Example sentences of "[adj] i [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the latter part of 1943 I was appointed Archdeacon of Rangoon , in which capacity I was enabled to visit groups of Anglo-Burman Anglicans and others who had settled in various Indian centres . |
| 2 | For Christmas 1943 I was asked by Air India to broadcast a Christmas message to Christians in Southeast Asia , which I was glad to do , having our Christian friends of different races in Burma much in mind . |
| 3 | Some time towards the end of 1943 I was approached by the US Office of War Information to see if I would join their staff as adviser on Burmese subjects and language . |
| 4 | ‘ My impulse was to pick them up and hug them , but they are so frail I was afraid they would break . |
| 5 | ‘ That was n't Spanish I was talking to you in . |
| 6 | In 1971 I was hoping for great things , because the British Open was at Birkdale , my home-course , but Tom could n't handle Birkdale . |
| 7 | Unfortunately in 1971 I was not protected from that most pernicious word by those inverted commas . |
| 8 | In 1971 I was in command of Venturous when she was sent to the North West Coast of Scotland , a winter patrol specifically designed to keep a check on the foreign fishing fleets engaged in " Klondyking " . |
| 9 | At 7.30 I am walking out through the town in the direction of Lochy bridge then across Blarmhor . |
| 10 | Oh that 's a bit political Rachael is n't it a bit political I was n't expecting that |
| 11 | ‘ Damn right I am . |
| 12 | Well , she thought , it wo n't be difficult to judge how right I am , if I pay out a few yards of line for him . |
| 13 | Yeah , you 're right I am ! |
| 14 | ‘ You 're damn right I 'm not trying . |
| 15 | That 's right I 'm a bit dodgy on a Wednesday , yeah . |
| 16 | Now if I 'm going to hand out leaflets on the corner in Dayton , you 're damn right I 'm going to the convention now I have the entré . ’ |
| 17 | I think that 's right I 'm sure the architects do those and and there are sort of architects ' practices who are particularly interested in |
| 18 | " Damn right I 'm bothering you . " |
| 19 | Yes , that 's right I 'm going to next Sunday as well . |
| 20 | It 's almost like I 'm a refugee I felt right I 'm like , you know , |
| 21 | How right I was . |
| 22 | ‘ How right I was , ’ she whispered , ‘ to be afraid of what you could do to me . ’ |
| 23 | No that 's right I was just roughly trying to work out |
| 24 | All good stable I 'm talking about , I 'm not talking about ten-a-penny ones , you know ? |
| 25 | But when on first hearing of this arrangement I tried to inform Miss Kenton of it , she once again refused to converse with me , and in order to accomplish matters as quickly as possible I was actually obliged to write a note and put it under the door of her parlour . |
| 26 | Well I think I feel a bit ambivalent on this point because and it 's quite possible I was smiling because I 'm thinking of parts of the report where a huge number of women say that they just deal with this on their own terms , and of course they do . |
| 27 | In 1672 , for example , the Dutch Cromwell , de Witt , was torn limb from limb in the street by a frenzied mob , and in 1986 I was beaten up in a bar . |
| 28 | In the late summer of 1986 I was told the answer was a transplant . |
| 29 | At the end of 1986 I was put on the waiting list and stopped work . |
| 30 | Then I realized how absurd I was being . |