Example sentences of "be [adv] [subord] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must have been just after I left , thought Joan . |
| 2 | It must have been just before I left home in November . |
| 3 | I found out who they are just before I left to see you . |
| 4 | He might say " Things are exactly as I said they are " . |
| 5 | But they 're mostly like I say . |
| 6 | That 's what they 're like when I fetch them in , it 's not bad is it ? |
| 7 | If you 're here when I go , you will be coming . |
| 8 | If you 're here because I said certain things about you after the race , you can sod off back south right now . ’ |
| 9 | You 're here because I said you should be here . ’ |
| 10 | I have been ever since I knew I had this trouble . ’ |
| 11 | Erm I lost interest in photography f er after a while because the er the photography at the centre , there 's always been ever since I joined , there 's been six of us who had er a l a lasting thing with photography . |
| 12 | This may be so though I venture to doubt it . |
| 13 | ‘ It wo n't be long before I set out on my expedition and I do n't think he 'll be fit to run away from me . ’ |
| 14 | I paid the fourpence for two coffees , and after I had seen Clare to her train back home , went to St Andrew 's to make a few notes of plans to defend myself , for I knew it would not be long before I faced a new ‘ trial ’ — by the hospital 's board of governors . |
| 15 | I had heard about the Dog Man before on my week-long journey from Kirk Yetholm towards Edale — travellers going north had told me as I journeyed south at first that the Dog Man was only three days ahead of me , then two days ahead of me , and then the final group of walkers had told me that it would n't be long before I caught him up . |
| 16 | I 've got mine back on , but it wo n't be long when I get out the bus mind , but |
| 17 | No , I really think it might be best if I go . ’ |
| 18 | I have , therefore , taken advantage of your absence on academic business to give the matter more thought and I feel it might be best if I set out the various considerations involved in written form . |
| 19 | ‘ Mr Walker thought , as I 'd come to see you before , it would be best if I came again . |
| 20 | I think it would be best if I went somewhere else . ’ |
| 21 | And Merson revealed : ‘ The boss called me in on Monday and told me that it would be best if I played in the reserves on Tuesday rather than travel with the squad to Blackburn . |
| 22 | ‘ Then it would obviously be best if I leave you on your own until you 're in a more reasonable mood , ’ he said , walking towards the door . |
| 23 | ‘ It would probably be best if I started from square one , ’ the contact opened the proceedings by saying . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't think any sentence would really be appropriate but I ca n't bear the thought that he is going to be out one day , and that day is going to be sooner than I thought . |
| 25 | I said I 'll put my shoes back on but I do n't know what my feet will be like when I get out the bus |
| 26 | 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 |
| 27 | It might be partly because I did n't kick up a fuss when I lost the captaincy . |
| 28 | Yeah , no it would n't be tomorrow because I think my mum 's working so |
| 29 | I 'm here because I got a bum stepfather . |
| 30 | ‘ Perhaps we should encourage young novelists ’ ; ‘ the Booker Prize is a media junket ’ ; ‘ actually , I 'm here because I wrote the book ’ . |