Example sentences of "[conj] i be [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well where I was born in Needham Market |
| 2 | For some months I worked in the Information Department of the British Embassy , where I was engaged in propaganda , which included writing leaders for the Iraq Times . |
| 3 | Another officer was called , and I was carried away , with much clanking of keys , eventually to find myself in a small room , where I was dumped in a negligent way on a table . |
| 4 | He immediately took to his heels with is case of cigarettes and led me a merry dance away from the docks , through a council estate , finally finishing up on the perimeter track of Ipswich Airport where I was rescued in the nick of time by a squad car full of policemen just as I was about to be filled in by the burly seaman . |
| 5 | ‘ Peters is what they give me 'cause I were born in St Peter 's Hospital … the Old Mint … the Poorhouse . ’ |
| 6 | I should like to make it clear from the outset that I am participating in this conference not as an expert on any aspect of the teaching of languages , but rather as someone whose primary concern is with the structure of language and , more generally , the nature of cognitive processes . |
| 7 | Nadia : I am from the General Union of Palestinian Women and it 's good that I am participating in this meeting at this time because I am having major problems with the British Feminist Movement and the Western feminist line . |
| 8 | These Societies were in opposition to the differentiation and autonomization model of modernity that I am using in this paper . |
| 9 | That I am living in Britain in the first place has everything to do with the fact that I came here to start the magazine you are reading , a magazine for men . |
| 10 | Initially he is overwhelmed : ‘ I continue to have this curious sense of fiction , the feeling that I am living in a Maurice Edelman novel . |
| 11 | Lunching with Lord Dynevor , I told him of my settled feeling that I am playing in the final of the FA Cup , that there are three minutes to go and that my team is 0-4 down . |
| 12 | Now that I am working in Edinburgh you could call this brief report a ‘ Capital Update ’ ! |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | exactly , yeah and we can do that with everything , we can do that with everything , this is my perception and that 's your perception of this thing that I 'm holding in my hand , everything that we 've seen have that ability you know , we 've got the ability to do that with everything , what we need to do sometimes is walk around the issue if you like and look at it from another perspective and , and this is what we 're doing with Ethiopia , now , erm , the good section again was looking at images and particularly the fact that a lot of images are very negative and throwing an alternative view , the second section we 're looking at news coverage which is very sketchy , erm , it does n't provide a complete picture at all , and this third section well you saw what that 's about there |
| 15 | … you at the back , madam ? … can I take it , then , that I 'm heard in all parts of the house ? " |
| 16 | That I 'm organizing in that I have now done a little bit more research . |
| 17 | And it was my concern that churches should know the implication of the children act as it 's related to the life of the church that I 'm landing in front of you . |
| 18 | ‘ No , except that I 'm engaging in prurient speculation about Gooseneck and Sunil and whether they 're having an affair . |
| 19 | But I 've enjoyed being here , I hope you 've enjoyed it as much as I have , and I look forward to the next time that I 'm sitting in the hot seat ; until then , from me , goodbye . |
| 20 | I 'm therefore doubly grateful to you for giving me the chance to meet you today , and I hope that some of the contacts I might make today will stand me in good stead in the job that I 'm doing in Oxford over the next year or so . |
| 21 | I tell him I am a writer and that I was robbed in Cuzco Airport and lost camera , films and all my writing , so I have come to a tranquil place to try to remember . |
| 22 | The real mystery that I was engaged in tended to crowd the fiction out . |
| 23 | People in the street , who knew that I was engaged in negotiations , would come up to me , grab me by my lapels and say , ‘ Get an agreement , we beg you . |
| 24 | She felt that I was getting in the way . |
| 25 | It did n't matter that I was born in Baldersdale , my father was n't . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't know that I ever 'ad one , the orphanage never said I did , but they did say me birthday was December the second , and that I was born in 1889 . ’ |
| 27 | When I told them that I was born in a similar bed and had become a doctor afterwards they were more convinced . |
| 28 | This has probably something to do with the fact that I was born in Belfast and lived there for 18 years . |
| 29 | I responded as usual by smiling slightly — sufficient at least to indicate that I was participating in some way with the good-humouredness with which he was carrying on — and waited to see if my employer 's permission regarding the trip would be forthcoming . |
| 30 | 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 . ’ |