Example sentences of "[adj] i [verb] [be] [art] " in BNC.

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1 I 'm sorry , I 'm sorry I 've been a bit steady getting there , but I think it 's an important issue to tackle that , quality is horses for courses and we have to accept the fact that we 're gon na get prestige type jobs and quick slick jobs , especially in the beginning of March every year .
2 Sorry I 've been a time .
3 Sorry I 've been a while , I went into mum 's to take her shopping in and Uncle Philip was there .
4 How vain I feel is an attempt for me with all my weight of immorality and worry and dull ( not bad ) health to sweeten you who are so pure and without care and of bright health .
5 My Lords er the the er th the point r really abou about all this I think is a fairly , a fairly simple one that we are agreed I think in general , that police authorities are better if they are smaller and the real point that is concerning er N
6 I plead with our commissioners and their counterparts in the Roman Catholic side to concentrate on this issue and not to dally for this I believe is the golden key to that greater , completer , richer and more effective church that is surely coming under God .
7 Linear I think is the
8 He does n't talk to me much now because I 'm afraid I 've been the one who 's been tipping him out of the church when he 's smoking .
9 You missed a couple off that proactive I think is the buzz word it 's called seem less production so .
10 I 've written a great many books for children and some for adults about children ( several from both categories have caused a wave of national commotion ) , broadcasted , televised , been translated into every language including some I had n't realised existed — and what about a bizarre unidentifiable Japanese edition that is put out as one of my books , that for all I know is a codebook for terrorists or drug-runners !
11 All I know is the reports which the lads filed .
12 All I know is the name Raphael . ’
13 All I know is the bastard things are good enough not to need much repair and there 's no real second-hand market in them .
14 All I took was the three pesos for the room .
15 so then the very time he went in I you know , took did n't say anything at all I thought was the best thing .
16 All I had was a testimonial from Harold Fletcher of G.C.H.Q. , which was no testimonial in that it gave a potential employer absolutely no enlightenment because it could not do so :
17 All I had was a promise of a pair of boots from Jack Riordon , a quartermaster in the Green Howards Regiment .
18 I did n't have a protective big brother : all I had was a small sister .
19 Last night , , this Sunday , all I had was a banana at lunchtime , had n't eaten all day or drunk , I had two glasses of water
20 All I had were a few personal belongings and a little money , and these I gave to Jean-Claude with all my heart .
21 All I knew were the half-truths and lies that children were told in those days .
22 I began to feel myself being pulled further and further under the water , I screamed and swore but nobody seemed to hear or believe me and then my head went under and all I remember is a feeling of despair as I squeezed the tree trunk only to find that it simply crumbled in my hands .
23 And all I remember is the then afterward .
24 All I remember was a huge bang and it careering into us .
25 ALL I remember was the sudden transition from abseiling , to being battered and pummelled and thrown violently down the mountain .
26 ‘ Hulme ’ it said — though all I saw was a rubbled
27 But as usual all I saw was the hairy form bounding away out of sight round the corner of the house .
28 At the end of the alley I paused , waiting , but all I saw was the end of a nose which quietly withdrew as I stood there .
29 All I received was a dry little bow in return .
30 All I heard was a crash as the lorry hit me .
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