Example sentences of "and i am [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We require a proper deterrent and I am increasingly of the view that we need some threat of pain and humiliation to purge people of the pseudo-macho personalities that cause the problem . |
| 2 | She said : ‘ Everybody else says they are very pleased to be here in fact I am very relieved to be here because another TV station was at my home in Dumfriesshire this morning to try to speak to me and I am thankfully in London so I missed them . ’ |
| 3 | And it does seem to me that erm the minute you suggest to a Parish Council who has already complained about illegal encampments on roadsides and laybys that there is a good site in their patch , there is an immediate reaction , and I am thoroughly convinced that this reaction is based on a fear that is actually based on ignorance , and that we have to remember that travellers of any description — and I do n't categorise them like Peter does — travellers of any description are human beings . |
| 4 | Probably the most interesting object is the open cluster NGC 2244 , round the star 12 Monocerotis ( 5.8 ) ; it is quite easy to locate with binoculars , and I am rather surprised that it is not included in the Messier list . |
| 5 | Er , I I I thought it extremely discourteous of Councillor instead of responding to my letter he goes to the press and starts complaining , this does n't seem to me the way to sort out the problem at all and I am equally aware of the problem er and if it only helps me get some facts together then it it will strengthen my arm getting things sorted out . |
| 6 | By my husband 's will , and the custom of his house , all his manor and lands go to his nephew and heir , and I am without purpose in the household longer . |
| 7 | I 'll tell you , Crilly , about my first trip to Scotland and the men in chip shops who call you ‘ Hen ’ and the lads wearing green Celtic scarves at lunchtime and broad pointy-horned cattle and graveyards macabre with the tilting of tombstones caked with moss and weeds , sheep grazing and weaving amongst them , and a coastal fishing town in Harris where a night sky shimmers only to itself and I am without friends from , the real world and I listen only for the sound of the tin whistle while the boats rock gently in the jetty and the sky rages from beige to black and craggy mountains dart until forever and a fisherman stands , stunning and alone , strong and unnamed , and leads me slowly into that everchanging sea . |
| 8 | I think it will succeed although it will take ages , for he is fearfully shy , and I am likewise affected . |
| 9 | That conflict of views has its fierce advocates on both sides , and I am neither well informed nor dispassionate enough to comment on it From the presumed perspective of John Howard , the Ellis-Beto administrations overall emerge with credit , because they did insist on the publication of official rules , and that was a big breakthrough . |
| 10 | I try to sleep but I can only doze , and I am frequently aware of a pulse , a rattle , a rustiness rippling through me . |
| 11 | I look through the window — the streets , the sky the colour of wet sugar — and I am simply stumped by this , dumbfounded , non-plussed . |
| 12 | Well , gentlemen — the evening 's business is now concluded , and I am hereby closing the meeting . ’ |
| 13 | I am very sorry to trouble you with this and I am most grateful to you for having returned the documents so promptly . |
| 14 | I hardly ever come into this room , and I am most particular . |
| 15 | In all logic we have already sold the pass by having separate bands for Scotland and Wales , and I am most worried about the current matter . |
| 16 | When I walk on it the whole thing starts to move and I am soon covered in the grey dust I am stirring up ; it fills my nostrils and triggers a memory that links the smell with rock climbing . |
| 17 | A local man offers to ferry me across the fjord and I am soon on the way to Holt . |
| 18 | In this very clean transfer the orchestral and organ sound has real power , and I am particularly impressed by some mighty timpani playing in the Finale , with good hard sticks . |
| 19 | I would welcome any information on this and I am particularly interested in hearing from anyone who has experience of facilitating or participating in any such evaluation . |
| 20 | This gives the authors opportunity to make alterations and additions to the text , and I am particularly grateful to have this opportunity to revise I Believe in the Holy Spirit . |
| 21 | My Board colleagues and I are appreciative of all that has been achieved by Management and Staff during the past twelve months and I am immensely grateful to the Deputy Chairman and all Members of the Board for their unfailing support and co-operation during an eventful and , I believe , very successful year of operations . |
| 22 | ‘ All right , I have an overdraft — but who does n't these days — and I am well within the agreed limit . |
| 23 | On the other hand ( there is always another hand in these matters ) I would not claim that , because I could explicate my own novel line by line , that is all it could mean , and I am well aware of the danger of inhibiting the interpretive freedom of the reader by a premature display of my own , as it were , ‘ authorised ’ interpretation . |
| 24 | My crew were never aware of my lapse and I am just as ashamed to tell this story today as I would had I told it 45 years ago . |
| 25 | ‘ They gave me no specific reason why they stopped me and I am just worried they could stop any innocent people , ’ he said . |
| 26 | And I am also thinking of the identification of Rahila Khan — a novelist supposedly Asian and female — as an Anglican vicar ; and of the attempt to thwart a biography by the Englishman Ian Hamilton of the American J. D. Salinger , whose novels tell the story of his life , but who does not want anyone else to do so , preferring to keep his facts to himself . |
| 27 | My approach and preparation are slower and I am also a different person mentally . |
| 28 | I do keep an eye on my colour changer to make sure that it is picking up each colour as it should and I am also very careful to check that I have no ‘ lazy ’ or less than perfect needles as picking up dropped stitches is not a pleasant job . |
| 29 | ‘ Yes , sir , I 'm the chambermaid and I am also responsible for the linen cupboard . ’ |
| 30 | This time it was a police sergeant , and when Joe went upstairs the sergeant said : " I am looking for Wg Cdr Mahaddie , and I am also looking for one of my constables , " Joe foolishly replied : We might have a wing commander here but we do n't have your constable . " |