Example sentences of "i be a " in BNC.
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| 1 | People like me are a menace to the AA men , calling them out on Sunday afternoon to rebuild engines that we idly began to dismantle on Sunday morning . |
| 2 | Because these criteria it seems to me are a means to an end , for us to decide upon an appropriate general location . |
| 3 | Had I been a little less successful in catching chub or , worse , met with a complete blank , then Heaven knows if I would have continued specimen hunting . |
| 4 | Had I been a few feet nearer the bomb I should have been blown to pieces — had I been a few feet further away I should have been cut to pieces by shrapnel . |
| 5 | Had I been a few feet nearer the bomb I should have been blown to pieces — had I been a few feet further away I should have been cut to pieces by shrapnel . |
| 6 | But wait a minute , I thought , had n't I been a woman out there ? |
| 7 | Had I been a father in my early twenties I would have been dreadful because there were so many things I still wanted to do . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I been a bartender all my life . ’ |
| 9 | without it , if , I been a why bigger lorry what |
| 10 | Mark Calcavecchia and I are a good team ; we can relax with each other — that 's the key . " |
| 11 | Does my writing this down now mean that I am a little bit reconciled to myself ? |
| 12 | As you may have gathered , I am a pond fanatic ! |
| 13 | I am a jealous , possessive sodden Kleenex style bitch when in love . |
| 14 | I am a wild-flying pigeon . ’ |
| 15 | Thus completed , he signed the form ‘ accepting and submitting himself to the statutes , rules , regulations and ordinances of McGill University and of the Faculty or Faculties in which I am registered , and to any amendments thereto which may be made while I am a student of the university and I promise to observe the same . ’ |
| 16 | I am a great fan of Monica Seles but I can not believe all the letters about these two players . |
| 17 | I am a nurse working shifts and enjoyed , and needed , early nights and morning lie-ins . |
| 18 | I am a character . ’ |
| 19 | By drawing a rectangle round ‘ it 's a chronicle ’ Dostoevsky suggests a framed narrative for The Possessed like the story found by the frame narrator among a deceased ex-convict 's effects in The House of the Dead ; and by declaring ‘ I am a character ’ ( kharakter : a person , not a literary personazh ) he puts himself inside that frame . |
| 20 | On the other hand this skulking novelist told himself in a notebook , as we recall , ‘ I am a character ’ ; and there is every reason why the narrating ‘ I ’ of The Possessed should be perfectly visible . |
| 21 | I am a firm believer in extending higher education and in preserving the humanities , by all possible means , against technologico-Benthamite attacks . |
| 22 | ‘ I am a servant of the Prime Minister . |
| 23 | He admits : ‘ I am a Catholic of a very marginal , demythologised kind … |
| 24 | I AM a romantic . |
| 25 | Mr Buchan is also a conoisseur of socialist folk-singing : he made it clear that he would find it hard to set the policy review to traditional music : ‘ I am a primeval socialist . ’ |
| 26 | I was banned , however , not because I am a convicted criminal , I think — like the unfortunate Simon Hayward — but because I wanted to wear a false nose out of consideration for the feeling of my associate , Mark Chapman , who , as I explained last week , has just had an inch and a half lopped off his . |
| 27 | ‘ I am a Spurs supporter and my kids would never forgive me . ’ |
| 28 | I am a singer . |
| 29 | ‘ But I am a bit disappointed that while we 've been appealing for new directors nobody from the town has come forward . ’ |
| 30 | In recent months their flagrantly communal slogans ( 'Say it with pride — I am a Hindu' ) have propelled them to significant gains in municipal and other elections . |