Example sentences of "i be [verb] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly no American text of the sort I am discussing was ever written for black people — no more than Uncle Tom 's Cabin was written for Uncle Tom to read or be persuaded by . |
| 2 | We did , of course , over the years of working closely together come to have some very frank exchanges , but the afternoon I am recalling was still early in our relationship and I can not see even Miss Kenton having been so forward . |
| 3 | She has from day one showed her disdain for me as one opposed to hypocrisy and her type of esoteric or pseudo intellectuality — being satisfied as I am with intelligence , integrity and interest ( ! ) — and has manifestly made it clear she overtly dislikes me because I wo n't be moulded or do what she wants or tells me — she suffers the matriarch/ bossy syndrome ( childhood nickname I am told was ) and does not like the fact I am utterly my own forthright person who spoils the incestuous sibling smythe-watson quartet which she ‘ ran ’ so self-interestedly for so long … |
| 4 | This I am told was publicly declared at Redruth market last Friday . |
| 5 | I had Stuart about 3.55 a.m. which I 'm told was n't bad for my first child . |
| 6 | Well no , no what I 'm saying was , the fifteen seaters here you see but I ca n't , I sha n't be put the petrol in for the both shall I ? clean tomorrow night . |
| 7 | I do not mean it in any ideological sense or historical sense or to be provocative but it 's very , it 's with very deep feelings that I speak to you today because you may not understand it but for me , after thirty three years in exile I was able to return to South Africa in nineteen ninety one and one of the first activities to which I was invited was the annual meeting of Cosatu And so when we say comrades in that sense , and thank you as comrades we mean it as comrades in arms . |
| 8 | The yarn I was using was cotton , a double knitting weight and not the best for cabling at any time and I did need to have cables , since I had sketched them into my design . |
| 9 | The mosquito net I was using was less than perfect and my limbs touched the net at night , so the mosquitoes lined up on the net and bit me through it . |
| 10 | One of the hypotheses I was considering was that during REM sleep ( and therefore during REM sleep dreams ) the entire memory system is accessible — none of the inhibitions present during wakeful life are active , and new memories can be fitted in to the appropriate cognitive structures during REM sleep . |
| 11 | What I was experiencing was an islander 's version of the tea-ceremony and its ritual . |
| 12 | I attempted desperately to convince myself that what I was experiencing was just a particularly cruel and hateful dream concocted by some part of my mind determined to exact due penalty from my conscience for my having behaved with such despicable lack of grace during the holidays … but failed utterly ; my sub-conscious ' stock of nightmare-paradigms includes nothing so banally twisted as Gav . |
| 13 | This was all the more so , since part of the problem with which I was faced was due , as I recognized , to lack of forethought on my side , though it had been complicated by a stroke of ill-luck . |
| 14 | The year I was born was an eventful one — Hitler came to power , the Loch Ness Monster was first sighted , and the film King Kong was made . |
| 15 | As a result of 400 years of Portuguese rule , the state of Goa is quite unlike the rest of India , and the house where I was dining was quite unlike any equivalent in Bihar or Madya Pradesh . |
| 16 | What I was seeing was surely the opposite of what was actually happening . |
| 17 | When I looked in the mirror and told myself , first , ‘ that ca n't be me ’ , and later , ‘ that wo n't be me ’ , what I was seeing was a woman . |
| 18 | Possibly what I was seeing was not Birmingham but our urban and industrial civilisation . |
| 19 | The first task I was given was to bathe an elderly spinster . |
| 20 | Well I suppose a very junior clerk , the first job I was given was , well it 's unheard of in this day and age but what they had was what they call a bundi clock and there every driver and conductor had got a key that was inserted in this clock and on it was his personal number , well when he reported for duty , he inserted this key into the clock , turned the handle and stamped on to a piece of paper , a roll of paper , his number and the time he reported and the next day it was my job to go through and record from this piece of paper how many minutes they were late f reporting for duty and if they erm were more than , I think about three or four minutes we had to send them a memo telling them , that 's how things were in those days that people were , they toed the line or else . |
| 21 | I was told that the new drug I was given was better than the one I had been previously taking and I was not warned about any side effects or told not to get pregnant . |
| 22 | I was told that the new drug I was given was better than the one I had been previously taking and I was not warned about any side effects or told not to get pregnant . |
| 23 | I was learning was how to feel less obsessed with controlling my eating and my body , and a little more in control of my life . |
| 24 | ‘ And I suppose you 're going to tell me that the manner in which I was dismissed was standard procedure ? ’ |
| 25 | Now what I was thinking was erm you know , what I wondered was , shall we do er a circular game and , get yourselves into a circle quickly |
| 26 | What I was thinking was … ’ |
| 27 | ‘ What I was thinking was , why should I do anything ? ’ said Constance . |
| 28 | If , I think if that 's the one I was thinking was mm |
| 29 | And I suppose what I was thinking was that when he 's worked till five or six he was doing it every day , but he has n't . |
| 30 | I know you 'll think I 've got no end of a cheek , but what I was hoping was that you 'd ring Rosemary for me and , if her parents were n't about , pass the phone over to me . ’ |