Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] i [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought it over again and I have decided there must be an announcement , because it would indicate the merits of the matter and make it perfectly clear that I was in the right . ’ |
| 2 | Our recruitment to English ( and it is with English that I am in this paper principally concerned ) was again untypical . |
| 3 | And er of course as I tell you , I finished when I was thirteen years old and I was on this er bottle washing stunt and o one chap as lived next door to us , back at er at Road he got me his this job on the farm . |
| 4 | It 's interesting because I was in Nottingham a few weeks ago and actually on Nottingham market they sell a lot of goat meat |
| 5 | ‘ I was interested because I 'm in the fashion business , too . |
| 6 | I was reminded of this , fresh as I was from reading some of the slanging that made the Bermondsey bye-election so appealing , when looking at a joint release from six trades unions . |
| 7 | The workshop classes were a mixture of all grades of academy , and it was here that I found common ground absorbing my trade instruction ; and happily in this field I was able not to be as conspicuous as I was at school . |
| 8 | So she is as interested as I am in our surroundings : china cabinets full of dishes and ornaments inherited from the households of several unknown and long-dead cousins , armchairs with bloated cushions , a piano that no one has played in forty years . |
| 9 | Whilst I believed their feelings and actions were genuine , I was also aware that they were as steeped as I was in the romance of blindness : the helping hand , God 's purpose for us all . |
| 10 | Severed as I was from Father and from Helmut , living in a foreign country , was it the fear of further severance that kept me in this unequal concurrence ? |
| 11 | Fond as I was of Margaret , I could willingly have shaken her . |
| 12 | Apparently convinced that I was behind the ABC and NBC stories and the media follow-up around the world , they blew my cover in a television broadcast that also went out around the world . |
| 13 | However , conditions for the time of the year seemed favourable and I was in hopeful mood as I rowed carefully out on the meadow side to a drop-off at about 70 yards I knew to be there . |
| 14 | … In a court it would be so easy if I was on the other side to get up and say that in respect of eight of the conditions ‘ We complied and we only contravened the suspended solids condition and we 're very sorry it was 30,000 p.p.m. but you 're not gon na cane us for that are you , Mr Magistrate ? |
| 15 | ‘ You know I 'm never bored when I 'm with you . |
| 16 | Hope those who were watching the game on BBC1 were as disgusted as I was with Englands performance . |
| 17 | Avid as I am for details of Claudia 's personal life , I have lost interest in the details of my own . |
| 18 | Uncomfortable as I was in White Face 's company , there was comfort in the sense of arrival . |
| 19 | As sad as I am at being wrenched away from the telly , I am led to the bar . |
| 20 | if it 's all the fellas are in right and I 'm in here , and Shirl 's out there cooking does n't worry me and I do n't bother to it , because it 's good fun is n't it ? |
| 21 | ‘ Sorry if I was in a brown study . |
| 22 | Which I would find very trying if I was in the D S S quite honestly . |
| 23 | I could hear the rain tapping on my window and I felt very glad that I was in my dry , warm bed . |
| 24 | Now I 'm not for a mom , I 'm not for a moment suggesting that it 's something that would be picked up on a regular basis , but I think it does mean , as you rightly say , that er , if , if , if such a procedure does arise then I 'm conscious that I 'm in a one off situation , I know there 's at least one of our colleagues on our benches who has this on , with children on a more regular basis . |
| 25 | ‘ Swindon want to keep White and I 'm in no real position to offer the kind of money to make them change their mind , ’ says Rovers ' Gerry Francis . |
| 26 | ‘ It was fine while I was on weekly wages . |
| 27 | Once again , I 'm stuck , as trapped as I was in that tree — and I do n't think a well-timed lightning bolt from Lil will spring me this time . |
| 28 | The reception , a buffet , so glad you could come , yes did n't she , yes I am , O ha ha Uncle Tom 's sozzled ha ha good old Uncle Tom , accustomed as I am to public speaking , a glass of champagne cider each , I give you the Bride 's parents I My own parents looking a bit sick of all the tipsy Irish . |
| 29 | My questions are childlike but I 'm in confusion , |
| 30 | I blinked twice , not sure that I was in the right country . |