Example sentences of "i [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 31 | The functionalist view I advocate is that mental phenomena emerge as a result of the way that the neurons etcetera are functionally organized in the brain , not as a result of the physical properties of neurons per se . |
| 32 | What I advocate is exuding an aura of femaleness . |
| 33 | Animals always came first — every book I read was about them . ’ |
| 34 | The full title was not visible but what I read was , ‘ Paint along with — ’ Whom , I have been asking myself since . |
| 35 | Well , erm I think the first novel of George Eliot that I read was Adam Bede , and I think that that 's actually quite a good starting point . |
| 36 | An example of the latter point I made is shown on pg 45 where he tells of how he came to know Eddie . |
| 37 | My colleagues were present sir and have informed me that the comment that I made is actually accurate . |
| 38 | I listened to this tale of woe and as I dug with my tiny spade , wondered what I might find , an arm or perhaps a leg , but the only discoveries that I made were small pieces of coal washed up on the beach . |
| 39 | ( With a little re-working I even found the sweaters I made were nice enough to give as Christmas presents ! ) |
| 40 | I was never popular and I had few friends , but such friendships as I made were mostly lasting . |
| 41 | The references that I made were not to Labour party documents but to papers published by the chambers of commerce . |
| 42 | In a public statement Bradley , who was liable to fines for failing to report major investments , said : " The errors I made were not deliberate . |
| 43 | I 'd love to be a record success again , but the last LP I made was so bloody personal it was ludicrous : you ca n't write songs about those you love , your children , and expect other people to buy them … |
| 44 | I know some people might think the decision I made was unpleasant and monstrous but I want to tell how I came to make the decision and the reasons behind it . |
| 45 | ‘ The biggest mistake I made was to start playing professional golf so early , ’ he explains . |
| 46 | I BELIEVE the decision I made was commonsense — the right one in the circumstances . |
| 47 | I would like to think that if Freud were alive today , he would have said the same thing , of course when Freud wrote this book in nineteen twenty one er there was no such thing as group psychotherapy it had n't been invented yet , it was to become very much after World War Two but partly existed before and perhaps it 's past its peak now , but erm it did become very much a after World War Two and the point I made was and this is really wh wh what Heather ha h has just said , that if you take Freud 's book on , on group seriously , how can you do group psychoanalysis ? |
| 48 | After the massacre , he wrote , ‘ All I regret is that any of the sept got away . ’ |
| 49 | ‘ What I regret is that we did n't force the bank into this situation 15 months ago when we first approached it over the demerger . |
| 50 | ‘ No , the only thing I regret is that I may have rushed you into something you 're already beginning to repent . |
| 51 | It means I regret is I regret and is it . |
| 52 | He admits his spell away from showbusiness was important , but adds , ‘ I regret being away , of course . |
| 53 | North Yorkshire 's interpretation I repeat is not strictly controlled means not normally be permitted . |
| 54 | I rub my face quick so she do n't see I 've been crying . |
| 55 | I see I 've been slipping up a bit . ’ |
| 56 | ‘ I can see I 've been displaced in Leo 's affections . ’ |
| 57 | He said , well you see I 've been smoking . |
| 58 | See I 've been coming for years with mouth ulcers . |
| 59 | See I 've been getting a kind of rash on my face |
| 60 | You see I 've been entrusted with the task of getting him safely back to the Reich and I 've little more than three weeks to do it in . ’ |