Example sentences of "[conj] i [be] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edward 's ‘ forthright ’ , breathy style lends itself naturally to blues ( Mississippi Lad or I 'm not your fool any more , also featuring Waits on vocals , and the soft and low Ballad for a Bronze Beauty ) , but less well to the rest of the album , parts of which also have an oddly out of character Brazilian flavour . |
| 2 | ‘ I am off-duty , ’ said Sally-Anne awefully , ‘ and I am bound to tell you that although I am here I am not here in the sense of waiting on you . ’ |
| 3 | And although I 'm not I enjoyed the piping , I enjoyed But I was not at peace I says I says , you 've even ruined me for this . |
| 4 | ‘ My lord , I know better than any that I am not his match , ’ said Harry , stung and colouring vividly . |
| 5 | I think you need reminding that I am not your property ; never have been and never shall be ; and that you have no right at all to touch me if I do n't wish it , and none whatsoever to hurt me . |
| 6 | Now that I am here I am aware of straining towards an intensity of response that I do not feel . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , now that I am here it looks like I shall stay until things quieten down . |
| 8 | I did n't have a chance to prove that I 'm somebody as well , that I 'm not nothing . |
| 9 | He asks me what I 'm doing and who I am , and I mumble that I 'm just me and that is that . |
| 10 | It 's just that I 'm all he has . |
| 11 | The fact that I was where I was might be highly unlikely ; that did not make his being there any more likely . |
| 12 | As long as my father was alive I felt that I was not myself but his son , as I hope my son will feel for me — if I ever have a son , that is . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I mean ’ , said Stephen , ‘ that I was not myself as I am now , as I had to become . ’ |
| 14 | I suddenly realized that I was n't myself any more : I did n't give a damn whether he was wearing a tie or not . ’ |
| 15 | He had a set of photocopied notes , which implied that I was n't his first apprentice . |
| 16 | ‘ Of course , ’ she assured him cheerfully , but suddenly thought to ask , ‘ Did you tell your cousin that I was n't your friend — in the ‘ girlfriend ’ sense , I mean — by the way ? ’ |
| 17 | So I said no , so I 'd better get on with my cooking , so she said oh she said done it on pur colour co-ordinated , I 'm a bit more colour co-ordinated than that I was yesterday I had a |
| 18 | and about fifteen of the erm eight , eight , five troop chasing after me , it was like our sister troop yeah , we were , there was three troops in our squadron , eight , eight , five , eight , eight , six and eighty , eighty , seven and then there was three squadrons and a regiments , there was nine troops there , so like , if it , basically it was your troop and nobody else , but then it was your squadron and , and anybody else and then the few times that I , on regiment it was your regiment and nobody else , like , we could touch you cos your our regiment but if you try and touch us , you can get fucking hell , but it nearly always come down to the troops , and the thing is eight , eight , six , only had , the first year that I was there we 'd only had about thirty people , fourth year there had I opposed like fifty , sixty and seventy , second year we were there we had about forty- five opposed to like sixty , seventy , eighty , and the third year there we had about fifty opposed like fucking seventy , eighty and ninety in a , in a troop , so we were always well out numbered and we were by far the most outrageous |
| 19 | Have you forgotten that I was once their mother 's maid ? ’ |
| 20 | For a start , Christopher 's taller than I am so I was the fluffy one … . |
| 21 | I know people imagined I was much older than I was when they saw the first film because some newspapers referred to me as ‘ the Old Lady of the Dales ’ . |
| 22 | I do n't think I am fully recovered , and today I am no taller or heavier than I was when I was released from hospital in 1983 . |
| 23 | I do n't think it would be possible to be busier than I was when I was permanent under-secretary . |
| 24 | He added : ‘ I am no less confident of my case today than I was when I was wrongfully dismissed as chief executive on May 14 . ’ |
| 25 | I find I leave these places even more frustrated than I was when I arrived . ’ |
| 26 | I only picked the one , as ‘ … so I am really your mother [ signed ] your loving father ’ or ‘ … your loving father [ signed ] your new Auntie Dora ’ repeated ad nauseam loses its sparkle . |
| 27 | ‘ So I 'm still your number one suspect ? ’ |
| 28 | I must admit that I do not always want to go to work but once I am there I nearly always have a really good time . |
| 29 | ‘ And I am not your little friend , ’ she muttered , feeling terribly near to tears again . |
| 30 | You are not my friend and I am not your friend , but I owe you something . ’ |