Example sentences of "[that] i be " in BNC.

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1 All I can tell you with certainty is that I , for one , have no self , and that I am unwilling or unable to perpetrate upon myself the joke of a self .
2 You 'll guess what happened when I say that I am now commanding the Company — and in the line I had a seraphic boy-lance-corporal as my sergeant-major .
3 Besides , he wrote , now that I am at last working on the big glass and have set up the two panels and locked them into their metal frame , notions like success and failure are no longer pertinent , there is only the project and its outcome , project , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , outcome , and words like success and failure can safely be left to others , wrote Harsnet .
4 It is not , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , that I am under any illusion on this score .
5 I sometimes feel sorry , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , that I am not of their kind .
6 Only if you do that will you be able to say with confidence that I am wrong , that what I am suggesting has not yet come to pass , that there is still time .
7 Revulsion at the thought that I am responsible for it .
8 Does my writing this down now mean that I am a little bit reconciled to myself ?
9 Is the trouble at home that I am hearing of , perhaps , that someone had been — what is the expression ? — boiling the books ? ’
10 It is there that I am putting up . ’
11 The trouble is that I am not a tea-drinker , and so my plants get only the occasional treat when guests visit .
12 I said that I am lonely . ’
13 According to the kind of constructivism that I am espousing , the holism of the mental is logically and developmentally dependent upon the holism of directed action .
14 ( There are a number of control questions that I am omitting here . )
15 ( And why should n't the kind of holism that I am espousing not help to make processes such as mental imagery more intelligible to us — Piaget published a number of experiments on the development of imagery . )
16 Now that I am retired , I find I am spending more and more time on voluntary charity work , for which I am very happy to take part , and I am hoping to make a start on making small wooden articles including picture and plate frames .
17 The set that I am working with has the standard black finish , but the all-bright is available .
18 ( It may be objected that I am taking far too earnest a view of a wonderfully comic fictional character .
19 ‘ I now feel that I am back to the form I had three years ago , and after my performances in Ireland , I feel I can win the Paris-Tours classic next Saturday , ’ he said .
20 In case you think that I am advocating a policy of lunatic aggression , no , I am not .
21 He got four years and later emigrated to Australia , whereas I was fined £30 and am welcome on Wogan , except that I am not .
22 I 've told my son that I am going to get him a forged passport that will get him into the opposition penalty area .
23 Now I find that I am not given it . ’
24 I have had a religious experience — which is not to say , of course , that I am claiming a religious explanation for it .
25 Lunching with Lord Dynevor , I told him of my settled feeling that I am playing in the final of the FA Cup , that there are three minutes to go and that my team is 0-4 down .
26 Commenting on the letter to Tolba , Mr Lapointe , who has previously insisted that his actions and those of his staff are entirely correct , would only say yesterday : ‘ My comment is that I am fed up with all the garbage . ’
27 Have you never seen a Welshman eating his dinner , or do you think that I am going bomb-happy ? ’
28 ‘ Well , now that I am here it looks like I shall stay until things quieten down .
29 The civilians appeared to be very interested in the kilt that I am wearing and , of course , the pipes seem to fascinate them .
30 ‘ Well , yes , I must admit , ’ replies management , ‘ that I am making a good thing out of this , the best break we have had for years — you see , my methods of production are so cheap and efficient . ’
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