Example sentences of "i be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I think that a few words from me are called for , as you say . ’ |
| 2 | The advantages that skill and intelligence once gave me are nullified by shop bought electronics and an ’ Ever Ready ’ Power Pack . |
| 3 | With the threat of relegation looming again , the loss of the ground , and the millstone around my neck of a team of asthmatic pine martens with the collective brain power of a kiwi fruit , the pressures on me are building to a frightening pitch . |
| 4 | Dolores O'Riordan and three other blokes and me are sitting in a van that 's parked in a yard behind Charlie 's Bar where later on The Cranberries will bring tears to the eyes of grown men and ensure that all present can say ‘ yes ’ when asked if their weekend was happy and filled with nice things . |
| 5 | The grass and reeds around me are flattened under the sudden , overnight fall of snow . |
| 6 | Lurking in unfamiliar corners of your class-divided towns , men like me are gon na smash your fortunate houses down . |
| 7 | Mummy me are gon na go in there |
| 8 | Oh mum me do it , me are gon na do that and that in a minute |
| 9 | Dad erm her and are gon na go there and you and me are gon na |
| 10 | ‘ Nowhere have I been presented with so many extraordinary opportunities for startlingly fresh and original material for radio , ’ he says of Greenland , where he borrows a cassette and goes out recording ‘ wild track ’ ( a technical term that he expects us to know , meaning the sound background you hear when the broadcaster mercifully shuts up . ) |
| 11 | But will I been seen as a museum piece by some ? |
| 12 | ‘ Not only have I been separated from my wife for the past five years — but in all that time I 've only once managed to make love to her . |
| 13 | Had I been sent for much earlier I would have tried to turn the baby — but now … it 's too late . |
| 14 | What have I been criticized for at work ? |
| 15 | Why have I been treated in such a cowardly and despicable manner ? ’ |
| 16 | This one er what 's , what 's going on , he said well what I been called for |
| 17 | Had I been called upon to exercise my discretion , I would have given particular consideration to the great disturbance that I have found the residents suffer . |
| 18 | Had I been born in the Middle Ages , I knew that I would have been one of those retainers who stayed inside the castle and embroidered whilst the knights went off to slaughter the French . |
| 19 | Have I been reduced in size ? |
| 20 | This is where I been going to . |
| 21 | Had I been allowed to puddle around on my own , people today might curl their lips at Faldo 's approach . |
| 22 | What have I been praised for at work ? |
| 23 | Had I been infected by my owl ? |
| 24 | It were bad where erm Have I been talking in that thing all time ? |
| 25 | Had I been told at his birth that he was not ‘ normal ’ I would probably have hoped he would have died before being taken home from hospital . |
| 26 | ‘ I am the mother of a spastic child but had I been told before his birth that my son would be handicapped I would have asked for an abortion . |
| 27 | I reckon I should nearly be home by now — I been walking for ages . |
| 28 | I reckon I been walking for hours now . |
| 29 | And proud too , cos blimey , I been walking for ages and when I get back home she 'll think I been real clever to find my own way back , and I ai n't got a yellow card or nothing . |
| 30 | This should not suggest that my wife and I are cut from the American kind of Anglophilic chintz that may of you like to poke fun at . |