Example sentences of "i be [verb] of [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am thinking of all that walking again . |
| 2 | I am reminded of all this by a correspondent who tells me that she has had a pear tree ‘ for about 30 years and in that time , have only once had good fruit ’ . |
| 3 | Looking back at your career to , say , the last years of the Great War I am reminded of that poem quoted at the end of Pasternak 's Dr Zhivago , ‘ To live one 's life is not as easy as crossing a ploughed field' ! |
| 4 | I am reminded of another Irishman — or rather an Englishman born in Ireland — renowned for his healing hands : Valentine Great-rakes , known as ‘ the stroker ’ . |
| 5 | I am accused of that ; I am even accused of changing my hairstyle because of my attitude to local authority finance . |
| 6 | Whilst I 'm thinking of that notice the way I into the middle of the plate . |
| 7 | I 'm thinking of either three pounds a ticket you 're getting close to the price of a special chauffeur . |
| 8 | It can be I know , but I mean erm , I 'm thinking of some of my electorate , and I have n't actually had the opportunity to ask them . |
| 9 | But mainly I 'm dreaming of that loan , writing pages and pages of pros and cons , imagining what it will be like inside the loan committee . |
| 10 | I then went on to an Orion double bed , followed by a pink Passap ; I still wanted a single bed for speed — we ran a guest house and I was deprived of all knitting during the summer months . |
| 11 | I was thinking of that . |
| 12 | I was thinking of all the work I needed to do on Masquerade ; all the painstaking hours of sawing and planing and caulking and rigging . |
| 13 | I was thinking of all I could have bought for the baby with fifty pounds . |
| 14 | I was thinking of both our heads . |
| 15 | " I was thinking of some others too , " I said . |
| 16 | Actually I was thinking of some really good , funny things I could say earlier |
| 17 | While I was thinking of this , there was a murmuring in the inflamed blood vessels , a surging as healing bubbled through . |
| 18 | He says , " I can not remember a dream report which took the form , " Well , I was dreaming of such and such , but as I was dreaming this I was imagining a different scene which was completely unrelated . " " |
| 19 | I turned to Jamie and then the girl , cleared my throat and said quite clearly : ‘ I did n't know if you two ever shared or , indeed , still do share , for that matter , for all that I know , at least mutually between yourselves but at any rate not including me — the misconception I once perchanced to place upon the words contained upon yonder sign , but it is a fact that I thought the ‘ union ’ referred to in said nomenclature delineated an association of working people , and it did seem to me at the time to be quite a socialist thing for the town fathers to call a street ; it struck me that all was not yet lost as regards the prospects for a possible peace or at the very least a cease-fire in the class war if such acknowledgements of the worth of trade unions could find their way on to such a venerable and important thoroughfare 's sign , but I must admit I was disabused of this sadly over-optimistic notion when my father-God rest his sense of humour-informed me that it was the then recently confirmed union of the English and Scottish parliaments the local worthies-in common with hundreds of other town councils throughout what had until that point been an independent realm — were celebrating with such solemnity and permanence , doubtless with a view to the opportunities for profit which this early form of takeover bid offered . ’ |
| 20 | When I read Milton 's description in Paradise Lost of Satan , fallen to lie in Hell , a monstrous unimaginable bulk , I was reminded of that Odeon . |
| 21 | He seemed a little tense , and looked past me at the bedroom door ; and I was reminded of that first day . |
| 22 | ‘ I was reminded of that poltergeist in West Germany ! ’ |
| 23 | He looked after the entire film unit practically single-handed while we were filming in Tunisia and I was reminded of this again in recent months when we visited him in hospital . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Even with the bustle of oil activity , Scapa was a lonely place with an aura of sadness , forever haunted by its sad history of scuttled and torpedoed ships ; each time I passed the Royal Oak buoy on our way into Scapa Pier I was reminded of this history . |
| 26 | I was reminded of this in a recent villit , village a visit to the United Nations in New York . |
| 27 | ‘ I was reminded of this a year ago when I was spending some time with one of my sisters . |
| 28 | I was reminded of this , the other night at a little theatre , I forgotten it er , when we were watching on the point of |
| 29 | Looking at all the brightest and best on display in Birmingham , I was reminded of some comments made in the early '80s by the late Gordon Brown , then head of design for GM 's European passenger cars . |
| 30 | I was reminded of those days in the school chapel and of that battle to hold my integrity against a most well-meaning person , by my experience with the chaplain at the hospital eighteen months ago . |