Example sentences of "[conj] i [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did so , and seeing I was of no more use , I rushed inside to awaken my older brother and sister to show them what had happened . |
| 2 | He asked for them to be clearly marked , packed in damp moss and sent to Lord Cornbury 's by Oxford Chapel , ‘ where I am to be around generally any morning before ten if you ever have time to call ’ . |
| 3 | what 's going on at the moment and where I am with it |
| 4 | Too late in the day because all the hotels are full and I end up tramping round in the dark , lugging my pack and money ( cash , a great wad of hard currency ) , nervous of the hatchet-faced youths who watch me meandering round , concentrating so intently on making it look as though I know exactly where I 'm heading that I soon have no idea where I am on the mapless streets of Algiers . |
| 5 | Every other time I 've been in somebody 's flat like this I 've known where I am by the books . ’ |
| 6 | At last , the visitor interrupts Paul 's conversation and comes to the point : ‘ You , I believe , have guessed where I 'm from . ’ |
| 7 | Where I 'm from , I should n't have to worry about a black cop beating me upside the head when he 's with his white partner , you know , and that happens a lot . ’ |
| 8 | where I 'm from ? |
| 9 | I saw some of the places that were to play an important part in the later dramas of my life : the great Clerecia church where I was to be sitting one momentous morning , and beside it the lovely Casa de las Conchas , its walls decorated with rows of carved scallop shells — seven rows adorn the upper storeys . |
| 10 | For reasons which are too complicated to bother with , I had left Scotland , where I was for Christmas , on December 30th to go to the Isle of Wight and spend that most braw , bricht , moonlicht and Caledonian of celebrations , Hogmanay in the Deep South . |
| 11 | Julian Charley , to Edward England , my publisher , and to St. John 's College , Nottingham , where I was at that time principal , and by whose Governors I had been given study leave in order to write the book . |
| 12 | I stayed right where I was on the floor telling myself I 'd be fine in just a few minutes . |
| 13 | That was very early on in my filming if anyone had asked me I would have said ‘ I 'm always on the move , you know I never sit down in a lesson , and I do n't sit down but where I was on the move was in a very limited space so just having the camera at the back on that table , just having it still showed me so much about what was going on in the room and how you use the time … |
| 14 | And if I carry on with this relationship I shall just end up where I was in New York , miserable , unhappy , alone . |
| 15 | Cunning — she could find out where I was from the town code . |
| 16 | He demanded twice , in an extremely hoarse voice , where I was from . |
| 17 | Anyway I said oh I said you 're not expecting me , said who I was and where I was from . |
| 18 | ‘ You could have found out where I was by asking your fianc . ’ |
| 19 | I had somehow supposed her to sit in that room for ever , real only when Hugo or I were with her . |
| 20 | I 'd been having a bit of a go about putting your hand up but every time he put his hand up I 'm bending over somebody or I 'm in a different part of the room . |
| 21 | Reading for our , I mean er , I supply my own car , my church has recognised that whether I 'm probably if I pay the tax and the insurance erm and I just thirty two , thirty five that 's but when I 'm in business or I 'm in provinces and I 'm allowed to pay what , ten fifteen |
| 22 | I suppose I could have joined in except I was on the second tier of the other stand . |
| 23 | I got ta pass , 'cause I 'm in the team . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ The little one , ’ she called me , although I was at least as tall as she was . |
| 25 | Although I was at art school for four years , I was hardly ever there , I always worked at home . |
| 26 | Although I was in pain I was conscious and can remember seeing Callanish itself . |
| 27 | I vividly remember , although I was in a thoroughly sleepy condition , telling him that in my view the only proper justification for an enquiry about Mr Profumo 's personal life depended on the possibility that some act of his might have compromised security , because he obviously had information which was secret . |
| 28 | But although I was in great pain , I was desperate to know if Magwitch was safe . |
| 29 | ‘ No , it 'll be a night out I would guess , although I 'm for home myself first , to get some shuteye . |
| 30 | My one real consolation in the face of almost any betrayal or grief is that I am without doubt an extremely talented writer , come danger or candle stump . |