Example sentences of "i am [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While I am about it , I had better apologise on behalf of a contributor , who was castigated by post for not looking up the meaning of a phrase that was , to him , mysterious . |
| 2 | ‘ Look Karen , no one is sorrier than I am about what happened . |
| 3 | ‘ There 's sorry I am about your mam , would have come to the funeral if I had n't had to work , mind . ’ |
| 4 | Enthusiastic as I am about Beverly Anderson , I ca n't help feeling that Book Trust 's new slogan — ‘ Get Reading ’ — is a bit inflammatory . |
| 5 | WILLIAMS : Sir , the French Telemachus , for I am about perfecting myself in the French tongue . |
| 6 | I am about his business and must accomplish it as best I may . |
| 7 | I may not be pure in heart , but , since Mike Jarvis the skateboarder went to live in Nottingham , I am about the only fourteen-year-old boy in the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist . |
| 8 | ’ The people who do it even though they can afford it are the worst , but I am far more concerned about the victims — the shops than I am about the people who carry out the crime . |
| 9 | I was slightly annoyed at Jamie saying anything , even jokingly , about me going to the toilet ; he knows how sensitive I am about it . |
| 10 | Shows you how stupid I am about , now which is the Revenge of Khan then ? |
| 11 | I am about the only person who ca n't speak Portuguese here , even knows Spanish well , and is giving his course in Spanish . |
| 12 | By the time we get to the jarv tracks I am over it , putting it down to a poor night 's sleep and a wearing day that have combined so that I am feeling the cold more than I normally do . |
| 13 | I am at her mercy at the moment though I keep her and pay her well and might look with justice for harder work from her , but when I am over my lying-in I will be behind her you can be sure . |
| 14 | Before I am over the hill . ’ |
| 15 | Nancy Wright , RAFA secretary said : ‘ I am over the moon with the news . |
| 16 | I am over here to do a job , remember ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I am over the moon with that run , ’ said the Viking Chase record-holder . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I am as I am through the choices I have made , and I will not whine at fate . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I am through it , Headmaster , ’ he said , ‘ and out the other side . ’ |
| 21 | It is not , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , that I am under any illusion on this score . |
| 22 | I am under no illusion on that score , he wrote , I am under no illusion that the big glass will in an instant blow all that away , flatten the critics against the walls , tear paintings from their places , bring the galleries tumbling to the ground . |
| 23 | I am under no illusion on that score , he wrote , I am under no illusion that the big glass will in an instant blow all that away , flatten the critics against the walls , tear paintings from their places , bring the galleries tumbling to the ground . |
| 24 | I am under no illusion as to effect , he wrote . |
| 25 | IT IS more than possible that I am missing a point , showing a lack of imagination , remaining in the Middle Ages and have my feet firmly stuck in the mud when I am under the impression they are just on the ground . |
| 26 | ‘ That is because I am under this roof . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ But I am under no pressure to sell and I have n't had a phone call for any player — Mick Quinn included . ’ |
| 28 | I am under no illusion about how difficult my presence here is for you . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Why am I so stupid ? ’ asks Lehman Brothers ' Don Young , adding when asked where he stands on the stock now , ‘ I am under water . ’ |
| 30 | I am under notice to find a suitably uplifting ending for our movie . |