Example sentences of "[pers pn] am [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Naturally I am slightly sad , mainly for Andrew Adams but also a little for myself . ’ |
| 2 | I am slightly embarrassed by this story but I fear it should be told . |
| 3 | I am slightly irritated to find myself thinking the same thought at the same point every evening , but also rather comforted . |
| 4 | I I suppose in the in the light of what 's been said I I am slightly uneasy erm particularly going back to the erm I five discussion that that we had yesterday and you you 'll be aware that part of our objection to the erm the policy put forward by the county council re related to the specific wording of the of the policy and the the flexibility available to local authorities in in terms of allocating land erm that best serves the needs of potential developers and investors . |
| 5 | ‘ I am tremendously excited about the whole project , I can see a rewarding and profitable future . |
| 6 | Erm , I am tentatively erm provisionally very hopeful , but I am fearful of a number of things , I three observations in respect , observations in respect of them . |
| 7 | Then , when I started to get into it I felt kind of holy , y'know , ‘ I 'm eating this good food ’ , but behind that was the desire continually to revert to eating junk food ( and I do ) because I am emotionally dependent on it . |
| 8 | I am strangely calm now I know my own efforts are hopeless . |
| 9 | Is the fault in her or in me , because I am strangely made , because , as Rousseau said , ‘ I am made unlike anyone I ever met ’ ? |
| 10 | And Goldberg , pushing the typewriter from him , dragging the pad towards him , Dear Harsnet , I am well aware of the fact that you have cut yourself off from all your old friends , and that you wish to have nothing more to do with them . |
| 11 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , I am well aware of the fact that for some years now you have cut yourself off from your past and not deigned to reply to the letters of your friends , or even to return their calls , taking refuge in your answering machine and pretending not to be in when they rang at the bell . |
| 12 | Now this Act will bind six thousand of us — I am not speaking in my own interest , I am well past the age — but this Act will empty the glens of the young active men — and how can they marry if they are in barracks and camps in England , or in France if you send them there — you say you will not … |
| 13 | But I am well preserved , Alida thought , turning a little to the glass , I have taken care . |
| 14 | As he said , ‘ My position and my name impose obligations on me of whose importance I am well aware . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ No , no , laddie , I am well served , I that thought just to serve my man ! |
| 16 | Think about those good points ( I am well organised ; I 'm a caring person and so on ) and give yourself as much credit as you would give someone else with those qualities ; |
| 17 | I just love sitting and reading and doing NOTHING … a huge man came here the other day and practically THREATENED me if I would n't write my life story … offered me any money I asked for … but thank God I am well off now . |
| 18 | Now I am well aware that times have changed and in these more liberal-minded days such a remark might pass with only a raised eyebrow or two , but in 1944 men did not use four-letter swear words in front of girls , be they ever so lowly — and they did n't come much more lowly than we were . |
| 19 | ‘ I am well aware that criticism is levelled at the MEP by classroom teachers who argue that too little has penetrated to the level of the teacher from the programme , ’ said Roger Conibear , director of the programme 's unit in the West Midlands . |
| 20 | I AM a fan and an observer of dogs and before the avalanche descends on me I must shout that , like Chris Joyce , our US Editor , I am well aware of the case against dogs but also know that the relationship is to human advantage rather than the other way round . |
| 21 | ‘ All right , I have an overdraft — but who does n't these days — and I am well within the agreed limit . |
| 22 | If , for example , I am engaged in reading a text on a subject in which I am well versed ( where the ideational or content schema is familiar ) , which has been written in a manner conventionally associated with writing on this subject ( where the interpersonal or formal schema is familiar ) , then I shall only need to pay attention to the linguistic signs to the extent that they key in this schematic knowledge and indicate how it is to be extended . |
| 23 | ‘ I am well acquainted with your family — ’ she told Joan ‘ — and recall most vividly the duke your father , whose soul God pardon ! ’ |
| 24 | Wadland told Northampton Crown Court : ‘ I am well aware I 've done a lot of hurt and damage . |
| 25 | ‘ Doctors said the fact that I am well built was in my favour , ’ said Ged , of Barn Hey Farm , Netherley , near Liverpool . |
| 26 | I am well aware of the GMC 's circumscribed functions in maintaining a register , and regulating the practice , of medically qualified doctors . |
| 27 | She knows that I am well aware that the 20 complaints referred to in that evidence were ‘ unsubstantiated and had not even materialised , ’ since I have covered her case in detail since the beginning . |
| 28 | I am my Father 's son — I am well treated , but out of my depth . |
| 29 | I am well aware that there are do-year-old " swingers " and that there are many " hung-up " 20-year-olds . |
| 30 | On the other hand ( there is always another hand in these matters ) I would not claim that , because I could explicate my own novel line by line , that is all it could mean , and I am well aware of the danger of inhibiting the interpretive freedom of the reader by a premature display of my own , as it were , ‘ authorised ’ interpretation . |