Example sentences of "[noun sg] i am [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PS I am attaching the relevant sections of the script |
| 2 | So of his falling in love with Mrs Moore we are merely informed that ‘ even if I were free to tell the story , I doubt if it has much to do with the subject of this book , ’ and of his father 's death in the late summer of 1929 that this ‘ does not really come into the story I am telling ’ . |
| 3 | No wonder , then , that when he came to write up the experience in Surprised by Joy he should have been so insistent that his father 's last illness and death ‘ does not really come into the story I am telling ’ . |
| 4 | In The French Lieutenant 's Woman ( 1969 ) , John Fowles ( or a version of him ) intrudes famously — or notoriously — into chapter thirteen to discuss his tactics and emphasize that ‘ this story I am telling is all imagination . |
| 5 | I did actually get over to work for them in 1968–70 and 1971 , but this story I am referring to was in 1967 when I was just paying a visit and was given a bed for the night in the hostel . |
| 6 | After the Danish referendum I am tempted to ask : What new Europe ? |
| 7 | But this , I think , will , in the class of case I am considering , be very rare . |
| 8 | ‘ Dottore , I strongly resent the assumption that anybody is in a position to dictate to me what is or is not relevant to a case I am investigating . |
| 9 | ‘ They are my bodyguards , Sir John , my assistants in case I am attacked . ’ |
| 10 | NORMALLY I insist on using the names of people who contact me for help , but in this case I am making an exception . |
| 11 | As a young person , I am often quite afraid to go out on the streets in case I am approached by one of these grey-haired vandals and informed how much worse the world is these days or interrogated as to why young people do n't have any respect anymore . |
| 12 | For instance , erm erm a good illustration of this is Locke 's erm erm argument on the right of inheritance and erm in this case I am quoting from the first treatise of government the right a son has to be maintained , has to be maintained and provided with the necessary the necessities and conveniences of life out of his father 's stock gives him a right to succeed to his father 's property for his own good but this can give him no right to succeed also to the rule which his father had over other men . |
| 13 | I give you my word there will be one , if it 's the last case I am allowed to handle . ’ |
| 14 | I leap outside into the snow , stand ankle deep in the snow and strain frantically at the same time trying to remember which direction I am pointing so that I can give instructions about where not to get the snow for tomorrow 's tea . |
| 15 | But in current conditions the change I am making will help to ease the pressures on liquidity and avoid complicating money market arrangements . |
| 16 | The contrast I am trying to draw between courage on the one hand , and isug or tapang on the other , is similar to that between guilt and shame . |
| 17 | In the framework I am suggesting , the answer might be that he did . |
| 18 | Those who pursue comparisons of the kind I am referring to are likely to be impressed by the staying-power of a literary preoccupation to which a variety of temperaments and compulsions has been attracted , and could well be inclined to believe that Pechorin 's duel and indifference may have been among the precedents that weighed , a century later , with a woman bent on contriving her appointment with destiny . |
| 19 | It 's your ingenuity I am rewarding . ’ |
| 20 | My parents still do n't know what course I am pursuing at a college of education . |
| 21 | So far as the availability of evidence before the justices , again , I say little because of the course I am going to take but there clearly was evidence for them to consider and assess . |
| 22 | Again , I am not going to say anything about the length of the order or how it should be arrived at , because of the course I am going to take . |
| 23 | As Jenny Randles says in Abduction ( according to Mr Marr , the only really reliable guide to the spacenapping phenomenon ) , ‘ Of course I am making no assumptions about what it means to have been abducted [ by aliens ] , but if some researchers are correct many of you reading this book might have undergone an abduction experience without consciously realizing it . ’ |
| 24 | As part of my degree course I am required to make a study of the impact of the General Strike of 1926 on Alton and the surrounding area . |
| 25 | Of course I am addicted to Alexis although I admit the entire thing is very far fetched . |
| 26 | ‘ This afternoon I am going out to do some Christmas shopping and I am enjoying every minute . |
| 27 | This afternoon I am going to a memorial service for a woman who devoted her whole life to caring for others . |
| 28 | We did , of course , over the years of working closely together come to have some very frank exchanges , but the afternoon I am recalling was still early in our relationship and I can not see even Miss Kenton having been so forward . |
| 29 | Finally , after reading Practical PC I am attracted by the idea of building my own computer . |
| 30 | Sums of money I am describing tonight are large , revenue and capital spending combined , of over three thousand million pounds is many times the amount spent by quangos in Wales outside the health service and the grant represents a large share of my total budget for Wales and I hope members opposite are not suggesting I should cut spending on health , that is a vital service which I thought they supported as well . |