Example sentences of "i [be] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or rather I am myself , my new self . |
| 2 | We need a man , a strong man , now ; for I am myself old and must soon die . ’ |
| 3 | His lordship is of the view , as indeed I am myself , that while Father is allowed to continue with his present round of duties , he represents an ever-present threat to the smooth running of this household , and in particular to next week 's important international gathering . ’ |
| 4 | I am myself sceptical about whether the local democratic control espoused by the ‘ New Realists ’ would have the dramatic confidence-building effect claimed . |
| 5 | Nor do I mean people who are generally in favour of human happiness , welfare , dignity and rights , as indeed I am myself . |
| 6 | Although I am myself very much in favour of people going to the theatre and reading books it is very useful for my research for me to play devil 's advocate on these activities and to ask ‘ Why should people go to the theatre ? ’ and ‘ Why should people read books ? ’ |
| 7 | But I am myself an agent ; there remains the question of how I make my own decisions . |
| 8 | Perhaps I am myself no gourmet , and think of food as a matter in which the rational man can excuse himself from making a fully-considered choice . |
| 9 | Then my ugly face and shabby coat harmonise perfectly with the surroundings and I am myself . ’ |
| 10 | I propose to devote a whole chapter to so-called ‘ association copies ’ , partly for the selfish reason that I am myself devoted to them and partly because , looking at them as objectively as I can , they seem to me to offer one of the most satisfying branches of book-collecting , especially to anyone with the slightest sense of history . |
| 11 | ‘ I am myself , after all — no matter what I am wearing . |
| 12 | Clearly there can be no reason why one should not be a feminist and a religious person , in the sense in which I am myself a religious person . |
| 13 | As D. H. Lawrence asked indignantly : " … who can represent me ? — I am myself . |
| 14 | ‘ My mother died at the age I am myself and I never thought I 'd be older than her . |
| 15 | I am myself now quite certain that Hywel knows about Elizabeth and the doctor . |
| 16 | " You wo n't die , Philip , " I am myself again now . |
| 17 | Now I am myself again I can get on with Lover at the Gate . |
| 18 | I am myself , damn you ! |
| 19 | I you know how conservative I am with figures and er with advising you as to what may occur I 'm myself relatively confident that erm we shall meet our ticket sales target by the year end and that there will be no as there as there 's been in previous years since er the aforementioned not to be noted er crisis . |
| 20 | There has always been a vigorous tradition of English studies in adult education , and indeed it was through such classes that I was myself able to become a mature student in the early 1950s . |
| 21 | Perhaps I take a special pleasure in Cold Comfort Farm from the fact that I was myself brought up in a rural setting , surrounded by wild-eyed manic depressives of the Starkadder school , while I was reading the works of D.H.Lawrence and F.R.Leavis , whose loam-laden versions of country life did n't quite chime with mine . |
| 22 | The writing over the next few months of very many letters to these poor people who were as anguished as I was myself , afforded some distraction and mitigated my feelings of isolation . |
| 23 | Just as I was myself going to be killed , the village people managed to save me and take me up to the mountain , but I had lost too much blood and died anyway . |
| 24 | By the time I was myself a prefect , the penny had dropped . |
| 25 | I was myself interested in this concept but found that the word was being used by my colleagues in all sorts of different ways . |
| 26 | An unusual example of this occurred when I was myself collecting historical data about a small town during the course of a local social survey . |
| 27 | ‘ I feel it particularly strongly because , as a Hungarian Jew , I was myself a potential victim of the Holocaust . |
| 28 | ‘ I feel it particularly strongly because , as a Hungarian Jew , I was myself a potential victim of the Holocaust . |
| 29 | No matter what anyone else thought or said , I was beautiful : I was myself . |
| 30 | When I was myself again , Silver was standing with his crutch under his arm , cleaning the blood from his knife with some grass . |