Example sentences of "i [verb] [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I would also support Mr Potters in the addition of the under-used term would I think be beneficial to the policy . |
| 2 | and she would I think be prepared to as she 's in charge of their sort of arrangements for where they dance , er it 's easier than ne negotiating with someone who who I 've only met once er very briefly . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's a lot keener than I 'd been used to , because here you are not guaranteed a place . |
| 4 | It did n't take me long to realise it was very different from the kind of journalism I 'd been used to . |
| 5 | so it was totally different work from what I 'd been used to . |
| 6 | I borrowed one of my dad 's mail-order magazines , and , leafing through the screeds of bankrupt stock , out-of-date and obsolete machines , put together a portable package capable of holding huge chunks of typically verbose Mortonesque meanderings , and spitting them down telephone wires eight times faster than I 'd been used to . |
| 7 | You see , I 'd been accustomed to the guided progression of the last comfortable years at school . |
| 8 | It was going to help me , with what I had in mind , the fact that I 'd been able to wise him up on that . |
| 9 | If I 'd been kinder to Leon would he have done those things ? |
| 10 | I 'd been lucky to book one of the two wheelchair spaces with adjacent seats for my family for last Saturday 's final night of the spectacular Robin of Sherwood musical . |
| 11 | All the staff have remained the same , but the managers I interviewed are new to this particular store . |
| 12 | Say only that this of which I speak is pleasing to you . ’ |
| 13 | Er which er I suspect was due to the th the insufficient time to carry out the exercise . |
| 14 | Lebanese I know are close to the bad guys . |
| 15 | Lords I rise to support the Amendments move by Lord MacIntosh of Haringey which I believe are fundamental to the future policing of this country . |
| 16 | Erm we also offered everything from sort of secretarial help and er use of photocopiers and duplicators , to the tenants ' group , through to I guess being able to perhaps suggest to them who in the council it might be that they needed to speak to , or perhaps tactically how to go about achieving their particular aims . |
| 17 | There are several accounts of the events of this crucial period in the history of British ‘ race relations ’ : what follows is an attempt to highlight some of the features which I feel are pertinent to a discussion of ‘ racial problem ’ films of the era . |
| 18 | The insecurity I felt was due to my lack of true religion , and was like the small change of the exalted pessimism of our faith , the pessimism that can drive men on to do wonders . |
| 19 | Bill : I do n't know if anybody feels they have , but this is a thing which I felt was central to the gay movement of the seventies and I think I would go so far as to say that I assume that most of my close friends feel , like Mark , that it 's fine to have special relationships but it is n't fine to have ones where you are n't allowed to have anything else and also that there 's nothing more deadly to a relationship when you are trying desperately not to have it off with anybody else because you feel guilty about it . |
| 20 | Lewes has only had a mayor or two for a hundred years , and so its ceremonial is somewhat new , but one was able to draw on the traditions in places like Rye , where it goes back to the thirteenth/fourteenth centuries , and erm I used some of the phraseologies out of sixteenth century Rye documents and so on in my Lewes mayoralty on these sorts of ceremonial occasions , and introduced some of the ceremonial which I knew was authentic to mayoralties elsewhere in Sussex . |
| 21 | erm Lewes has only had a mayoralty for a hundred years , and so its ceremonial is somewhat new , but one was able to draw on the traditions in places like Rye where it goes back to the thirteenth , fourteenth centuries and erm I used some of the phraseologies out of sixteenth century Rye documents and so on in my Lewes mayoralty on these sorts of ceremonial occasions , and introduced some of the ceremonial which I knew was authentic to mayoralties elsewhere in Sussex . |
| 22 | It is all part of gathering more power , whatever may be said by the Government about his intentions int into the hands of Whitehall and into the hands of ministers who at the moment will be Conservative , but very shortly I think are likely to be Labour . |
| 23 | I enclose some information about our current exhibition , as well as preliminary information about ‘ Scotland First Portrayed ’ , which I think is likely to be of considerable interest to your members . |
| 24 | At the time , what Lissa and I did was supposed to be a trial separation . |
| 25 | Earlier in the day , I had been close to despair . |
| 26 | Unlike the more southern fulmars I had been used to seeing , which are mainly white with grey backs , these northern birds were nearly all a dark smoky grey . |
| 27 | I had been used to analysing speech — such as in a radio discussion — which ran at an average rate of 300 syllables a minute , depending of course on such variables as personality and regional accent ( for some accents are spoken much more rapidly than others ) . |
| 28 | If ever I felt I had been rude to her or disobedient , I always felt ashamed . |
| 29 | But I did n't want anyone thinking I had been unfaithful to Alan . ’ |
| 30 | I 've been good to you . ’ |