Example sentences of "be [conj] i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But first I want to say how sorry I am that I had to send Dawn to you instead of coming myself as I promised . |
| 2 | Oh , how glad I am that I did n't die . |
| 3 | I wish I had been 'cause I took CSEs at school and I got sort of fairly average grades ( 1 in music ; 2 in English ; 3 in history , general science and woodwork ) . |
| 4 | The facts are that I asked Warren Beatty not to cast Sean Young in the role for Dick Tracy . ’ |
| 5 | and the other may or may not of been like I said just the fact I 'm shaking your hand , weapon he goes and does a frenzy test but the evidence on those three were , was n't very , was n't very conclusive and it |
| 6 | I do n't know what would have been if I 'd stayed . |
| 7 | How much better life would have been if I 'd known about that or used it ? |
| 8 | Perhaps in his way he was the sort of cricketer I would like to have been if I had possessed the talent . |
| 9 | What use would it have been if I had gone into the lounge without something like that ? |
| 10 | I often wondered how different my life might have been if I had had a wife and family to come home to all these years . |
| 11 | Do you know what the total price of the tickets would have been if I had to pay for this , one hundred and ten pounds |
| 12 | I soon realised that not everyone was as naive as I had been and I fell out with Kate and Alison . |
| 13 | Well , so there you are and I told them , he he said that he wanted erm a urine sample you see and so of course when the nurse come after he 'd gone , later and I kept waiting and I thought to myself well I want to know the result ! |
| 14 | right , so I had the insurance man come up , come about my pension , he sat where you are and I sat there , he was a well to do man |
| 15 | I said if you said to me , Geoff , I want all the overtime I can get I can get the overtime I 'll go round and I 'll try and or if you say to me well I do n't want the overtime , I 'm quite happy with a flat week then I 'll know what I am but I said you change from day to day , one day you wann it , another day you do n't ! |
| 16 | I still ca n't read him ; I 'm not able to tell whether he thinks this is likely or not , whether he thinks this is evidence I 'm not his man or he still thinks I am but I had help . |
| 17 | it , it may have been because I had raised some concerns , concerning that particular er statement |
| 18 | I wanted it to be that I had n't really been that big before I left — in other words , prove them wrong . |
| 19 | ‘ So the thing that I would say , if I had to give myself a brownie point , would be that I enabled her to see that she could work actively with the situation . |
| 20 | So then I decided I would like to be that I knew there was a job going on the electricians , so I thought well I 'll I 'll go in for the electrical side . |
| 21 | yeah but I , I 'm and I sawed through the board and you ran away so fast |
| 22 | Well it 's alright as long as it does n't get to be like I said it could , these are lovely stamps you know |
| 23 | I was thinking how funny it would be if I had switched the smoked salmon for ham . |
| 24 | What would my attitude be if I had a difficult or long journey to work ? |
| 25 | Maybe I 'm being a bit more tolerant towards him than I would be if I had n't met him . |
| 26 | ‘ I would n't be if I 'd just lost twenty million , ’ Plummer said humourlessly . |
| 27 | I dared not think how he would be if I went back then so I had to go on . |
| 28 | ‘ How would it be if I returned your gift so that you can give it at the door ? ’ |
| 29 | He asked himself , I wonder what this old warrior 's reaction would be if I told him I had fallen in love with a married woman ? |
| 30 | My parents and I saw her in the school play and they thought she was so wonderful that they invited her to lunch — to make me see what I could be if I did it right . |