Example sentences of "i am " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
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| 1 | Cliff said , ‘ I am pleased to support ACET in the world they are doing . |
| 2 | I have far fewer friends and I am partially sighted , which makes me a lot more vulnerable ; but whatever happens physically , I have always said that it was what happened mentally that mattered . |
| 3 | ‘ I am delighted to support ACET 's developing international AIDS programme . |
| 4 | I have far few friends and I am partially sighted , which makes me a lot more vulnerable ; but whatever happens physically , I have always said that it was what happened mentally that mattered . |
| 5 | I am asked if I can be on standby if transport is needed ? |
| 6 | CAN I REFER TO ACET EVEN IF I AM USING OTHER SERVICES ? |
| 7 | I am pleased to report further extensions of home care over the last year to meet the growing needs in Glasgow and also to cover a greater area of the South Coast and the East Midlands . |
| 8 | In recognition of the importance of our work , I am pleased to report that our Central Government grant was increased last year to £140,00 with guaranteed funding for the next three years . |
| 9 | I am exhausted … |
| 10 | I am unable even to say my prayers upright . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ … suddenly I became free by some secret action , and now I am so happy I found your letter concerning my person . |
| 12 | I am thankful and happy that there was a strange and foreign soul caring about the destiny of a political prisoner in East Germany … when we passed the border last night , I just cried . ’ |
| 13 | I am afraid that by taking the extraordinary measure of stapling this report ‘ because some of the contents are so disturbing ’ , Amnesty has again given credence to the belief that recent torture in Kuwait has been more terrible than in any other part of the world , whereas the repugnant patterns of pain-infliction described are all too familiar from Iran , from Myanmar , Amin 's Uganda , a South America , South Africa etc . |
| 14 | I am writing to you about the case of Im Su-Kyong , who was arrested for ten years for attending a peace march from North Korea to South Korea . |
| 15 | Can you see the point I am trying to make ? |
| 16 | I am thirteen years old , and if ten years of my youth were taken over by four plain walls and nothing to do , I know how I would feel . |
| 17 | Please , I am begging you , let her free . |
| 18 | I am writing as I 'm puzzled as to why you have released Kim Hyun-hui who planted a bomb on a plane and killed 115 people but have imprisoned a girl for taking part in a peace march . |
| 19 | I am obliged to use the awkward and inadequate word ‘ Art-history ’ for it . |
| 20 | I am grateful , and can only show my gratitude by giving them the text to criticise under more agreeable conditions . |
| 21 | I am sure , however , that it plays an important role . ’ |
| 22 | I know exactly who I am and where I stand in the world . |
| 23 | I am not confident that either book may be said to be well-written ; that question , too , could be thought to arise . |
| 24 | The expression I am quoting is uttered by Dyer , and it is an expression which Ackroyd is given to using in his books . |
| 25 | It was published in America in 1974 , translated by Peter Kussi , who has revised his translation for the new edition of 1986 which I am discussing here . |
| 26 | As for that business of going to the police , I am sorry I mentioned it . |
| 27 | The journalists to whom I am referring can more solemnly be said to be practising a modern art of indirection , of the unintelligible and the interminable . |
| 28 | I am not sure how much work these last words are doing , and if there is tautology here , it is compounded by what follows . |
| 29 | Those who pursue comparisons of the kind I am referring to are likely to be impressed by the staying-power of a literary preoccupation to which a variety of temperaments and compulsions has been attracted , and could well be inclined to believe that Pechorin 's duel and indifference may have been among the precedents that weighed , a century later , with a woman bent on contriving her appointment with destiny . |
| 30 | In the novels I am thinking of he attributes certain ideas to certain characters and utters them in the prevailing manner of the novel , while also submitting them to question within it . |