Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The governing body of the agency is the board of directors consisting of eleven members , all appointed by parliament , but five of them are appointed pursuant to the recommendation of the following bodies , namely : the organizations dealing with the environment , one by the trade unions , one by the employers ' organization , one by Social Security , and one by the various organizations presently dealing with state assets . |
| 2 | These three big creatures dominate the composition , but around them are introduced small figures . |
| 3 | Again the stone walls are dark and streaked with rain and age , and along them are ranged carved figures , many badly worn and now almost unrecognizable . |
| 4 | Negative , extremist , in them are fused sectarian party orthodoxy and individual self-deliverance . |
| 5 | Eventually everyone leaves the room to shower and drink coffee and do all things that people usually do after intercourse — communally in this case — and Samantha and I are left alone . |
| 6 | Just as I am drawing his attention to the point and beginning what I know will be a long and wearying discussion , Mirsal , who has been fighting the cabman about his fare outside , appears and lets loose such a torrent of thumbnail word portraits of the clerk 's family that , used as I am to his powers in this respect , I am struck dumb with admiration . |
| 7 | WHAT HAPPENS IF I AM ILL , HAVE AN ACCIDENT OR I AM MADE REDUNDANT ? |
| 8 | Q What happens if I am ill , have an accident or I am made redundant ? |
| 9 | I am bent gouged pinched and tugged at , and squeezed into this funny shape . |
| 10 | Alas that today of all days , when there will be opportunity for further converse with him , I am laid low with this horrid malady ! ’ |
| 11 | I can only hope I am proved wrong : things have gone too far to turn back the tide . |
| 12 | If I buy a bus ticket for two persons , I am issued separate tickets . |
| 13 | If I buy a rail ticket for two persons , I am issued separate tickets . |
| 14 | I 'm made clean ! |
| 15 | What he actually wanted to say was , I 'm struck dumb with love . |
| 16 | What should we think if someone tells us : ‘ I enjoy roast potatoes , but only at meals where I 'm served boiled potatoes ? ’ |
| 17 | I 'm called full time Youth Evangelist and work for the Pembury Free Church . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh me — I 'm tickled pink . |
| 19 | You never quite know what they do or where they go in winter , though I 'm told Froggy had a sister in the Birmingham area . ’ |
| 20 | And whether the wheel is turning too fast for them to cope with it somewhere along the line they 've lost control any and there 's still I 'm told young many a time a good shop steward and a good management should be a good team together , but erm unless they can work in harmony you know it 's no good . |
| 21 | ‘ From what I 'm told old Sung is a docile man . |
| 22 | but now they 're all set up and I 'm left alone and the children , three of them , have n't got time to look after me to give me what I , what I need and especially one in the truth , that one is less getting in touch with me than the ones that told me the truth , boys ring me , twice , three times a week , Julia rings every , every night , but Ted rings twice or three times a week , three times I could go , the one |
| 23 | Never mind that I 'm buried alive here in this bloody fen with dour children . |
| 24 | I 'm considered expendable , naturally , and it would please Artai if I failed to return . ’ |
| 25 | Cos I 'm sat dead . |
| 26 | ‘ Would you chaps mind terribly if Barry and I were left alone ? ’ the other Rex asked . |
| 27 | I were let good . |
| 28 | ‘ I knew that I was playing with fire ’ , he confessed ; ‘ I ran the risk , and if I were set free I would still do the same . ’ |
| 29 | The first move will be to alert all my known contacts , to request that I be held incommunicado if I approach any of them … ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I was stripped naked and suspended on a crucifix , ’ he said . |