not show like that love , publicly you know cos oh I 'm scared of violence you know , I like my face the way it is . |
24 | I dream that I am with my family , and Elizabeth and Henry . |
25 | I am with my son in Egypt . |
26 | I am with my mother , stepfather and half brother who are in London for a week . |
27 | I would like to know what the charge would have been , whether it is legal to do this , and whether I am within my rights to address mail to my grandson under his old surname . |
28 | For example if I am in my late fifties and I have a mother in her early eighties and she dies I will grieve for her . |
29 | If , on the other hand , I am in my early twenties and my parents are in their forties and one of them dies I will grieve in the same way , but am likely to be taken unawares and be unprepared . |
30 | Suppose I go through door B ( to the bathroom , say ) , and find that a new door has been constructed in position X. Next time I am in my armchair and want coffee , would I pursue the path A-B-X-D-E , which is a bit shorter than A-C-D-E ? |