Example sentences of "i be [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh well might have perhaps will you have a spare day No I want to go out for a meal No , but I been home but at dinner time just . |
| 2 | You are not alone as I am just as confused myself . |
| 3 | ‘ I am here because I was asked to come by Claudia . |
| 4 | ‘ I am here because I live here , but why are you here ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I am here because you have a legacy from your father . |
| 6 | I am here because you can not manage without me , and I know it . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I am here because you belong to me . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I am here because I choose to be , ’ she said sharply , despite the rapid race of her pulse . |
| 9 | What happens when I extend this approach from myself , as I am here and now , to other persons , places and times ? |
| 10 | For the chinless chap in his chalk-stripe blue suit , strolling to wherever he performs the daily ritual of being ‘ something in the City ’ , or the geezer negotiating the early morning traffic in from Romford in his late model Ford and Italian sweatshirt , their individual style says clearly : I am here and this is where I want to be , you can tell exactly what and where that is from looking at me . |
| 11 | I say I will use it while I am here and give it back when I go . |
| 12 | I am here and this husband of yours is not . |
| 13 | ‘ Fortunately I am here and therefore I can save you a trip , Bernard . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Well , now that I am here and can have the tale formally , direct from the prior , it 's for me to join him in sending word to the bishop . |
| 15 | I would n't be where I am today if I could n't hold my own in a dog-eat-dog world . |
| 16 | My peers are more tolerant , more willing to accept me for what I am rather than for what I might produce or become in the hierarchy . |
| 17 | His Ford Sierra Cosworth was taken from a hotel car park in Chester on the eve of the event and he said : ‘ I am utterly and totally hacked off . |
| 18 | I see the future , plan the Universe , save mankind ; I am utterly and completely immortal ; I am even male and female . |
| 19 | He got my eyes , not my colouring but he 's fairly blinky is n't he , watching the telly , well I am anyway and |
| 20 | Suppose that I have a sudden impulse to settle when I retire in the village where I was born ; but reality breaks in , I recognize that I had better remember it not as a nostalgic vision but as I indeed saw it before experiencing the city , admit to myself that it will have changed beyond recognition , try to anticipate living in it not as I am now but as an old man who no longer easily makes new friends , try to see myself through the villagers ' eyes as already a stranger who may no longer deserve a welcome . |
| 21 | I was a bigger rogue then than I am now but Benjamin was as different as chalk from cheese . |
| 22 | I am now considering planting another small group in one of the paddocks and have chosen a group of native hawthorn which are quickgrowing and suit any soil or position and can be trained as standard trees . |
| 23 | FORMER tennis champion Bjorn Borg — being sued for £400,000 — claimed yesterday : ‘ I am more or less bankrupt . ’ |
| 24 | I am more or less a consultant to them . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I am more and more intrigued , every minute , ’ Catherine said . |
| 26 | Instead , try ‘ I am more and more at peace with myself , or ‘ I am healthy , and becoming more and more healthy ’ . |
| 27 | But I am more and more convinced that the problem is not at heart a technical problem capable of a technical solution but a moral problem concerned with the values of our age . |
| 28 | ‘ I am more and more Christian as I walk the unchristian ways of Christendom ’ , he wrote , confessing himself ‘ a conscientious objector with a very seared conscience ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ , I seem to be saying where I am only because there is another use of ‘ Here ’ , as for example in answer to ‘ Where 's the thimble ? ’ , in which I am saying where something is . |
| 30 | The boys from the village kiss their girls when I am there because they do not care , but he only kisses them when he is being watched . |