Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [prep] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To come somewhere like this would have been better , somewhere where I had to be in at a certain time , where I could n't have certain people come in . |
| 2 | " The American South where I come from is mighty proud of its good manners , messieurs , " said the senator , flashing them a smile of exaggerated charm . |
| 3 | that I know of are definitely millionaires . |
| 4 | ‘ Now Bathsheba , ’ he said , laughing , ‘ you know very well that I had to be very careful , as a single man working for you , a good-looking young woman . |
| 5 | It was the person , the personality that I grew to be really good friends with , that I have now grown to love . ’ |
| 6 | It was a measure of my despair that I dared to be so disdainful . |
| 7 | ‘ The point is that I want to be near you . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It 's not that I want to be away from here , ’ Eve said earnestly . |
| 9 | As much as I hate comparative reviews — I can never really justify deifying one package at the expense of several other perfectly good packages — WSWIN has facilities that I find to be very attractive and useful . |
| 10 | From the tarn , I followed my nose down to a cairn that stands on the shoulder above Deepdale Side where the view down Deepdale into Dentdale was so good that I sat and looked at it for a good half-hour until the thought that I needed to be home by late afternoon pushed me on down to the green lane of the old Craven Way . |
| 11 | I also felt that I wanted to be apart from the routine of normal home life with the washing , cooking and to think about . |
| 12 | I ca n't prove anything and I still do n't understand it all , but I know , and I know that I have to be there , have to get to Strathspeld . |
| 13 | And er so I shot back to the phone , tried a second partner finally the third partner in the solicitors firm that I deal with was there . |
| 14 | Yes indeed er because we had an agreement and er w the men that I worked beside were quite prepared to honour an agreement once it was established . |
| 15 | The firm that I worked from were n't too bad . |
| 16 | The lights I work under can get really hot and tend to dry it out so I have to be extra careful . |
| 17 | I 'd promised my mother I 'd buy her some new central-heating , and the only time it could be fitted was the next week , so I needed to be home for Monday when the workmen came round . |
| 18 | I also have clothes entered , so I need to be there . ’ |
| 19 | And so erm we did n't wan na put them off and I like to be here because erm Bob likes to go on the Moor as well , so we shall go out on the Moor with the dog a couple of times |
| 20 | But when it suits them they choose not to be seen and seen you know sort of divide and rule tactics of seen as different entities really and I mean to be how dare and one one comment was how dare these men gang up against us . |
| 21 | Unfortunately the powerful television lights kept melting the glue , and in spite of extra large dollops of the stuff , the G from ‘ Winning ’ fell off every night and I had to be up a ladder fixing it back again at six the next morning . |
| 22 | We had an afternoon and evening once a week ; and I had to be in at nine , not a minute later . |
| 23 | I could see Malta spread out like a map 15,000 feet below me , and I longed to be down there — just to lie still and die peacefully . |
| 24 | In some ways I am self-sufficient , and I try to be always self-disciplined . |
| 25 | I promised to be in a certain place by this time tomorrow , and I intend to be there . |
| 26 | There was no sign of her at tea-time , and I began to be seriously worried . |
| 27 | I want workmen into that house as soon as possible , and I want to be back in it the moment it 's habitable . |
| 28 | I do have a question and , and it has n't made , that has n't made it particularly clear as to where we are , you hinted that , and I think that was also seconded here that there might now be a post of some kind to carry on for instance the thing that I 'm particularly worried about is that there 's a sort of hiatus in the heartbeat awards , which I think would be a tragedy if that happened , and I want to be absolutely sure that that is , is n't so . |
| 29 | And I want to be there to spit on him . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ It 's ten o'clock ; they 'll be back from the coach tour at two and I want to be there to meet them . |