Example sentences of "i [be] make " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I know that a lot of people think I am made of steel . |
| 2 | WHAT HAPPENS IF I AM ILL , HAVE AN ACCIDENT OR I AM MADE REDUNDANT ? |
| 3 | As a student PPL I am made fully aware of noise restrictions , especially at take-off , ensuring that we keep left of certain farm buildings etc . |
| 4 | ‘ I have n't actually fixed a time when I will return , it just depends when I am made some offers . ’ |
| 5 | Q What happens if I am ill , have an accident or I am made redundant ? |
| 6 | Salutary , because I am made more aware of the advances made in developing the nursing role in health care . |
| 7 | Subtext : I will not split the party if I am made chancellor . |
| 8 | I am made Deacon ; I escape by a hairsbreadth being made a priest . |
| 9 | His head was full of sentences he was going to write to Hilary when he had the time to put pen to paper : I may remind you that I never asked you for a penny towards the summer gas bill … do you think I am made of stone ? … surely I deserve better consideration … who listened for hours when you had that disagreement at Bromley over Fortescue upstaging you in She Stoops to Conquer … have you forgotten that it was I , when your mother had her second stroke , who travelled with her in the ambulance and went back on the bus to collect her plaster replica of the Sacred Heart ? |
| 10 | At the beginning of one of his books I discovered these words , which to me in my lowly condition were more than words : ‘ I am made unlike anyone I have ever met ; I will even venture to say that I am like no one in the whole world . ’ |
| 11 | Is the fault in her or in me , because I am strangely made , because , as Rousseau said , ‘ I am made unlike anyone I ever met ’ ? |
| 12 | I tried this out : starting now , I am made |
| 13 | ‘ I am not quite the Hochhauser rapist I am made out to be , but I expect a little peck , just here , on the cheek . ’ |
| 14 | This is not just a point I am making in passing . |
| 15 | ‘ I am making every effort to avoid the inn being sold , ’ he said . |
| 16 | To loose them off together , scatter-gun fashion : Stavrogin says ‘ I am making this statement , incidentally , to prove I am in full possession of my mental faculties and understand my position ’ ; ‘ I want to forgive myself , this is my chief aim , my whole aim ’ ; ‘ I want everyone to look at me ’ ; ‘ I fall back on this as my last resource ’ ; ‘ The thing about me then was I felt bored with life , sick and tired of it ’ ; ‘ I am seeking boundless suffering ’ ; ‘ I took it into my head to mutilate my life somehow ’ ( not necessarily the same thing as seeking suffering , any more than seeking suffering need entail accepting it ) . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , yes , I must admit , ’ replies management , ‘ that I am making a good thing out of this , the best break we have had for years — you see , my methods of production are so cheap and efficient . ’ |
| 18 | This is emphatically not the claim I am making here . |
| 19 | The wind drops slightly as I am making myself another cup of tea and I like the idea of going out to watch the sun go down . |
| 20 | I tell them I am making a good living , that I can support a child , that I want a baby more than anything , but they refuse . ’ |
| 21 | The point I am making is that , from the viewpoint of scholarship , fundamentalism is dead , but it wo n't lie down at the grass roots level . |
| 22 | ‘ I am making us coffee . |
| 23 | I am making a speech tomorrow about film makers and journalists and the absolute obligation both of us have to express the truth about the complexity of the world . ’ |
| 24 | When the interviewer , Mr Jeremy Paxman , said he could not be serious Mr Ashdown replied : ‘ I am making very a serious comparison . |
| 25 | Even more relevant to the point I am making is the sudden realisation that this , as the name implies , is really a United Kingdom : a composite and diverse , not a monolithic structure And above all the discovery that there are parts of the UK which share with them a history of colonial or quasi-colonial exploitation , and where people speak of development problems in a language they understand . |
| 26 | The non-trivial point I am making is that the difference is not in the presence of an additional reason for action , but in the existence of a pre-emptive reason . |
| 27 | Importantly for the point I am making about the study of television genre , Todorov closes his summary of propositions thus : |
| 28 | The point I am making , here , is tentative and preliminary : it is simply that , unlike cinema which is still a ‘ specialized activity ’ , television 's relation to the everyday seems more determining than its relation to fantasy . |
| 29 | The point I am making now is that , even if we look on the dark side and assume that individual man is fundamentally selfish , our conscious foresight — our capacity to simulate the future in imagination — could save us from the worst selfish excesses of the blind replicators . |
| 30 | Eschewing the considerable underlying complexities in the points that I am making , I would argue that there is a fundamental difference between ‘ understanding information ’ and ‘ understanding the full potential value of information ’ : . |