Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] i [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it or if I were to be thinking I 'd say , Is n't he . |
| 2 | what 's going on at the moment and where I am with it |
| 3 | Anyway I said oh I said you 're not expecting me , said who I was and where I was from . |
| 4 | I did so , and seeing I was of no more use , I rushed inside to awaken my older brother and sister to show them what had happened . |
| 5 | I admit that I was not on the Committee and that I am on a steeply rising part of the learning curve , but I shall reach the asymptote fairly soon . |
| 6 | The reason I am writing to Mamma is to show her that I know my duty and that I am with the deepest respect her devoted son . ’ |
| 7 | Later they told me that the examination had shown that I was not yet sixteen and that I was to be sent back on the next flight . ’ |
| 8 | By the time that was five months old , I felt that we had achieved a bit of organisation in our lives and that I was in a position to offer ‘ something back ’ to the NCT . |
| 9 | I bear you no ill will , for well I found the tables entirely turned upon me , and that I was in far ore danger from you than you were from me for I was just upon resolving to defy all the censures of the world and to make you publicly and openly my wife . " |
| 10 | The field was laid out in strips about two feet apart and only after pushing into the crop did I realize that the plants were trained up a trellis of almost invisible wires and that I was in a hop field — a ‘ beer field ’ , as Duncan would have called it . |
| 11 | And that I 'm in love with him or something ! |
| 12 | ’ — And if I am to be a great Kha-Khan , I ought to be able to recognise when I am being told the truth . ’ |
| 13 | He said : ‘ I am doing it my way and if I am to be able to beat Alain Prost I want to do it on the track by out-driving him , not by any other means . |
| 14 | ‘ My friends were n't going to take any nonsense from me and if I was at all |
| 15 | If I was not a priest and if I was in your position , I imagine I would feel the same . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's not very proper and if I were on my feet you would n't say things like that . ’ |
| 17 | And if I 'm on a prison ship at the other end of the world — because that 's where they send women , is n't it ? |
| 18 | My eyes then focus directly between the top of the windscreen and the roof , and if I 'm at the front at traffic lights , I feel like Ayrton Senna would if you blindfolded him and put him on pole position . |
| 19 | you 're responsible for mine and if I 'm at work I 'm responsible for yours , I wrote to the D H S S |
| 20 | I 've got lots of flowers in my room and if I 'm in pain , well I say , ‘ look at my lovely hyacinths ’ . |
| 21 | And because I am in the public eye it is important that I fight back , that I show the world that the police are not infallible and that the rotten apples in the barrel must be exposed . |
| 22 | Now , sweetie , get me a bit of newspaper from the box , and dump all the silver on it , and while I 'm at it , you might get the vase and candlestick from the sitting room , and I 'll do your trophy if you like . ’ |
| 23 | And while I 'm on my way all our operatives in Germany hit the streets — with copies of Tweed 's photo , and Grey 's . |
| 24 | ‘ Put mine there too , ’ she said , ‘ and while I 'm about it , anyone who would like to join our Amateur Dramatics Group is very welcome . |
| 25 | Those questions seem to me to be inexorably leading to ‘ And while I 'm about it , why do n't you clean your fingernails and wash your hair ? ’ |
| 26 | Under the bishop 's plan he and I were to change places , and while I was on furlough he was to keep both jobs going , and I would do the same on my return . |
| 27 | A m A man named Harold from , and while I was in that hospital with that bit of a gas shell , he er he g fellow came and told me there , to Boulogne that he was dead , killed . |
| 28 | I was having a War at the time — the Mussels against the Dead Flies I think it was — and while I was in the library poring over the book and trying to keep my eyes open , soaking up all those damn silly Imperial measurements , the wind would be blowing my fly armies over half the island and the sea would first sink the mussel shells in their high pools and then cover them with sand . |
| 29 | I would like to know what the charge would have been , whether it is legal to do this , and whether I am within my rights to address mail to my grandson under his old surname . |
| 30 | Tall , but not gigantic ; shorter than I am , in fact , and when I am in France I never find myself towering over people like a Gallic chieftain . |