Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | independence I like to be independent |
| 2 | The only place I seemed to be able to reach you was in bed . |
| 3 | In my job I have to be stern . |
| 4 | The gentleman I spoke with was unaware that light aircraft ADF equipment was unable to tune to the half kHz and seemed quite surprised to learn this . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's a name I seem to be stuck with , but it really would be nice to be called something else for a change , says actor Nigel Havers , best known for his role in the ITV series of the same name . |
| 6 | Anyway , one day I started to be sick in reaction to some drugs , and this guy jumped out of bed — the nurses were busy . |
| 7 | The first person I ever came out to as a student was a person I suspected of being gay and everyone else thought he was gay ; in fact , he vehemently denied it after I came out . |
| 8 | Because I love you , and I want what little private life I have to be steady and permanent , ’ Scott said . |
| 9 | The other thing I mean to be healthy it 's more important to dry things and keep them dry for a while than to boil them . |
| 10 | But she had insisted , and although the room was warm , and the kitchen stove had already been made up for the night , I had gone — yet it was a strange experience to me , and rather a frightening one , to have been persuaded by someone near to me into doing even so small a thing I felt to be hazardous . ) |
| 11 | I 'll go and stand in the corner I think for being naughty . |
| 12 | In the end I pretended to be worried that I had left my bicycle lamp on and dashed outside to relieve myself in a flower-bed . |
| 13 | Do n't spread it like putty you know , but , quite a lot I like to be able to taste it where Christine just likes the flavour if you know what I mean . |
| 14 | So the only way I seemed to be able to keep Arthur was to become dependent on him . ’ |
| 15 | After some physiotherapy I hope to be fit to play next week in Telford . ’ |
| 16 | I had this idea I had to be civilised , and wait until I 'd obtained spoken as well as physical consent from you — and then spent days regretting it ! |
| 17 | ‘ Watching it as a professional I had to be concerned about poor defending , but the decision to play three up front certainly caused Southampton problems , ’ he added . |
| 18 | I do n't think I should say sorry for doing what at the time I believed to be right , ’ said the Prime Minister , receiving his loudest ovation of the night . |
| 19 | It 's like I 'm real light — you know , like one of them silver balloons — and every step I have to be careful not to float off . |
| 20 | In this context I continue to be uneasy about the role of the Voluntary Sector Environmental Forum whose terms of reference are clearly relevant to Wales but whose work is largely related to England only . |