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

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1 Can I just go down the shops , Kelly and me are just going get something ?
2 But I want really , in conclusion , to jump straight to the central part of the poem in which the ways of God to man , got to me are most clearly justification 's most clearly involved , and that is the actual process of the fall .
3 People who think like me are simply protesting against the Government 's action in a perfectly legitimate way — we think they 're wrong to attack Egypt and we want to stop them before any further damage is done .
4 By then Keenan and me are pretty drunk ; and they keep stealing our bottle from the dressing room , so we 'd go across the street and get another jug .
5 VOTERS like me are surely one of the reasons why the Conservative Party was returned to power .
6 I notice , however , that your reasons for not sleeping with me are purely practical .
7 There is the unity of the moment : different tactile and proprioceptive sensations amount to a coherent body image ; different visual sensations cohere to a visual field ; and sensations from different modalities converge to a general sensory field , an organized moment-by-moment presence of a world , so that the feeling in my hand as I hold a stone , the sight of the sea and the sound of the seagull behind me are all not merely present but co-present .
8 By this time Keenan and me are really drunk and I said , ‘ Well , what are we waiting for ? ’ and we go over .
9 I keep in touch with some people who are still inside — most of the people that were in with me are still there .
10 The ‘ grounds ’ that most interest me are about 6in beneath those once trod by the aristocrats , so I 'm sure the snobbish doctor 's ghost will tolerate my company for an afternoon .
11 My sister and me are very close , so this woman gave me a giro to go to my sister 's — they took me to the station and put me on the train .
12 If I am dependent on you ( subordinate-boss ) , then your perceptions of me are more distorted , and vice versa .
13 Some people , it seems to me are never satisfied .
14 The hundred books on the table in front of me are so many tongs that pinch out the nerve of independent thought … one can not go one 's own way independently enough " ; and , from 1868 , a sardonic dismissal of " the philologists of our time " for " their joy at capturing worms and their indifference to the true problems , the urgent problems of life " .
15 Thursdays for me are mainly rest days .
16 I think I been here with Marie .
17 I ca n't remember if I been here before or not — streets look all different at night from how they are in the day .
18 I think I been here before , cos there 's the telly shop from last night .
19 I been here a long time .
20 Have n't I been here before ? ’
21 ‘ How long have I been here ? ’
22 I been here ages . ’
23 I 've never asked him to have I been here .
24 my Lord , this is a problem which erm your Lordship 's had submissions from both parties and of course it goes to specialist separates , first of all one identifies , one takes one and strikes out the defending clauses within the agreements that infringe article eighty five on then applies the , the test of severance to see whether the residual agreements remain or stand , but we certainly have not depleted that the entire arrangement avoid but we pleaded the restrictions are avoid , my Lord er and that 's important because it could lead to consequence and we 're pleading it that and if for example er power in the erm standard form agency agreement was rendered void because it was an unlawful restriction , it does n't mean to say that erm an agent er a name might not of instructed an agent to write business , what we 're saying is they may not have instructed him to write all of the business that he did in fact did er write for example L M X spiral and , now if , if a particular defendant can say well have I been well you know proper position that I would of been and the restrictions not been in place I would of instructed the agent to do precisely what he did , then of course he has no defence , that 's a que that 's a point , if he says well erm I , the facts suggest and established that I would never , ever have allowed the agents to underwr to write L M X spiral business and , and the only reason he was able to do that was because of the restrictions then he can escape liability for that part of the business underwritten
25 He denied angrily that he had ever sought compensation of up to £1m ‘ although this has been a very expensive operation ’ , adding : ‘ I could have proceeded had I been totally selfish for there were several options on the table , financially very attractive . ’
26 Believe me , dear readers , never before have I been as relieved , as tearfully grateful to get to the 14th song on a 14-song album .
27 Have n't you guessed , or have I been too indirect ?
28 I been there before .
29 Probably had I been there at the point of commissioning I would not have chosen that story .
30 I been there all day . ’
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