Example sentences of "[that] [conj] i [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My problem is that although I am only 24 , I have noticeable grey hairs in my fringe . |
| 2 | ‘ I told you , Murphy , that although I am immensely grateful to you for helping me to repair the shed to make a hen house and for finding me the things I need , these are my hens and I shall look after them . |
| 3 | ‘ I am off-duty , ’ said Sally-Anne awefully , ‘ and I am bound to tell you that although I am here I am not here in the sense of waiting on you . ’ |
| 4 | I am sensible , indeed one of my first bosses at Js remarked that although I am not qualified in anything , I had common sense which was worth a great deal more to him . |
| 5 | ‘ It was several months before the truth finally dawned on me that although I was being entirely faithful to her she had no inhibitions about sleeping with other men for kicks . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You will remember that although I was born a vicar 's daughter , I have seen quite a different level of life since then . |
| 7 | Justification by faith means that once I am accepted I can begin to live with myself . |
| 8 | All I know is that once I was not , and then you thought me , and then I was . |
| 9 | and I should warn you that once I was asked to go to a , a series of lectures in a certain cathedral on the seven deadly sins , because the Canon who invited me said he wanted a married man who was good on lust ! |
| 10 | Merchanting er , is the buying and selling of materials not the production of materials , and erm , I was probably the first person from this area , in the leather trade , to go to China and we started to do quite a large business with China , so that immediately I was on my own , the first big operation I took was to go to China and make very substantial purchases of pigskin leather . |
| 11 | I 'm glad I 'm glad he said that cos I 'm having a bit of a problem on flights for the summer we want more capacity than |
| 12 | yeah and like learning my Romeo and Ju I think I might actually sit down on Sunday and learn that cos I 'm gon na be at home but I , it 's quite good I 'll , I 'll see Foxy when I get back in the evening because parents have got ta come back for the parents ' meeting . |
| 13 | I am deeply grateful to my parents for the fact that until I was twelve years old and started at the grammar school , I was completely unaware of class distinctions . |
| 14 | Of course , you may retort , as did Mr Graham whenever I expounded such a line during those enjoyable discussions by the fire , that if I am correct in what I am saying , one could recognize a great butler as such only after one had seen him perform under some severe test . |
| 15 | I feel that if I am not with her I will be making a great mistake , missing a real opportunity . |
| 16 | I have this strong fear that if I am just myself , I 'm going to be dull . |
| 17 | He said : ‘ I realise I have been the bane of certain UKCC officers ’ lives and I hope that if I am elected I will continue to act as a grain of sand in the oyster . |
| 18 | If and in so far as there are any presumptions which assist in my conclusions ( and I instinctively dislike introducing presumptions in reaching a decision of fact as crucial as this ) , the presumption that a state of affairs continues until the evidence suggests that it no longer pertains is more to the point than the submission of Mr. Levy that the sanctity of life is so vital an interest to protect that if I am in any doubt that should take precedence . |
| 19 | ‘ I can assure you , ’ he told Tom Driberg , ‘ that if I was left as free a hand in French Indochina and the Netherlands East Indies as I was left in Burma , I could solve both these problems by the same methods ; though it is heartbreaking to have to leave the political control to other nations when we are really in military control . ’ |
| 20 | By the age of 23 , I 'd starred in a one-man show on Broadway and when the play closed I confronted the truth that if I was n't the star of a play I could n't feed myself . |
| 21 | ‘ I said that if I was turfed out by the trade union vote I would see Neil Kinnock and we would then both issue a statement afterwards , ’ he said . |
| 22 | ‘ The table I write on , I say , exists , that is , I see and feel it ; and if I were out of my study I should say it existed , meaning thereby that if I was in my study I might perceive it . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I realise that if I was to move to South Africa I would be living a completely different existence . |
| 24 | At one time I imagined that if I was n't obsessed with food and controlling my weight , if I did n't have a head stuffed full of calorie charts , I would be empty , have nothing to think about , nothing to fill up my life . |
| 25 | I knew that if I was with prostitutes it would be very difficult for me to get into the drug community and be accepted . ’ |
| 26 | Well , I figured that if I was going to have to stick to 55mph all the way to Boston and back , I might as well make the most of it and see as much of the countryside as possible . |
| 27 | The man came back to the telephone and said that if I was Linford Christie I was to go in and see them . |
| 28 | But then a god-like creature appeared , and I protested to him — her ? — that if I was a monster , then monsters were GOOD creatures — I was good , truly I was — if only someone would kiss me like in fairytales . |
| 29 | ‘ I realised that if I was going to switch guitars , I wanted something that had some kind of improvement , rather than just being more or less the same . |
| 30 | ‘ I just thought Britain was getting like a treadmill , and that if I was on the spot in the States I 'd be able to chivvy them around a bit more . |