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

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1 ‘ Fortunately I was strong , but had I been weak , I might have given in .
2 Have I been offensive ?
3 ‘ From you have I been absent in the spring ’ .
4 But if you start making proposals to Martha Pascoe on the strength of the fortune I been good enough to share with you , you can think again , 'cos you 'll have Harry Pascoe to content with .
5 Have I been asleep under a hedge with a strange man not my husband ?
6 ‘ How long have I been asleep ? ’
7 ‘ Have I been asleep long ? ’
8 ‘ I tell yer , Joe old cock , my bleedin' trouble is that I 'm misunderstood meself , I been sufferin' misunderstandin' all me life .
9 And proud too , cos blimey , I been walking for ages and when I get back home she 'll think I been real clever to find my own way back , and I ai n't got a yellow card or nothing .
10 I been married for 11 months and my husband works away during the week so we only see each other at weekends .
11 I been flat on my back so I did n't go toilets and I 've got a sore bottom
12 At no time have I been able to see anything cither Nazi or necessarily homosexual in the listed pleasures , which are precisely of the kind which might occur in a George MacDonald fantasy .
13 Only lately , though , have I been able to get virtually one pulse through the entire work .
14 Nor have I been able to watch A Winter Too Many .
15 His twenty-one months as a prisoner of war at Karlsruhe would have been satisfactory , he later calculated , ‘ had I been able to bank them and draw them two or three weeks at a time whenever I wanted a respite from ordinary experience ’ .
16 Had I been able to come , I would have sought the union 's support our wish to see full advantage being taken in Wales of the CAP 's Agri-Environment Programme .
17 I might have broken my luck had I been able to get over the Alps on a raid to Turin on 11 June .
18 In retrospect , what I found fascinating at the time ( and this feeling has only increased with time and further thought ) was that all the crew just did what I would have told them had I been able to make contact with them .
19 have I been able to see a fight so clearly …
20 Sadly many of the views , expressed to me , have taken a negative or critical tone , and far too infrequently have I been able to pass on constructive or positive ideas and opinions .
21 She says ’ Had I been alone and not so near a phone box who is to say I would not have said yes .
22 ‘ Had I been big enough at the time , I would have beaten his ass but I was n't .
23 So your dad said well have n't I been soft ?
24 How long have I been sick ? ’
25 Not only have I been unable to identify any such ritual — it would , for instance , be incorrect to interpret the shamanistic seance as practised by the Chewong in such terms — but other practices , analogous to eskimo dog beating as presented by Briggs ( 1970 ) are equally absent .
26 ‘ Seriously , both Emma and I are thunderstruck , ’ Leo said .
27 A couple of back-row changes and a second-row change were badly needed and I are sure the humiliation against the Wallabies could have been avoided if the selectors had acted on the evidence .
28 He added : ‘ Tony and I are good friends and I wish him all the best .
29 " The Commander and I are upset , Timothy . "
30 I are necessary productive consumption , the α part of the equation ( i.e. ) are unproductive consumption .
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