Example sentences of "and [verb] i be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could ring them up and say I 'm in touch with your competition in Portugal |
| 2 | I am writing to convey how shocked and saddened I am at the news . |
| 3 | I write this on a lovely , hot , sunny day and wishing I was on holiday . |
| 4 | ‘ I am ambitious and feel I am at the right age to go into management . |
| 5 | I had intended to emerge while Mr Cardinal was still a reasonable distance away , so that he would see me in good time and suppose I was on my way to the summerhouse , or perhaps to the gardener 's lodge . |
| 6 | I saw flood-lit spaces , heard music and felt I was in another world , somewhere in Switzerland . |
| 7 | I burst on to the pass from Jack Clarke , had a wee look and saw I was in the clear . |
| 8 | I was sixteen and thought I was in love . |
| 9 | I went on a freebie last week and think I am in love again . |
| 10 | At three in the morning I wake up with a start and think I am in a funeral parlour . |
| 11 | I 'm going to lie in bed in the darkness and the music and think I 'm with G.P. and he 's lying over there with his eyes shut and his pitted cheek and his Jew 's nose ; as if he was on his own tomb . |
| 12 | ‘ I got on to the hospital and then the local police lab and said I was from her insurance company and we operated a no pay clause if drink-driving was involved . ’ |
| 13 | Crossing again to the fireplace , I gazed at it with awe , and had I been of a religious bent I would have fallen on my knees and prayed that the water would meet Nigel 's requirements so that on winter evenings , when we were doing our Darby and Joan bit , we could sit and worship the spirit of the fire , the hearth , the very essence of our home . |
| 14 | Then she must sit in the sun before hauling it back up and altogether I was enraged and wished I was in a condition to show her how it should be done . |
| 15 | But erm yes sometimes you 'd , you 'd get there in time but you see they 'd just , I , there , there were n't the telephones about in those days so you , you , you could n't , everybody did n't have a phone , they could n't ring in an and say I 'm in labour . |