Example sentences of "i be [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Eventually everyone leaves the room to shower and drink coffee and do all things that people usually do after intercourse — communally in this case — and Samantha and I are left alone . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | WHAT HAPPENS IF I AM ILL , HAVE AN ACCIDENT OR I AM MADE REDUNDANT ? |
4 | Q What happens if I am ill , have an accident or I am made redundant ? |
5 | I am bent gouged pinched and tugged at , and squeezed into this funny shape . |
6 | Alas that today of all days , when there will be opportunity for further converse with him , I am laid low with this horrid malady ! ’ |
7 | I can only hope I am proved wrong : things have gone too far to turn back the tide . |
8 | If I buy a bus ticket for two persons , I am issued separate tickets . |
9 | If I buy a rail ticket for two persons , I am issued separate tickets . |
10 | I 'm made clean ! |
11 | What he actually wanted to say was , I 'm struck dumb with love . |
12 | What should we think if someone tells us : ‘ I enjoy roast potatoes , but only at meals where I 'm served boiled potatoes ? ’ |
13 | I 'm called full time Youth Evangelist and work for the Pembury Free Church . |
14 | ‘ Oh me — I 'm tickled pink . |
15 | You never quite know what they do or where they go in winter , though I 'm told Froggy had a sister in the Birmingham area . ’ |
16 | And whether the wheel is turning too fast for them to cope with it somewhere along the line they 've lost control any and there 's still I 'm told young many a time a good shop steward and a good management should be a good team together , but erm unless they can work in harmony you know it 's no good . |
17 | ‘ From what I 'm told old Sung is a docile man . |
18 | but now they 're all set up and I 'm left alone and the children , three of them , have n't got time to look after me to give me what I , what I need and especially one in the truth , that one is less getting in touch with me than the ones that told me the truth , boys ring me , twice , three times a week , Julia rings every , every night , but Ted rings twice or three times a week , three times I could go , the one |
19 | Never mind that I 'm buried alive here in this bloody fen with dour children . |
20 | I 'm considered expendable , naturally , and it would please Artai if I failed to return . ’ |
21 | Cos I 'm sat dead . |
22 | ‘ Would you chaps mind terribly if Barry and I were left alone ? ’ the other Rex asked . |
23 | I were let good . |
24 | ‘ I knew that I was playing with fire ’ , he confessed ; ‘ I ran the risk , and if I were set free I would still do the same . ’ |
25 | The first move will be to alert all my known contacts , to request that I be held incommunicado if I approach any of them … ’ |
26 | ‘ I was stripped naked and suspended on a crucifix , ’ he said . |
27 | I 'd only been there about five minutes when they came to escort me off down to Bleak House , where I was stripped naked and given a blanket and put into a cell . |
28 | It was my lunch hour and I was dressed classic BR Clerk Chic ( beer-stained jacket , tightly knotted skinny tie , crimplene shiny ass pants and shoes with animal tracks and a useful compass in the heel ) . |
29 | I was made uneasy by those parading men in smart suits and dark glasses , who appeared to be a kind of confraternity of Falangists , ardent nationalists and supporters of Franco , whose picture was everywhere . |
30 | I was made sorry for her at first , as I would be for any young girl , crippled — it is hinted by the cruelty of her husband — and a mother , but even at the beginning there is a niggling doubt that she is rather superficial and shallow . |