Example sentences of "[verb] i be [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
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| 1 | ‘ They must think I 'm on the way out . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Why do you think I was in the Mafia ? ’ |
| 3 | You 'd think I was round the twist if I told you . |
| 4 | ‘ I THOUGHT I was still standing and then I realised I was on the floor . ’ |
| 5 | No , I I mean I was on the phone and th , there was a knock at the door and this woman came round and said she was from from the |
| 6 | I mean I was at the party but I did n't see anything suspicious . ’ |
| 7 | She just had to turn out , and there was nothing coming down , foot down , opened up , got I was at the top of the hill and she was nowhere in sight . |
| 8 | Anyway I smiled and I wheedled and he let me be without the gag and he let me look round . |
| 9 | ‘ How did you know I was at the Holiday Inn ? ’ |
| 10 | But I do know I was in the presence of a very dangerous man . ’ |
| 11 | How did you know I was in the garden ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I would do a work-out on the pitch before the match but when the games starts I 'm on the sidelines , ’ he says . |
| 13 | ‘ Say I 'm from the Ministry of Justice . ’ |
| 14 | I found I was outside the tent , standing up with my jacket clutched to me , the better to see them . |
| 15 | When I was at school and I got a row , my mother and father would assume I was in the wrong . |
| 16 | Then at the bottom of the page erm , he says I am in the history department and he says I shall probably tell you several more times and indeed he does in the play . |
| 17 | Stewart from Tamworth says I 'm on the dole and have to pay maintenance , Prince Charles should be doing the same . |
| 18 | When they were privatised I was on the Opposition Front Bench and did the job so well that I am no longer there . |
| 19 | We started accumulating works of art and people just assumed I was in the business . |
| 20 | Nobody even noticed I was in the room ! |
| 21 | When Adrian writes ‘ Nobody even noticed I was in the room ! ’ with its exclamation mark of outrage at the end , part of us says ‘ Of course they did n't notice . |
| 22 | you 've got ta think er think , it was like erm one of the guys was saying oh I 've got a real problem getting the names , I said well how do you ask and he said well look I 'm in the people business John but I do n't suppose you know anybody do you |
| 23 | ‘ And you do n't believe I 'm after the Marc Alexander Vila millions any longer , do you ? ’ |
| 24 | Ca n't you see I 'm on the level ? |
| 25 | This will be , do n't you see I 'm in the process of answering a letter to Regional Railways , on the whole finances of er Leeds North Western , and I needed to know which number you 'd actually |
| 26 | You may not believe this , but though Richard and I have now known each other for eighteen years on and off , the first time he kissed me was in the car-park last Thursday . ’ |
| 27 | I can not say how touched I am at the warmth of the reception you have arranged for me . ’ |
| 28 | I am writing to convey how shocked and saddened I am at the news . |
| 29 | But I remember I was on the way into Howard 's bungalow , and Bogie was coming out , having just seen my screen test , and he said , ‘ We 're going to have a lot of fun together . ’ |
| 30 | I ca n't actually recall all the numbers , but I remember I was in the States at one point and I took the album over and tried to sell it to a record company . |