Example sentences of "[conj] i be [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For reasons which are too complicated to bother with , I had left Scotland , where I was for Christmas , on December 30th to go to the Isle of Wight and spend that most braw , bricht , moonlicht and Caledonian of celebrations , Hogmanay in the Deep South . |
| 2 | Although I was at art school for four years , I was hardly ever there , I always worked at home . |
| 3 | Although I was in pain I was conscious and can remember seeing Callanish itself . |
| 4 | ‘ No , it 'll be a night out I would guess , although I 'm for home myself first , to get some shuteye . |
| 5 | My one real consolation in the face of almost any betrayal or grief is that I am without doubt an extremely talented writer , come danger or candle stump . |
| 6 | It was a fight but now that I am at college you can believe I am the happiest girl around here . |
| 7 | ‘ It is not that I am in favour of it , it is what is happening . |
| 8 | But I now realise that I , too , have been a whore , now that I am in love . |
| 9 | The line can be read : It is true that I am in love and wish to reveal this love in poetry . |
| 10 | My belief that I am in pain may be justified , perhaps , but I can hardly be said to base it on reasons , conclusive or otherwise . |
| 11 | To say " I am in pain " is not to enunciate the knowledge of the proposition that I am in pain . |
| 12 | With a new class I want the pupils to feel that I am in control and that I know what I 'm doing . |
| 13 | He says that I am in collaboration with them in a swindle against Iran . |
| 14 | Is she really like like isolated now that I 'm at boarding school really |
| 15 | Because I 'll have you know that I 'm on strike . |
| 16 | He knows , as you do , that I 'm in love with Andrew . |
| 17 | She does n't care who I marry , only that I 'm in love . |
| 18 | And that I 'm in love with him or something ! |
| 19 | I think that I 'm in control , that controlling what I eat will control what I weigh , will control who I turn into . |
| 20 | I know what I 'm doing , I know it 's self-destructive and dangerous , but because I 'm not quite as terrifyingly thin as she was , I 'm able to convince myself that I 'm in control , and continue with my exercising mania . |
| 21 | I could think that I was at school again , lying in the long grass waiting to bat , or walking over Berkshire downs or along a Devon valley . |
| 22 | ‘ I rather think ’ Mr Nightingale said ‘ that I was at school with your uncle C. A. Harbinger . |
| 23 | At this airport the pottery was the same , but it was placed so high up the wall that I was on tiptoe and firing upwards . |
| 24 | I believe her , I trust her and I was not bewitched by her green eyes , owing to the fact that I was on duty at the time . ’ |
| 25 | I never gave in , but within weeks the networks were buzzing with the news that I was into censorship and as bad as Mary Whitehouse . |
| 26 | Perhaps it was despair that made me believe there was one person in the world who might know that I was in despair . |
| 27 | We had tea and discussed everything except the two things that interested me : the fact that I was in love with her daughter , and the fact that her husband had run off with a schoolgirl . |
| 28 | " It was n't that I was in love with him , you know , " she said , from time to time , as chorus to her main argument , " it was n't as though I was in love with him , you know . " |
| 29 | Mum guessed there was something and in the end I told her that I was in love with a married man . |
| 30 | Surely you always knew that I was in love with you ? ’ |