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

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1 I mean are you learning these as they are or I mean
2 I am that I am .
3 Oh , how glad I am that I did n't die .
4 But first I want to say how sorry I am that I had to send Dawn to you instead of coming myself as I promised .
5 Yes I am 'cause I want some .
6 I wish I had been 'cause I took CSEs at school and I got sort of fairly average grades ( 1 in music ; 2 in English ; 3 in history , general science and woodwork ) .
7 It seemed to me that it was wanting in every detail , but the objective facts are that I was five feet two and a half , weighed eight stone five , and had my fair share of acne .
8 The positive things that have come out of the divorce are that I have a much better relationship with my children and I can read a book in bed and not have a jealous partner by my side trying to prevent me .
9 The facts are that I asked Warren Beatty not to cast Sean Young in the role for Dick Tracy . ’
10 ‘ But probably the chances are that I will be looking for some sort of change , ’ he added .
11 I walked fast , to keep warm , so it may have been that I was a little above myself by the time I reached the school where the classes were held , because that night , try as I would , I could not believe anything our teacher was telling us .
12 He 's always been surrounded by people who think everything else he does is marvellous , but one of the points of our relationship has been that I 've always criticised his work , and for me those double portraits of the Seventies came perilously close to Photo-Realism . ’
13 ‘ One of my problems over the last few years has been that I 'm amazingly optimistic — really stupid in fact !
14 I have had lots of tanks almost from the beginning , and have probably worked out most of my fantasies regarding sizes from 15″ × 10″ × 10″ up to 48″ × 18″ × 18″ — the only problem has been that I always want to keep more species than I have room for .
15 The thing is , it 's been so long since I 've been that I have n't got a clue how much tickets are likely to be .
16 She 's like you when you 're when I 'm on the phone .
17 Those I 'm not interested in producing reports and publications out of evaluation studies , I 'm interested in affecting the situation and affecting it to the mutual satisfaction of the people involved in it , and in fact when we 're when I 'm working with people on an evaluation , or discussing evaluation in general , one of the major items of our discussion always is how can you consult other people , how can you get them involved ?
18 ‘ They 're as I want them .
19 and the other may or may not of been like I said just the fact I 'm shaking your hand , weapon he goes and does a frenzy test but the evidence on those three were , was n't very , was n't very conclusive and it
20 I 've been cos I have n't been to the R A F club for ages there .
21 Yeah , I have been cos I 've been bored really so all I do is study .
22 the other day but yeah it must have been cos I have n't seen any papers since Monday how many thousands do n't pay on not paying their television licence .
23 Perhaps in his way he was the sort of cricketer I would like to have been if I had possessed the talent .
24 ‘ You , that have not been near me all day , and would n't have been if I was dying ! ’
25 I do n't know what would have been if I 'd stayed .
26 How much better life would have been if I 'd known about that or used it ?
27 What use would it have been if I had gone into the lounge without something like that ?
28 I often wondered how different my life might have been if I had had a wife and family to come home to all these years .
29 Do you know what the total price of the tickets would have been if I had to pay for this , one hundred and ten pounds
30 It would have been if I 'd have carried on .
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