Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [adv] [conj] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am here because I was asked to come by Claudia . |
| 2 | ‘ I am here because I live here , but why are you here ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I am here because I choose to be , ’ she said sharply , despite the rapid race of her pulse . |
| 4 | I would n't be where I am today if I could n't hold my own in a dog-eat-dog world . |
| 5 | she says like er she says you know Jean she says well I just sat there and she says I 'm away and I went over she says because it was her |
| 6 | I 'm just if I can understand |
| 7 | No , I ca n't say I like any of these jobs — I do them because they 've got to be done : I 'm here and I 've got to do them ( all said in a dragging monotone ) . |
| 8 | Now I 'm here and I have a place too and nothing 's going to change that . |
| 9 | And I make sure that I 'm here and I open up for them , and I make them a cup of tea . |
| 10 | okay now I 'm here and I am not only gon na be I mean now people |
| 11 | ‘ Yes , I 'm here and I always will be . |
| 12 | I 'm not here just to be Chairman , I 'm here because I believe in things . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Perhaps we should encourage young novelists ’ ; ‘ the Booker Prize is a media junket ’ ; ‘ actually , I 'm here because I wrote the book ’ . |
| 14 | I 'm here because I got a bum stepfather . |
| 15 | Mrs Thatcher herself supported this reading : ‘ I 'm here because I believe in things — because I 'm always thinking forward ’ ( speaking on Panorama , 25 January 1988 ) . |
| 16 | And I 'm here because I work in pencil . |
| 17 | And I 'm here because I work in pencil . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , I 'm here because I want to help you … ‘ |
| 19 | I 'm here because I drew the short straw when Jan Killeen was dishing out people to chair particular interest groups in preparation for this work , and I drew the job of chairing the group on private care issues . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm here because I wanted this job . ’ |
| 21 | I 'm here because I believe that we share many objectives and because I know that there 's more that unites us than divides us . |
| 22 | I 'm here because I want to be , because I like your company , and I think we should be enjoying it . |
| 23 | Reading for our , I mean er , I supply my own car , my church has recognised that whether I 'm probably if I pay the tax and the insurance erm and I just thirty two , thirty five that 's but when I 'm in business or I 'm in provinces and I 'm allowed to pay what , ten fifteen |
| 24 | I 'm always and I was frightened so much . |
| 25 | Well if I 'm there and I 'm a guest if she cooked for her and Martin she ca n't just ignore me ! |
| 26 | I 'm , I 'm certainly as I was going to come on to explain and the way you will see ourselves working , is not people who sit in the Town Hall and just turn out reports , I mean the kind of work we do and the way we work means that were actually very much involved in the community groups , but I mean if it was , if it was thought to be an issue that we needed to have greater community involvement , i.e. to resurrecting that forum then that 's something that , you know , we may need to address , but I never saw it as operating like that anyway , I mean I saw it as it 's almost like in a cabinet of members mainly . . |
| 27 | That evening , pacing the floor of his chamber before the most able of his mormaers and his churchmen , he had said , ‘ What would I do if I were Siward and I had just lost all hope of my heirs ruling Northumbria ? |
| 28 | I mean that would have been a disaster I mean it 's only because I was upstairs and I thought oh I can smell boiling . |
| 29 | So , anyway , I must have been downstairs doing something and I do n't ne sh sh I did n't know what time this interview feller was coming only , that I was downstairs and I heard Tracey say , oh what 's his name then Mike ? |
| 30 | And I was really wrecked and I was I was n't even actually ill I just sat , well I was eventually but I sat on this wall for about four hours , yeah |