Example sentences of "[prep] be [conj] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | and the other may or may not of been like I said just the fact I 'm shaking your hand , weapon he goes and does a frenzy test but the evidence on those three were , was n't very , was n't very conclusive and it |
| 2 | What I am most conscious of is that I have been regarded as a controversial figure : until the age of sixty I was seen either as a subversive or as an enfant terrible . |
| 3 | I am obsessed by Giles ; all I can think of is whether I shall see him again , and when . |
| 4 | All I could think of was that I knew that a Lee Metford was the forerunner of the Lee Enfield .303 rifle and almost became standard issue to the British army before WW1 . |
| 5 | ‘ One thing I 've not been happy with is that I 've played so well during the practices , and whenever I step onto the court for a match there 's a bit missing from what I can do . |
| 6 | About the only practical thing I came up with was that I probably ought to start smoking again . |
| 7 | they 'd got ta be as I could n't go to them |
| 8 | As Carmel finished the 3s , she came to me and whispered : ‘ I think I can see what the 5s are going to be before I do it ’ , and she explained her prediction . |
| 9 | I wanted it to be that I had n't really been that big before I left — in other words , prove them wrong . |
| 10 | ‘ I imagine so ; there was certainly a big turnover … perhaps the answer to that question ought to be that I do not know . |
| 11 | So then I decided I would like to be that I knew there was a job going on the electricians , so I thought well I 'll I 'll go in for the electrical side . |
| 12 | He 's not the player he used to be but I suppose you could say the same about me . ’ |
| 13 | I doubt it actually , I think they , it ought to be but I do n't think erm the people appointing are likely to look outside the immediate environs , and |
| 14 | It used to be but I think it 's an old |
| 15 | That 's how I used to be until I had my brain overhaused last year . |
| 16 | Or it used to be until I got that letter . |
| 17 | I says no I ca n't , he says it 's not very far , I said it 's not the distance that bothers me it 's the fact that you want us to sit there till eleven o'clock at night and not get paid for it , he says yeah but if you want to say something , I says I 'd say something if I thought we 'd be backed on it , but we 're not , oh I 'm not going anywhere to be if I 'm not being paid |
| 18 | I realise now that this is how I wanted things to be when I was a small girl and came home from school . |
| 19 | I should be quite content , I thought , to live here for ever , smelling the cooking and the lavatory and the dust , looking forward to my two slices of bread at lunch or tea and my Red Cross stew at supper , thinking about all the books I am going to read and how nice it is going to be when I can speak German and Russian fluently ; I only want to be allowed to live , and enjoy the sun when it shines , and wait for it when it goes behind a cloud . |
| 20 | Barry , 52 , said : ‘ I learned which way up the flag 's supposed to be when I was a Scout and I always check whenever I see it displayed . ’ |
| 21 | It would have to be when I was at school and we broke into the tuck shop . |
| 22 | Chairman chairman there seem to be when I looked at it there seem to a number of headings here that I could n't account for and I 've asked the chair of the finance committee , she could n't account for them either , and I think it 's , whilst I understand the reasons for going and I 'm sure we would have approved them , I think it 's actually quite important that all these small sums , wh when you add them up over this erm over this month and you look at them , are quite large over the budget that we have have already adopted and the things that we wanted to do , and it concerns me that some of these things which are maybe very sensible , actually reduce our effectiveness of doing things that the council 's agreed that they are going to do this year and next year , the seventy six pounds here , the thirty pounds later on , fifty four pounds for large thorn plants et cetera , et cetera , and a hundred and fifty pounds over the budget on the Christmas lights . |
| 23 | Well I was expecting to be when I got there . |
| 24 | Just up there on your left it used to be when I was a young lad , with their little forecourt with a little office in the middle two petrol pumps , I always remember that |
| 25 | Oh aye , had to be because I mean you do n't stay young forever , |
| 26 | I think that people have got to turn in the other direction , and really want to be because I see in schools there are |
| 27 | So this song sort of sprang to mind and I could hear it as I wanted it to be and I could also hear a few little modifications that would suit their purposes , too . |
| 28 | It is not intended to be and I am sorry if it appears so . |
| 29 | Perhaps there used to be and I lost it . |
| 30 | This is the last place I want to be and I 'm not at all interested in your background . |