Example sentences of "i be [adv] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This makes a quirky sense to me but Mikio and I are definitely in the minority here . |
| 2 | ‘ I am not in the way of trafficking with Humans , but I know of the Gruagach , ’ said the Robemaker , standing very still . |
| 3 | ‘ I am not in the mood to play games , ’ she said with false bravado . |
| 4 | ‘ I am not in the groove at all , ’ he muttered . |
| 5 | Take Ian Woosnam , who , if I turn my notebook back a week , I find saying such things as : ‘ I am not in the groove at all . |
| 6 | ‘ I am not in the habit of holding discussions with half-naked men , ’ she said coldly . |
| 7 | ‘ I am not in the counsels of bishops and archbishops . |
| 8 | When I am not in the room with it , he wrote , it no longer exists . |
| 9 | ‘ Lord above , Mr Aycliffe , I am not in the market for a husband , you know ! |
| 10 | I am not in the business of arguing with either . |
| 11 | Boss Denis Smith , after Saturday 's 3–0 win over BIRMINGHAM , said : ‘ I am not in the business of selling my best players . ’ |
| 12 | I am not in the business of calibrating the relative evil of the atrocities carried out by the IRA , but I am conscious that the events that we have just witnessed come in the train of the attack on the remembrance day ceremony in Enniskillen four years ago , when 13 civilians were killed , and of the proxy bomb a year ago , which killed a civilian who had been tied to the driver 's seat of his vehicle . |
| 13 | But I feel that I am now in the way of bringing him to me since I have a house and am no longer in service and need only to arrange to have him brought over . |
| 14 | I sometimes think , he wrote , that if in one sense I am back in the nursery trying to make a big toy with nothing but wood and string , in another I am back in the classroom fiddling with bunsen burners while Mr Alexander walks round sniffing with his long distinguished nose in the air . |
| 15 | I am back in the hubbub , back in the queue . |
| 16 | By the time I am back in the tent I am on the borderline , cold enough to wake Tony with disjointed movements . |
| 17 | I sometimes think , he wrote , that if in one sense I am back in the nursery trying to make a big toy with nothing but wood and string , in another I am back in the classroom fiddling with bunsen burners while Mr Alexander walks round sniffing with his long distinguished nose in the air . |
| 18 | Like you , I am always in the market for information . |
| 19 | Black sportsmen presented me with vivid examples running counter to the stereotypical black youth and , as such , they lent themselves perfectly to my general purposes , for I am hopefully in the process of shattering some of the popular images of blacks . |
| 20 | So when people gather round the manger with wonder and puzzlement , I 'm over in the corner looking at the cows . |
| 21 | Well , I 've a chequered domestic history , I 'm just in the middle of a second divorce . |
| 22 | I 've done the , I 'm just in the middle of the skills one . |
| 23 | Er , well I 'm , I 'm just in the middle of , I 'm sign writing a vehicle and I 'm half way through the letters and I 've got a , I 've got ta finish that off before I can get into my stock . |
| 24 | I 'm just in the middle of reading . |
| 25 | " I 'm here in the hall , " she 'd shouted as Quentin closed the study door . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm here in the King 's name , and I want the blacksmith . ’ |
| 27 | Cos at any time I mean , if we 're here I mean there 's always someone in cos I 'm working nights so I 'm here in the days . |
| 28 | I 'm up in the clouds . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Righto , Mr Fisher , I 'll be here and if I 'm not in the kitchen take the money from the old teapot . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Well , I 'm not in the navy , ’ said Bogart , and he walked through the ship , up and down . |