Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [v-ing] [verb] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not work as a scribe , and I am beginning to enjoy being free . |
| 2 | ‘ I suppose what I 'm trying to say is that … |
| 3 | What I 'm trying to say is that yo , i now you got ta order another to , forty six . |
| 4 | yeah , what I 'm trying to say is that , that the Germans , on one German captured about four hundred blokes |
| 5 | but basically what , what , what I 'm trying to say is that erm , you know , it 's nineteen twenty seven , the world depression has n't happened yet erm and he 's assuming that you know , well you , you just said downtrodden masses for thousands of years I 'd say , you know , balls to that |
| 6 | The issue , the point I 'm trying to make is that in talking for all of the bodies , whether I 'm talking about for the council or whether I 'm talking about them at the same time or separately , one thing I 'm not doing is talking from my point of view . |
| 7 | No , the point I 'm trying to make is this : everyone else around here has changed their name . |
| 8 | ‘ What I want and what I 'm going to get are two very different things . ’ |
| 9 | The point I 'm going to make is that erm , if we are n't going to get through the year and we 're all going to have to take a percentage of our March allowances because the money 's run out and we 're cash limited even if we give ourselves five percent extra , erm , could I get an assurance from the officers that the people that have n't put in their forms will get a note to remind them to do so , so that everybody is in there , you wo n't suddenly find that because you have n't had your claim form in by the fourteenth you 're gon na get nothing and everybody else is gon na get something . |
| 10 | So as far as the actual topics I 'm going to cover are concerned , erm can everybody see . |
| 11 | Something had changed , because I had suddenly realised that what I was trying to do was impossible . |
| 12 | ( No doubt what I was squinting to comprehend were various distortions of the human foetus . ) |
| 13 | What I was going to get was another matter again . |
| 14 | but it is the case that twenty two per cent of crimes are committed by women , erm and I think that the situation with women committing crime is quite complex and complicated one , erm that really needs quite er , a great detail of discussion , and one of the , the points I was going to make was this question of feeling guilty |
| 15 | With a high sense not only of justice but of dramatic effect he informed the judge that the only courses open to him were ‘ either to resign your post , or inflict on me the severest penalty if you believe that the system and law you are assisting to administer are good for the people ’ . |
| 16 | Learning thoroughly the piece which you are going to do is important . |
| 17 | And the investigations she is proposing to undertake are eccentric even by the standards of visiting academics . |
| 18 | They were things both of them had sacrificed to this relationship which she was beginning to understand was destructive to both of them . |
| 19 | ‘ What we were beginning to miss was that quality of life that we should have had , ’ he says . |
| 20 | Dr Rolleston was retiring quietly to let a younger man prepare for what we were beginning to think was inevitable . |
| 21 | Well we we I was saying to dad , I mean , this one that we were going to get was three sixty . |
| 22 | The cost that they were having to bear were greater than what they were actually getting back on the sale of this stuff . |
| 23 | Someone would have to tell Christopher Court , MP , that the woman he was expecting to marry was dead . |