Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] i be [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | My motivations were not as clear-cut as those of any contemporary workforce , but there is no doubt in my mind that I was going on strike in the only way I knew how to , and that in this sense Szasz is right to describe anorexia nervosa as a political problem . |
| 2 | Michael is a man who knows his own mind and I was relying on him for some controversial quotes , but he surprised me by agreeing on the whole with Mr Isherwood 's choices . |
| 3 | He was practically running the department while I was working on the store for him , and he 's ready for further things than that , |
| 4 | ‘ A smalltime crook who got caught in the crossfire when I was working on a story a couple of years ago . |
| 5 | I was informed by a normally respectable member of the Gwili Board that I was wanted on the telephone in the shop . |
| 6 | I have always managed to miss the occasional pairs that nest on the Union Canal near my home and I am relying on second-hand reports when I say that the drake whistles softly to his mate who makes raucous growling noises in return . |
| 7 | Mid afternoon and I was climbing on the Ben . |
| 8 | The idea of the vats of the mind reminds me of an occasion when I was walking on the Appalachian Trail in Pennsylvania with some friends , who showed me an oak gall . |
| 9 | I met him quite by chance when I was rambling on the shore . |
| 10 | I am back in the little room at the top of the spiral staircase on Wednesday morning and I am sitting on the Squeez-Ee box , with the minute in front of me , going through the remaining contents of the Quaker Oats archive , page by dusty page . |
| 11 | Early fog had cleared and the airport manager and I were standing on the tarmac lining up the motorcade when my car phone rang . |
| 12 | I could n't kick a door if I was sat on the bloody latch so I had to do something else . ’ |
| 13 | So consequently she 's living in Bay and I 'm living on my own in up in Holyhead . |
| 14 | ‘ You saved my life when I was dying on the hillside . ’ |
| 15 | The S.S.O. was crossing Casualty yard when I was going on duty that afternoon in a flaming temper . |
| 16 | there 's something on the radio and I were commenting on it and then he all of a sudden he played it back , oh , er , it was about then probably |
| 17 | Well this particular system that I 'm working on a the moment is really unintelligent . |
| 18 | ‘ They knew I was a sniffer but I was put on a YTS placement to learn to be a carpet fitter . |
| 19 | My people , I must admit I have written to Hot Press over the past few issues but due to the fact that I am concentrating on my forthcoming solo gig in the Attic on George 's Quay on November the 6th at 9 o'clock , ( cover charge £2 ) , be there or be square etc. , the standard of my letter writing has faltered somewhat . |
| 20 | Sebastian and I had shared a house when I was lecturing on Crime and Punishment . |