Example sentences of "be that i be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he seemed to think because you 'd had your stroke almost a year ago that I should be over it ; his exact words were that I was looking for sympathy . |
| 2 | ‘ The only difference between us is that I am trying to be , and you ca n't help it . ’ |
| 3 | What she wo n't want to hear is that I am cured of the madness which kept me from sleeping at night and the imagination which played havoc with my peace of mind during the day . |
| 4 | After all , one of the reasons that I 'm doing this job is that I 'm plugged into what 's going on out there . |
| 5 | I had a friend who suffered from twisted testicles so I made sure part of my sponsorship arrangement is that I 'm provided with decent shorts with inner briefs that give me support . |
| 6 | Okay , now the good news the next night is that I 'm gon na take away some of your money , and you think , oh wow he 's taking . |
| 7 | What you do n't seem to know is that I 'm working for Query and not for you . |
| 8 | The truth is that I was sent to Scotland to find out what happened , is happening and might happen . ’ |
| 9 | If I find in myself a desire for which no experience in this world can satisfy , the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world . |
| 10 | The other side of that is that I was listening to Medicine Now on Radio Four , and they 've got a device where they you actually have er an earpiece put into your ear and it clicks continuously . |
| 11 | I mean what the strange thing is that I was reading about |
| 12 | The truth is that I was suffering from insomnia : a full stomach is more conducive to sleep than is an empty one . |
| 13 | The good thing is that I was introduced to Tracey right from the start . |
| 14 | My condition for accepting the invitation to participate in a debate on IQ was that I be shown in advance any press release advertising the debate , for I feared being misrepresented . |
| 15 | The worst thing that happened to me was that I was moved to another hut on the Waaf site and found myself amongst a very superior set of girls who worked in Radar . |
| 16 | The upshot was that I was summoned by the university authorities and told that I was to be allowed to continue my studies but only under certain stringent conditions . |
| 17 | The plan was that I was to remain in England and organise the Arts Lab with Mary Finnigan and see it did n't fall apart . ’ |
| 18 | But one incident that amused me was that I was booked for a coffee commercial and the producer phoned me up the night before the session to let me know the track we were doing , because he said he wanted to get it as close to the original as he possibly could . |
| 19 | The result of this ineptitude was that I was rumbled as a single parent within days , if not hours , and subsequently approached as if I were a fatal poison masquerading as a person . |
| 20 | Uncoached I was at least able to survive a couple of rounds in the local tournaments ; a stroke of luck at this stage was that I was paired with a newcomer to the Command — a FIt Lt Reep who was in a different league to mine — and we entered for competitions and this raised my game quite a bit . |