Example sentences of "i be [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am also assuming that you will be with us on Thursday 8 and Friday 9 June . |
| 2 | ‘ I am just hoping and praying he is not going to be used as a human shield . |
| 3 | I am not saying that unpleasantly : I am just recognising that there is a philosophical divide between us . |
| 4 | I am just saying that we have no other alternative . |
| 5 | ‘ I am here to listen and learn , my Lord Chairman , ’ she said in her clear and authoritative voice . |
| 6 | ‘ I am here to ensure that the laws of the land are obeyed . ’ |
| 7 | I am immensely gratified that those who participate in the activities of co-operation between the RUC and Garda Siochana say that the quality of co-operation is at its highest point for 30 years . |
| 8 | Large numbers leave school without being able to read or write properly , as many employers will testify , and as I am regularly reminded when younger people come to my constituency surgery and are unable to write out their names and addresses . |
| 9 | I am reliably assured that King 's College Chapel in Cambridge , which has stood as steady as a rock for the past 450 years , could never be built today because the design would never be accepted under the safety limits of the building regulations ! |
| 10 | Navy blue high-heeled shoes and earrings completed the ensemble and I am reliably informed that the skirt was the ‘ new length ’ , i.e. above the knee . |
| 11 | I am reliably informed that the mighty Australian earns 10 million dollars a year and that while he chooses to live in America , he buys his snooker cue and table in England because the English , apparently , still produce the best in that line . |
| 12 | ‘ And I am reliably informed that makes him dependable , trustworthy — and loyal unto death ! ’ |
| 13 | I AM reliably told that the AUSTRALIAN RUGBY UNION has eventually accepted the tour itinerary of Ireland and Wales as initially suggested . |
| 14 | Now , I am sadly lacking when it comes to corresponding , but that time I did manage to write and thank her , adding that she would always be welcome to come and call if she ever was in the area . |
| 15 | I am repeatedly told that all the fuss is being caused by a vociferous minority of licensees . |
| 16 | If you have gained the impression that you are dealing with a balding manic-depressive axe-wielding lunatic , then I must hasten to add that I am generally regarded as a bit eccentric but quite harmless by my neighbours ! |
| 17 | I am simply denying that God ( whatever we may mean by God ) could be of such a kind that God could intervene in human history , or be revealed through particular events in history , or through a particular person , in a way in which God is not potentially present to us in and through all acts and persons . |
| 18 | I am simply arguing that Brooke-Rose 's analyses point toward her later use of what she herself describes as ‘ metaphor ’ at the level of discourse . |
| 19 | I bear this in mind for my next visit and reflect that I am already learning and making mental notes about this hitherto unfished — by me at any rate — stretch of river . |
| 20 | I think you will destroy them ; you are a ruthless woman ; how ruthless I am yet to know and am just beginning to discern . |
| 21 | I am neither condoning nor criticising all these changes but it is vital that we do something to counteract this decrease in activity . |
| 22 | I am equally persuaded that the development of certain ‘ genres ’ of art ( the drama with the ancient Greeks , or the novel , with Dostoyevsky or Joyce ) have opened up possibilities which certainly did not exist earlier . |
| 23 | ‘ As of Friday last , I am without house or home — and I never felt better . ’ |
| 24 | I am not alleging that they are mechanically unsafe , but when people go to parties or dances they find that some of the buses are not clean and up to the standard that they had come to expect when buses were under local authority control . |
| 25 | I am not lost and so I have lost . |
| 26 | I am not spreading or sagging , the glow of an early sun tan had probably removed a year or two and I 've discovered that lipstick does wonders , but there could have been little doubt in his mind that I was closer in age to his mother than to him . |
| 27 | I am not urging that all observation statements should be discarded because they are fallible . |
| 28 | Do n't misunderstand me , I am not implying that she should be working … |
| 29 | I am not implying that there is communication between friends on a supernormal , still less a supernatural , plane , though I would not exclude it : there is just enough evidence for telepathy to explain certain experiences that most of us have had , or are convinced that we have had , once or twice . |
| 30 | I am not demanding that every subject which has a technical vocabulary or which employs concepts other than those employed by common sense should be rendered simple , and fit for consumption by every man or woman in the street . |