Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [pron] be " in BNC.

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1 When I saw buildings coming up , I drove the Felder off the track behind an outcrop of rock , where I hoped it was both safe and unobtrusive for the night .
2 My son fishes at the fish farm where I know there is a responsible adult who he can ask for help if needed .
3 My son fishes quite often at the fish farm where I know there is a responsible adult who he can ask for help if needed .
4 So , but where I know it is a bit difficult with clothes because a market stall erm you do n't , you do n't normally get a chance to try the clothes on erm and you 're never absolutely sure are these clothes , is this garment going to fit or not ?
5 ‘ She 's the wife of a chap at A.W.E. , sorry , I should explain , where I live we 're right alongside the Atomic Weapons Establishment .
6 Where I live it 's like a real community black , white , half-caste .
7 Where I live there is a large Indian community , and local fishmongers often have Tilapia , and Parrotfish , as imported delicacies , although they are cheaper to ship than live fish .
8 I do not favour either approach above the other but am using each where I feel it is most illuminating .
9 Where I work there are more than 1,000 people in the building .
10 Where I think you are , where you get into problems with that , are things like , assertiveness training , negotiating , Well assertiveness training is that a competence based thing or not ?
11 I mentioned to Ewen that I still had some ( I told him 10 , but it appears to be only 8 ) copies left of GGE , and yesterday I approached Bargain Books on Princes Street , where I see they 're selling it for £6 , in the hope that I might add my copies to their stock and get a cheque for you .
12 Or I thought it was .
13 ‘ He was still nice , or I thought he was .
14 Did they di do you think they I was going to say enjoy there but I do I do n't think that 'd be the right word , but d did they like or did they prefer to work piece work or was it something that they loathed or I mean there was more money to be made at it was n't there ?
15 The main reason , main thing is presuming that there must have been refreshments for all these people , probably might have been just a buffet or cup of coffee , or I expect there was probably a lunch laid on , I want to know who footed the bill for the lunch ?
16 ‘ Norman Lamont is a good friend of the NHS and I am sure — or I think I am sure — that he will prove it , ’ Mr Clarke said .
17 I , I can remember once I , I think it was Hill , or I think it was Estate , it was quite a new estate in those , in those days when I , when I was there .
18 Yes I suppose it 's not taxpayer now , what do we call them now — poll , poll tax payers or I suppose they are still tax payers though .
19 She was strangled all right , or I suppose she was .
20 At the moment I have no plans for the future except I want what 's best for my little girl .
21 Its very 'cause I know it is when I was there oh I will be able to see it once or twice more in my life and that 's it
22 I do n't want to sound as if I have n't got sympathy with people 'cause I know it 's bloody hard , but I know a lot of blacks who use it [ blackness ] as an excuse and we 've got to be careful that we do n't use it like that .
23 It did n't seem too distressed by life in the aviary with the other birds , although I imagine it was all a bit of a come-down for this once proud and merciless hunter of the skies .
24 ‘ They are out of season and very expensive , but Alain bought them in Paris this morning , although I imagine it was one of his long-suffering secretaries who was dispatched to buy them . ’
25 But although I said I was reasonably Spartan , this bare Nissen hut and my little windy bivouac pall a bit at times .
26 As Heather was not a boy this latter did not really concern us , although I thought I was sure Blessed St John wept with the little one over the circumcision he had , of course , had himself .
27 Platt , who has yet to make his Italian League debut for Juventus , said : ‘ My nose has been X-rayed and confirmed as broken , although I thought I was fit enough to play today .
28 He was our biggest danger in the end , although I thought it was going to be Tom 's four-ball partner Bert Yancey who might prove the biggest threat .
29 Although I know there are those who work for different ends from most of us in this House , yet there are many in all ranks and all parties who will re-echo my prayer : ‘ Give peace in our time , O Lord . ’
30 I have done the route a dozen or more times since that distant autumn , and although I know it is ‘ easy ’ I have never set off across that huge ceiling without a feeling of apprehension .
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