Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] i [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At last , the visitor interrupts Paul 's conversation and comes to the point : ‘ You , I believe , have guessed where I 'm from . ’ |
| 2 | Surrounded as I was by supremely negative images of homosexuality such as ‘ the man in the dirty mac living out a lonely old age in a filthy garret ’ , I still felt that there was for me a clear choice between expressing or repressing my homosexual desire . |
| 3 | From the time that my colleagues in the House of Commons did me the honour of electing me to be their leader I have felt that I was in the position of a trustee ; and even throughout the war the one thing that I have aimed at constantly has been to preserve . |
| 4 | They were written while I was on a train and probably in a bad mood . |
| 5 | Held through the night , he wrote the following morning : ‘ I am treated like I was at home . |
| 6 | oh I 'd of died if I was in there |
| 7 | ‘ It 's partly related to my theory of human behaviour which I 've had since I was at Fettes in Edinburgh , ’ he said . |
| 8 | Everybody knew and said I should leave , but it 's not so easy to leave your home and all the furniture I 'd bought when I was on the railway . |
| 9 | I was told when I was in my regiment I was told my country , it was n't my country that was what I was told . |
| 10 | Just as I am drawing his attention to the point and beginning what I know will be a long and wearying discussion , Mirsal , who has been fighting the cabman about his fare outside , appears and lets loose such a torrent of thumbnail word portraits of the clerk 's family that , used as I am to his powers in this respect , I am struck dumb with admiration . |
| 11 | When my youngest brother was born and I was between eight and nine years old , my troubles began in earnest . |
| 12 | I mean I 've , I 've smoked cos I was in France with him last year erm sitting at the erm dinner table smoking a cigar with him and my uncle |
| 13 | She and Dad had made it clear that ‘ young men ’ would not be countenanced until I was at least sixteen . |
| 14 | So I 'm not limited because I 'm by the lowest common denominator of other gateway approaches . |
| 15 | Every other time I 've been in somebody 's flat like this I 've known where I am by the books . ’ |
| 16 | Nobody had , I 'd done it myself , you see and I did n't want to know and er I did n't want anybody to know you see but er , he was marvellous I know and I know there was something else tiny came away it 'd only be about six or eight weeks but it was , I think anyway what was lost was found and I was in hospital for about fourteen days . |
| 17 | Bush had been inaugurated while I was in Australia , and when I came home , I started getting all the bizarre ideas that maybe I 'd had enough of tennis . |
| 18 | Up to a certain point I was succeeding in both roles , driven as I was towards success by anxiety and the fear of failure . |
| 19 | Now I had always supposed I had travelled very little , restricted as I am by my responsibilities in the house , but of course , over time , one does make various excursions for one professional reason or another , and it would seem I have become much more acquainted with those neighbouring districts than I had realized . |
| 20 | I have heard Shirai and Höll do nothing better than their reading of this cycle which , sated though I am through repeated hearing of the work , I found gripping from start to finish . |
| 21 | As it turned out , fate had decreed that I was to be the one who would change this unhappy state of affairs . |
| 22 | They 'll think you 've run and I 'm after you . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I have not eaten and I am in rags and all I ask is a share of your fire before I am turned out into the cold night again … |
| 24 | ‘ The evening 's half gone and I 'm on schedule , so I sha n't bother working tonight . ’ |
| 25 | I write with a strong sense of the necessity of continuing our — talk , and without premeditation , under the impression that you were indeed as much struck as I was by our quite extraordinary to ask if it would be possible for me to call on you , perhaps one day next week . |
| 26 | As you listen to Dr Carrington 's wife and doctors , you may be struck as I was by their candour and sincerity . |
| 27 | She has from day one showed her disdain for me as one opposed to hypocrisy and her type of esoteric or pseudo intellectuality — being satisfied as I am with intelligence , integrity and interest ( ! ) — and has manifestly made it clear she overtly dislikes me because I wo n't be moulded or do what she wants or tells me — she suffers the matriarch/ bossy syndrome ( childhood nickname I am told was ) and does not like the fact I am utterly my own forthright person who spoils the incestuous sibling smythe-watson quartet which she ‘ ran ’ so self-interestedly for so long … |
| 28 | ‘ I 've told you ; I knew nothing about what had happened until I was at work next morning and one of your policemen came with the news . ’ |
| 29 | Then my reel screamed and I was into something much bigger . |
| 30 | Be assured that I am with you . |