Example sentences of "a way i [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a way I am just as much here then as I am here now . |
| 2 | Now , at 41 , he still insists , ‘ In a way I am an amateur — I never cooked under a chef . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ In a way I am , ’ Sophie said . |
| 4 | ‘ I was free and in a way I was happy . ’ |
| 5 | In a way I was preparing myself , ’ she says . |
| 6 | Margaret Jones : ‘ I remember David asked me to get my dressmaker to taper his trousers and before long other members of his form were also getting me to taper their trousers , so I suppose in a way I was almost helping them to rebel against Mr Frampton . ’ |
| 7 | So in a way I was the messenger ? ’ |
| 8 | I was just glad in a way I was dressing the Prime Minister and not Mrs Lawson . |
| 9 | They had spoken as if I were n't there , which in a way I was n't , as other passengers were moving round me , all asking the same questions . |
| 10 | In a way I was happy : I had achieved something , I was winning for the first time in my life , and I had a strong sense of myself as a differentiated individual . |
| 11 | Johnny Carson in America always looks comfortable and authoritative behind a desk , and in a way I was sorry we abandoned that idea . |
| 12 | I knew I would probably never see her again , and in a way I was glad . |
| 13 | In a way I was right . |
| 14 | I read Naomi Robert 's article ( Endpiece 209 ) with interest because in a way I was one of the characters in the drama she narrates . |
| 15 | In a way I was jealous — |
| 16 | She was still talking about me rather than to me , so in a way I was glad I had n't used any of my real names . |
| 17 | ‘ I suppose in a way I was testing you , ’ he explained . |
| 18 | I did n't attend the dinner , for which in a way I 'm now sorry , and Pound never forgot or forgave . |
| 19 | Eventually , the song becomes a real-time simulation of a locked groove , an out-of-control roller-coaster of dread but also of resilience : ‘ And the Mercy Seat is waiting/And I think my head is burning/And in a way I 'm yearning/To be done with all this measuring of proof/An eye for an eye/And a tooth for a tooth/And anyway I told the truth/And I 'm not afraid to die . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ We were strangers here then , and in a way I 'm a stranger here still . |
| 21 | And in a way I 'm quite glad to be outside that circuit because my existence as a an artist is in many ways more real than to be cosseted by Arts Council money . |
| 22 | And in a way I 'm even a little surprised to hear that your conscience actually bothers you . |
| 23 | She said really in a way I 'm glad . |
| 24 | but she is preoccupied at the moment with her exams and in a way I 'm glad . |
| 25 | Surely in a way I 'm answering my own point , you would have to go beyond just having a set of words on paper which says we have a major exceptions policy . |