Example sentences of "[noun sg] that i [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Anorexia provided me with the illusion that I was in control , not only of my body and my own status within the community , but of that community itself and , finally , of the biological processes which others around me were powerless to influence . |
2 | If it comes to light that I was in that house with Adam and the others , he thought with cold clarity , if someone tells the papers , or the police and thence the papers , that I was there during the summer of 1976 , living there , it will be all up with me . |
3 | And er I was unmarried at that time and erm I , for a number of , well till nineteen forty was the end of nineteen forty I think , I joined up and went into the , the R A O C as it was then , it became the the side that I was in of course . |
4 | I have made it clear to the people who work there and to the management that I am against the encouragement of tobacco addiction and in favour of measures which will prevent the use of tobacco in public places . |
5 | Lest anybody should have got the idea from my August column that I was in some way in favour of four-year funding of students of architecture , let me set the record straight . |
6 | I glowed when they gave me their expert c , pinion that I was in most respects ‘ a normal young man ’ . |
7 | In the end I contacted my good friend Tom Poulton of the Tropical Marine Centre , Exeter , on the basis that I am at least a customer of his , albeit mainly for fish rather than equipment . |
8 | These were er built in between the th that long period that I was on the council . |
9 | This was a very comforting thing , although I must admit that I heard of no cases occurring in the period that I was in Mespot . |
10 | he to the managing director that I was in the office with a very serious complaint . |
11 | My father who was not conversant with your rituals , was judged by you to be common ; but you consider me to be your equal at the very moment that I am in a position to look down upon my father who was common , and to be ashamed of my grandfather who was working-class . |
12 | Perhaps it stems from a sensation that I am in some way making a prediction of awful catastrophe , and not just telling a story . |
13 | I must admit at this juncture that I 'm on Graham Taylor 's side on this one . |
14 | Oh well it was not a meeting that I was at then |
15 | At this airport the pottery was the same , but it was placed so high up the wall that I was on tiptoe and firing upwards . |
16 | Again I was making no contact with the flying control and as I did not have a WT operator I could not use my wireless set to inform the station that I was in this predicament . |
17 | ‘ I knew there were only seconds to go and could feel my strength failing with each moment , and a drifting kind of sleep coming on me which whispered , ‘ Give up , Minch , give up … ’ and it was only the knowledge that I was of Callanish , the greatest of the sites , that kept me fighting those few more seconds . |
18 | Feeling deliciously convalescent , I pottered about in pyjamas , weak yet fortified by the knowledge that I was in a sympathetic house where I could be waited on , and had no appointments of any kind . |
19 | My belief that I am in pain may be justified , perhaps , but I can hardly be said to base it on reasons , conclusive or otherwise . |
20 | I got down on my knees behind the animal with the feeling that I was on my own . |
21 | ‘ It all gives me the feeling that I 'm in completely the wrong place . |
22 | ‘ I was so far on side the decision was a joke , ’ said Hazard , adding : ‘ The TV people told me after watching a replay that I was at least two yards on side . ’ |
23 | I never gave in , but within weeks the networks were buzzing with the news that I was into censorship and as bad as Mary Whitehouse . |
24 | Now come on Stephen you were at the same debate that I was at , the housing committee . |
25 | Frances told me about their life in Cornwall and I felt for the first time in my life that I was among people of an older generation that I understood , real people . |
26 | I lay for several days in a small wooden room , convinced for some reason that I was on an ocean-going ship . |
27 | when I first came when I first came , that was the one thing that I was like that was the fact that that I might be pushed that way whereas I only |
28 | Consider the statement that I am in a jolly mood , which clearly is not one of the chosen kinds . |
29 | ‘ Anders has achieved so many of his goals this year that I was on Jamie 's side . |
30 | Erm but the first year that I was in the |