Example sentences of "[conj] i be [verb] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know this because these machines have a high curiosity factor with guitarists , and although I 'm used to my GR-50 , many players who have been eager to try it have fallen foul of mis-tracking . |
| 2 | It is with great dismay that I am writing to you following the presentation of the Editing for Industry awards in Torquay . |
| 3 | Erm , current speaker will next speaker by name , so when I speak to you and I call your name , you know that I am talking to you . |
| 4 | And very swiftly from that I 'm going to I 'm going to move to your part of the world Fred , I 'm going to go to Preston in Lancashire . |
| 5 | I 'm not , I 'm not I 'm not putting it on you anyway mostly it 's c mainly fucking Catherine , I 'm beginning to s not like her any more the way she 's going and do n't you dare mention a word of this that I 'm saying to you |
| 6 | In Joshua chapter one , in verses two and three , Moses my servant is dead now therefore arise , cross this Jordan , you and all his people to the land that I 'm giving to them , to the sons of Israel . |
| 7 | Stopping to ask a local woman where I might find Dr Mareda , I discovered that I was speaking to his companion , Vera , and that I had stopped outside their front door . |
| 8 | ‘ That I was posted to your staff because you asked for me . |
| 9 | I I would not go out there on to their property without letting them have knowledge that I was coming to their property . |
| 10 | Yesterday evening , for instance , I realized that I was smiling to myself ( I was thinking about writing this minute ! ) and it set off a substantial debate , conducted entirely in silence . |
| 11 | He had my old measurements and I apologised for all that I was doing to his calculations . |
| 12 | He mentioned then a touring display on the poet Hugh MacDiarmid , and I am writing to you now with some more information on the display . |
| 13 | Burglar — Well , that 's my storey and I 'm sticking to it ! |
| 14 | MARK ‘ HUBBA HUBBA ’ CASWELL denies ever playing one in his life ( that 's my story and I 'm sticking to it — Corky ) , but he volunteered for this job quickly enough … |
| 15 | And I 'm trying to I 've tried without success . |
| 16 | And I 'm thinking to myself about all these songs related to walking . |
| 17 | And of course , when this all happened , and I 'm listening to what people are saying tonight , it 's it 's sort of making me feel a bit sick what they 're saying . |
| 18 | And you do n't realize that you are lost , and not only that , but you are griping when those who realize their condition call out to me and I 'm reaching to them and rescuing them , you are griping at that ! |
| 19 | ‘ That 's my story , and I 'm keeping to it . ’ |
| 20 | that 's right he says this is Mark , he says come in here a minute , says will you move your car and he says no I wo n't move my car , he says this is a public area and my car is parked there I 've been , been into the shop and I 'm talking to my mates . |
| 21 | We will be reserving our rights and I 'm talking to our legal people in the US . |
| 22 | Well if you 're all the way over there and I 'm talking to you I can hear my voice more . |
| 23 | I went and got last night and I 'm saying to him , now give me your numbers . |
| 24 | it was chicken pox and I 'm saying to myself it 's very infectious . |
| 25 | Oh dear , and I 'm saying to myself it was chicken pox |
| 26 | erm , so I could n't carry the wallpaper so the lass says well you ca n't carry it , she says I 'll phone you a taxi , I says okay , so she phoned this , she says any , any particular one , I says I 'll have that one beside us like so phoned association , they 'll be erm , you , you know call up and they came and er pick me up and brought us back with the paper , he charged one pound twenty and I 'm saying to myself one pound twenty , that 's a damn disgrace , by hell I 'll not get that taxi again |
| 27 | Because it , it 's , it 's not particularly going to grab me because I 'm going to look at it and I 'm going to I 'm going to look down to see what it 's asking me do and certainly a busy news editor is looking down the line to see , and the first thing he 'll actually do is , is just have a , a very fast glance at it , find out what it 's about , and just make sure there 's someone who can be phoned , and what the news editor will do is actually throw it out into a pile of other handouts and there 's usually a journalist who 's , who 's who 's won first prize and their task for the day is to do all the handouts , and all you want to be sure of is that someone can make a phone call and the news editor wo n't , wo n't bother with any with any superfluous detail , all he 'd want to know is that somebody can be contacted , we 'll find out about it later . |
| 28 | It 's as if that bright warm light has left the room , but the air is still full of her presence and I 'm smiling to myself while I fiddle with the bed . |
| 29 | Floy said , slowly , ‘ If Snodgrass and I were to agree to it — ’ He stopped and Caspar said , ‘ Yes ? ’ |
| 30 | I went to erm the guy I work with is a Belgian and I was invited to his birthday party . |