Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] i be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had asked the driver to wait two minutes whilst he saw whether or not I was through customs and in the foyer . |
| 2 | Or maybe I am in the perfect position to write it , as I have spent the last week slumped on the sofa , watching the war . |
| 3 | There was some fault on the phone here or else I was on the phone myself talking to Father Rooney about the Station . ’ |
| 4 | One day I was called back from my duties of covering the coroner 's and juvenile courts and told that henceforth I was to be the paper 's " walking reporter " tramping the Dales and picking up whatever stories I could find . |
| 5 | It had however taken me 40 gallons to fly from Duxford down to Stansted and I felt that somehow I was on a loser here ! |
| 6 | Naturally , those poor , deluded idiots thought that somehow I was in the know as to what was happening . |
| 7 | They were just o ordinary little places , all the places that ever I was in , they were Yes the the kitchen and that had we 'd rafters and then there was er the fireplace a just er generally just like , were two stone and there 's ribs across . |
| 8 | Then I thought that maybe I was at fault , that I had borne a grudge too long . |
| 9 | I turn to the next document on the tag and suddenly I am in a quite different and entirely familiar landscape of calm , double-spaced , wide-margined , cleanly typed Government A4 . |
| 10 | The thing that made me a little envious was this girl — she 's his assistant on this particular film — ringing up , and there was a slight chance they would be going to Switzerland that day , and suddenly I was in there again and I thought how exciting it all was and how nice it would be to go off filming again . |
| 11 | Govt. defeated and so I am to be P.M. The load will be heavy and I am so much alone . |
| 12 | I own a Charvel myself and so I 'm at home almost immediately with the feel of this one . |
| 13 | I am a regular visitor to Goodison and so I 'm in a position to assess the situation . |
| 14 | I graduated in 1967 and then I did postgraduate work till 1969 and so I was in a student milieu until a year before the gay movement started . |
| 15 | He replied : ‘ I do n't agree with it , I did n't agree with it in the '80s , I was a minority view in the '80s , I am not a minority view now — and anyway I am in a better position to expound my views . ’ |
| 16 | His heavily built wife showed me my room and soon I was on the end of a bench in the small dark restaurant , supping soup with the few day-trippers ; listening to their stories . |
| 17 | I 've been trying to liaise with the Save our Forests which is and forestry privatization and technically I 'm on the committee . |
| 18 | But rigging and sails did , and once I was on deck , coiling and sorting the ropes and making notes of what I would need , I barely noticed anything else , time slipping by and my mind so concentrated on the job that I barely felt the wind force rising , small frozen particles of snow driving almost horizontally . |
| 19 | Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that last Friday , on a delegation to Kiev , I took the opportunity — as I had always promised myself that I would if ever I were in Kiev — to visit Babi Yar , just outside the city limits , where in two years of Nazi terror and occupation tens of thousands of people were murdered ? |
| 20 | Halfway up the hill I turn off , and now I am on my own . |
| 21 | I served an apprenticeship , worked hard and now I am in the wrong and it is not my fault . |
| 22 | And go for eight , fine and now I 'm on a level playing field . |
| 23 | I 've come straight from the hospital , and now I 'm on my way to St Mary 's , where I 'm due at five . |
| 24 | And now I 'm on a late report . |
| 25 | He hounds me into scoring positions and now I 'm in the England squad . |
| 26 | Some of the theories would have made Balzac blush , but they finally decided I 'd been sleeping with Laura , her husband had beaten me up in a dark alley , and now I was on my way to kill him . |
| 27 | For example , how does it happen that I married a good Catholic at seventeen and here I am at thirty-something , childless ? |
| 28 | The Government buildings along the Embankment drop away behind us , and here I am in another world , another life . |
| 29 | It was a Friday evening and untypically I was in London — and even more untypically I was baby-sitting . |
| 30 | ‘ Some say I 'm a dour type of person , and maybe I am at times , but nothing means more to me than winning . |