Example sentences of "[adv] that i [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think perhaps that I am at least partly forgiven . ’ |
| 2 | The devil of it was the vehicle was a left-hand drive , so that I was on the side that would go over the edge first . |
| 3 | When I bought my first company and began to build up the business , I had to live in the city , so that I was at the centre of things . |
| 4 | She does n't care who I marry , only that I 'm in love . |
| 5 | It 's just that I 'm in a hurry to get away . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It is not that I am in favour of it , it is what is happening . |
| 7 | Not that I 'm in any position to pass judgement . ’ |
| 8 | Not that I 'm against paid pews for those that can afford them , but in moderation . |
| 9 | As she handed him the cup of tea her tone changed : ‘ Not that I 'm against joking , but everything in its place ; when I 'm here with Aunt Lizzie , we chaff each other , but … but not all the time . ’ |
| 10 | It 's not that I 'm against autobiographical writing I just generally do n't think it makes good , or true , fiction . |
| 11 | It 's not that I 'm against them in their place , |
| 12 | Not that I 'm against them . |
| 13 | Here I need mention only that my work at the Staff College and the Royal Military College in Baghdad put me under suspicion of espionage , and that had the pro-Nazi rebellion of Raschid Ali of May 1941 ( during which I was given protection in the American Embassy ) been successful , I should have fared badly , as it was surmised much later that I was on the rebels ' hit list . |
| 14 | ‘ We talked about it , ’ said Jenny , ‘ because I told him frankly that I was in love with Jamie , and he looked at me as if I needed my head examined ! ’ |
| 15 | And I do n't think I need point out that I am in the most awkward situation of all . |
| 16 | Besides , he wrote , now that I am at last working on the big glass and have set up the two panels and locked them into their metal frame , notions like success and failure are no longer pertinent , there is only the project and its outcome , project , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , outcome , and words like success and failure can safely be left to others , wrote Harsnet . |
| 17 | It was a fight but now that I am at college you can believe I am the happiest girl around here . |
| 18 | But I now realise that I , too , have been a whore , now that I am in love . |
| 19 | ‘ They also know now that I am in your room , señorita . |
| 20 | Now that I was in touch with Leslie again , I became very happy at Bletchley , in spite of anxiety over his safety . |
| 21 | Is she really like like isolated now that I 'm at boarding school really |
| 22 | A year or so before that I was at a conference in America where deconstruction bulked largely on the agenda . |
| 23 | Well I 've lived in quite a few places , I 've , I say , before I came here , I was at mother and baby Home , and before that I was living with friends in Liverpool , and before that I was in Nottingham at a bed and breakfast place , lodgings , and er |
| 24 | Er then of course er petrol , before that I was in the , before I started the work we used to go out delivering petrol and petrol was all done in tins , two gallon tins . |
| 25 | It 's not something I particularly thought an awful lot of until I came on crime prevention , because before that I was in police uniform with marked cars with the radio , although half the time in Harlow , the radios do n't work cos we 're getting . |
| 26 | Martha tells him often that I am in the history department as opposed to being the history department , in the sense of running a history department . |
| 27 | Paul was invited to give a series of public lectures at the school , and word got around that I was on the verge of retirement and Paul would be happy to take my place . |
| 28 | Do n't that I was over impressed with Tammy Girl , were you ? |
| 29 | " It was n't that I was in love with him , you know , " she said , from time to time , as chorus to her main argument , " it was n't as though I was in love with him , you know . " |
| 30 | I was very unhappy , because I saw then that I was on an island . |