Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 A lot of them are going out of the area , but I think er I 'd imagine that a large majority or a a large proportion certainly would wish to stay in .
2 Dixie and I are dressed up for the Island .
3 Hamish and I are going over to the Island to see her next weekend .
4 Hi , After lengthy negotiations in private , Gav & I are going along to the Sunderland game together on Wednesday .
5 But I am thinking back to the days before the war — the ‘ 39–45 war in Europe , that is — when a reporter was actually expected to know the place he was writing about .
6 ‘ I will be absolutely gutted if I am ruled out of the derby .
7 The success — I am looking out of the window at the thickly carpeted mountainside — comes from the knowledge of shared weakness , the weakness of both men and women in matters of sex and passion .
8 I am looking down on the world , but it does not stretch away over nebulous distant horizons .
9 ‘ I have not eaten and I am in rags and all I ask is a share of your fire before I am turned out into the cold night again …
10 We will get over it and I am getting on with the work in hand . ’
11 I am cut off at the waist for ever .
12 Unfortunately I am tied up for the next month or so with filming commitments , but I hope we can arrange some time in July .
13 I am to remain ill and without treatment , I am to carry on with the exhausting task of caring for an old and senile woman . ’
14 By nightfall I am fed up with the search and determined to leave tomorrow for at least one day on Drangajökull .
15 I 'm sure you 've heard it thousands of times before but I am fed up with the way I look .
16 I am fed up with the power of the normally aspirated diesel engine in my ‘ 84 Ninety .
17 I AM fed up with the media blasting Kenya 's tourist industry .
18 However , my corresponding Ego fantasy is of losing my wits to such an extent that I am unable to work ; I am living in a filthy bedsit and the floor is strewn with pieces of paper that I am unable to make sense of , final demands which have not been paid , dirty clothes , plants which have fallen over , unwashed plates and mugs — and I am curled up in a foetal ball , wishing the world would go away !
19 I am curled up in the armchair , flicking through a book .
20 He said : ‘ I am 24 now and I am signed up for the next five years .
21 till I am smothered back into the stone
22 ‘ The plain fact is , ’ Niki noted , ‘ that I am caught up in an insane series of setbacks which are oppressive in their consistency and which seem to … prey on my mind .
23 The directive is based on minimum standards — but I am caught out by the time , Madam Deputy Speaker .
24 At 7.30 I am walking out through the town in the direction of Lochy bridge then across Blarmhor .
25 ‘ You had better get yourself into the washhouse and clean yourself up , ’ she said , ‘ I am going round to the Post Office and let Sid Watkins know . ’
26 Does this mean that as I am going up in the lift , I see it expanding ? ’
27 If this is it , I am sure I am going out on the highest note possible . ’
28 Mr. Chairman , ladies and gentlemen , it is n't that I would like to say a word , it is that told me to say a word , and I realise I am starting off in the right way .
29 ‘ Can I be dropped off at the airport ? ’ she was glad to ask as the signs came up .
30 Yes , and this is why I want to look at this week at a glance diary , so that you will go away and I want you to fill this in as I 'm filling in on the board , you 'll go away with an idea what a diary , sorry , spit there , ha , erm , of what a diary will look like roughly , so that you know what your diary should look like every week .
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