Example sentences of "[conj] i [be] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time of Chamberlain 's appointment he had written to his mother : ‘ I am pretty certain that I shall be left where I am which is what I wanted , for the only promotion I should care about would be the Exchequer itself which would never be given to a minister of only two years ' experience . |
| 2 | I long for my canvas and easel where I am my own master and the world is my own . ’ |
| 3 | I had n't bothered with landing lights and I was n't sure , any longer , where I was I only knew I had to keep climbing and that somewhere at the top was relief and safety . |
| 4 | They keep questioning me , always asking where I was what I did why I did it , did all of them where I was who I was with who am I trying to kid why do n't I just admit I did it well if I did n't do all these things , who did ? |
| 5 | I thought of Compton Mackenzie 's brave words at a Nomads ' Club dinner where I was his guest about the mystical experience of people loving their countrymen through loving their country and , by re-creating themselves , re-creating their nation . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've had a little help from Barry Humphries in this , and I hope I 've paid him due credit , thought he did start that nasty rumour that he was me or I was him . |
| 7 | I would sink down into a velvet void so entire and impenetrable that whether it was I or I was it , became moot . |
| 8 | Although I am myself very much in favour of people going to the theatre and reading books it is very useful for my research for me to play devil 's advocate on these activities and to ask ‘ Why should people go to the theatre ? ’ and ‘ Why should people read books ? ’ |
| 9 | I propose to devote a whole chapter to so-called ‘ association copies ’ , partly for the selfish reason that I am myself devoted to them and partly because , looking at them as objectively as I can , they seem to me to offer one of the most satisfying branches of book-collecting , especially to anyone with the slightest sense of history . |
| 10 | That I am what I am . |
| 11 | So often , in all this , I have felt that I am nothing . |
| 12 | I know that I am a thing made of metal and plastic , but also that I am something which lives inside that metal and plastic . |
| 13 | But this does n't mean that I am anything less than an enthusiastic supporter of Scottish rugby . |
| 14 | Tolonen 's appointment as General would certainly help in that regard , but I must also show them that I am my own man , not merely my father 's shadow . |
| 15 | ‘ You have to remember , Dorothy , that I am your friend . |
| 16 | Stephanie , who on screen proved she was Queen Bitch , turned on Caulfield , sharpened her acting talons and told him , ‘ Not only am I going to prove in front of the camera that I am your mother , but I 'm also the person who will knock you into shape . ’ |
| 17 | Well may I forget that I am your servant when you forget what belongs to a master . |
| 18 | ‘ You seem to forget that I am your skivvy , Dr Neil , not a fine lady to be cosseted . ’ |
| 19 | Do n't have to talk about an just a good chat you know just I do n't want to I do n't want to talk about good people or all about that I do n't want to talk about that I want to talk I want to talk to that person out there who will feel now that it is them that I am I am appealing to I am appealing I now . |
| 20 | I take it that I do n't like modern art and yet I can imagine that while being the same person that I am I might have liked modern art . |
| 21 | And what I want to do is , as the moment where I 'm going in and teaching in the area that I am I do n't mind the learning support bit , I do n't mind the fact that the chil er the , the , yeah , yeah |
| 22 | That I am he |
| 23 | I did n't have a chance to prove that I 'm somebody as well , that I 'm not nothing . |
| 24 | It 's more that I 'm his son . |
| 25 | He said that you 'll say that I 'm his sister . |
| 26 | I said that I 'm he says er I said to her Dave here told me I should jump you ! |
| 27 | I I really know I mean it it 's not that I 'm I 'm no where near like I was before , I know because I was You know reservoir treatment before , but er |
| 28 | That I 'm I 'm almost convinced . |
| 29 | And er and she said he enjoys it and he goes to playgroup I think he must go to Dennington playgroup cos he 's going to Dennington school , and he enjoys sitting down and being , likes looking at books and he 's started writing and she said actually she said I 'm really panicking because I 'm frightened that I might be teaching him wrong and that I 'm I said well why do n't you pop in and have a word at the school ? |
| 30 | Yeah , but I 'm finding this I 'm doing this patterns thing and it 's all about transformations and that , and I , and there 's so much gobbledegook with it that I 'm I 'm ge I 'm getting lost my mind is getting lost in the gobbledegook Cos I know what |