Example sentences of "[adv] i am [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right I am saying it 's people that I 've spoken to . |
| 2 | I leave my car to talk with them , and suddenly I am attacked , my wallet taken . |
| 3 | Naturally I am addressing this letter particularly to those of you — the majority — who resisted all temptations and ‘ pressure selling ’ techniques to which you were exposed , and stayed with us ! |
| 4 | ‘ Naturally I am fighting to win . |
| 5 | I am get down I am going to miss you . |
| 6 | There are some other interesting strategies recommended in the book and as someone who has always been frustrated by his inability to draw nicely I am bound to admit that the exercises suggested by Miss Edwards have brought about an unexpected improvement in my performance as a draughtsman . |
| 7 | Perhaps I am drowning . |
| 8 | ’ And from , or nearly from , the outset there is the hint of a three-cornered relationship in which the future reader of the as yet unwritten Possessed joins novelist and narrator in a conspiracy to uphold the truth of the fiction : ‘ Altogether , when I describe conversations , even tête-à-tête conversations between two people — do n't worry : either I have hard facts , or perhaps I am inventing them myself — but in any case rest assured that everything is true . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps I am hoping that temper will sustain you through this ordeal . |
| 10 | But perhaps I am shirking my responsibilities by being here , in the police force . ’ |
| 11 | Perhaps — though I hardly dare pen the thought — perhaps , perhaps I am beginning to glimpse or sense out of this pain and this cold and this exhaustion and this fear and this hunger the presence or the comfort of some other thing , some other force more powerful or resilient than my own weakening frame . |
| 12 | ‘ If I am a caveman , perhaps I am influenced by these islands ’ proliferation of caves ? ’ he suggested , grinning . |
| 13 | Perhaps I am seeing difficulties where none need exist but it 's worth keeping an eye on . |
| 14 | Perhaps I am becoming too gullible in my old age . |
| 15 | ‘ Perhaps I am atoning for my misspent youth , ’ he replied amiably . |
| 16 | Perhaps I am cracking up . |
| 17 | However , perhaps I am asking too much , because at £10.99 this is certainly a worthwhile text with a refreshing approach . |
| 18 | Perhaps I am dreaming , he thought , perhaps I have simply conjured him up . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ If I am half as good a player as Paul McGrath I 'll be satisfied — but obviously I am hoping to become better than him . ’ |
| 20 | Unfortunately my driving licence has an old address on so I am sending you a copy of my vehicle registration form which does include my present address . |
| 21 | So I am telling the honourable gentleman yes indeed there there is a precedent . |
| 22 | So I am trying to get the new librarian to push all those books into one section … and maybe we could have a trolley and push that around and have it in the lower school … |
| 23 | Er I was aware that the so I am taking that summing up speech . |
| 24 | And so I am pasted to this leaning morass , observing the simplest of equations . |
| 25 | Quite by chance in collecting material for I have come across a cousin who is the communications and Public relations person at so I am to put them in touch with each other as the one in London has just had a letter from another in Vancouver trying to do family research . |
| 26 | So I am pleading that the panel really take a great deal of effort in this leaflet so that it is going to be easily understood by even the people who are less well educated than some of us . |
| 27 | So I am asking you to stay on in Rome until her recovery is complete . ’ |
| 28 | Yes , I think you 're drawing a distinction between what you do in practice and what you 're booklet says , so I am talking about the letter of your booklet and what you do in practice might be a lot better . |
| 29 | So I am constrained by my material world — the practicalities of my material circumstances — just as much as by my physical world . |
| 30 | So I am improving . |