Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [verb] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who secure the fewest votes in each successive count are eliminated , and votes originally given to them are transferred as in a full-scale STV election . |
| 2 | I am baffled as to why ‘ New Britons ’ — particularly those ‘ too young to be yet imbued with the wisdom that comes with age ’ should be singled out . |
| 3 | The monitors alone are so loud that I am baffled as to how the crew operate without some type of semaphore system . |
| 4 | Or if you feel unappreciated by others , ‘ I am loved and of value to others . ’ |
| 5 | In some ways I am seen as beyond the pale , but it is the newer MPs who I feel most sorry for . |
| 6 | I am suggesting that within the one is the other — in some respects a Chinese Box would have provided a better diagram than a polarisation continuum , although it would have been difficult to decide which box should be on the outside . |
| 7 | I am reminded that with the literal manhole — the actual thing in the street — we can indeed walk all over it . |
| 8 | If I am forced because of this to return — what then ? |
| 9 | I am told that with good binoculars ( presumably × 12 or more ) it can be made out as an aura of soft light surrounding the cluster , but I have had no success myself . |
| 10 | I am encouraged that in the last few years the number of cyclists I see commuting to and in Edinburgh has increased . |
| 11 | ‘ Or in future I 'm hoping that on three days a week when ye feel like it . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm hoping that by tomorrow we 'll know something definite . |
| 13 | But I work closely to any budget I 'm given and in effect my service is free , because although I charge a £30 flat fee , it 's deducted when an order is placed . ’ |
| 14 | I 'm suggesting that by perhaps the eighteen twenties the congress system was becoming somewhat divisive . |
| 15 | I 'M writing because of concern about the attitudes of AI re : sexism . |
| 16 | I 'm told that in the States , the state of your nails is regarded as an indication of the state of your psyche . |
| 17 | I mean , I 'm saying that with tongue in cheek because they 've got to come to our place . |
| 18 | I 'm saying that in my experience there is too much argument and not enough discussion in processes of government generally , and I believe we would make more progress by a more discursive approach . |
| 19 | Could I make a constructive suggestion in this context of board salaries or remunerations or compensation packages or bonuses I 'm saying that in a slightly tongue in cheek way because I believe that the majority of shareholders do n't understand the differences between these concepts , as you gentlemen evidently do . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm not doing it for you , I 'm doing if for your grandmother . |
| 21 | I 'm admitting that through writing this article , the article I vowed never to write , I have missed a couple of nappy changes , and I feel so guilty about that . |
| 22 | ‘ I want really to die , and I want John Major to see I 'm dying because of his and Norman Lamont 's fault , ’ she told reporters . |
| 23 | Usually I was challenged as to why I was not reading law , which was always quoted as the ‘ proper ’ subject for a police officer . |
| 24 | I was struck as by an obscenity , and unprepared for what followed . |
| 25 | I was bamboozled as to the town 's attraction , and I still am . |
| 26 | I was writing and on the video you 're sitting there going . |
| 27 | So I mean I I was debating whether to actually send this out I might wait and see what happens . |
| 28 | I was expecting that at any minute Mum would shout down to find out what was going on but she must have been preoccupied , trying on her new frock . |
| 29 | In this year I was imprisoned and in trouble : and the clerk was negligent . |
| 30 | Since I was imprisoned because of you , it is only common human benevolence that you should help me now . |